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REMEMBER, these comments do not necessarily reflect the opinion site's management. &lt;br&gt;Mail your comments to soapbox@stolen-jokes.com</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://soapbox.stolen-jokes.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soapbox.stolen-jokes.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8834494462118260385/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>Tom Evans</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06621977470165427715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>51</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/SjSoapBox" /><feedburner:info uri="sjsoapbox" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DE4MQX48eCp7ImA9WxFWFUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8834494462118260385.post-5680558535416618015</id><published>2010-06-02T17:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-02T17:16:20.070-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-06-02T17:16:20.070-05:00</app:edited><title>To Think We Can Change the Earth</title><content type="html">For all of you out there in America and across the globe who have fought so hard to tackle the hideous enemy of our planet, namely carbon emissions, that bogus god you worship named "Climate Change" or "Global Warming",  there is some really bad news that will be very painful for you to process. But it is my duty to pass it on to you anyway. &lt;br /&gt;Are you sitting down?&lt;br /&gt;Okay, here's the bombshell. The current volcanic eruption going on in Iceland, since it first started spewing volcanic ash a week ago, has, to this point, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet.  Not only that, this single act of God has added emissions to the earth estimated to be 42 times more than can be corrected by the extreme human regulations proposed for annual reductions.&lt;br /&gt;I know, I know.... (have a group hug)...it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving fusion hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up 'til midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, going on vacation to a city park instead of Yosemite, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your $1 light bulbs with $10 light bulbs ...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just the past week.&lt;br /&gt;The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in the past week has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon.  And, those hundreds of thousands of American jobs you helped move to Asia with expensive emissions demands on businesses... you know, the ones that are creating even more emissions than when they were creating American jobs, well that must seem really worthwhile now.&lt;br /&gt;I'm so sorry. And I do wish that there was some kind of a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the brush fire season across the western U.S.A. will start in about two months and those fires will negate your efforts to reduce carbon emissions in our world for the next two years.&lt;br /&gt;So, grab a Coke, give the world a hug, and have a nice day!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-5680558535416618015?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.&lt;br /&gt;Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) 'The US, UK  , CANADA and  AUSTRALIA  will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past &amp; present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany,  South Korea, the Middle East, and the  Philippines. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders.  No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are from. They're illegal!!!  France  will welcome them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in.  If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here.  Asylum would never be available to anyone.  We don't need any more 7-11 cashiers or cab drivers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers..  If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home, baby. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) The US, UK , CANADA and  AUSTRALIA  will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise.  This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness.  The caribou will have to cope for a while. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7) Offer  Saudi Arabia  and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil.  If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.'  They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9) Ship the UN  Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here.  Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer.  The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The Statue of  Liberty  is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' '&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-1253246312431693825?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I just have something against criminals and anybody who comes into this country illegally is a criminal &lt;br /&gt; and if you don't believe it try coming into America from a foreign country without a passport and see how far you get. What disturbs me about the demonstrations is that it's tanta-mount to saying, "I am going to come into your country even if it means breaking your laws and there's nothing you can do about it." &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It's an "in your face" action and speaking just for me, I don't like it one little bit and if there were a half dozen pairs of gonads in Washington bigger than English peas it wouldn't be happening. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Where are you, you bunch of lily livered, pantywaist, forked tongued, sorry excuses for defenders of The Constitution? Have you been drinking the water out of the Potomac again?&lt;br /&gt; And even if you pass a bill on immigration it will probably be so pork laden and watered down that it won't mean anything anyway Besides, what good is another law going to do when you &lt;br /&gt; won't enforce the ones on the books now?  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And what ever happened to the polls, guys?  I thought you folks were the quintessential finger wetters.  Well you sure ain't paying any attention to the polls this time because somewhere around eighty percent of Americans want some thing done about this mess, and mess it is and getting bigger everyday.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This is no longer a problem, it is a dilemma and headed for being a tragedy.  Do you honestly think that what happened in France with the Muslims can't happen here when the businesses who hire these people finally run out of jobs and a few million disillusioned Hispanics take to the streets?  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you, Mr. President, Congressmen and Senators, knuckle under on this and refuse to do something meaningful it means that you care nothing for the kind of country your children and grand-children will inherit.  But I guess that doesn't matter as long as you get re-elected. &lt;br /&gt; Shame on you.  &lt;br /&gt; One of the big problems in America today is that if you have the nerve to say anything derogatory about any group of people (except Christians) you are going to be screamed at by the media and called a racist, a bigot and anything else they can think of to call you  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Well I've been pounded by the media before and I'm still rockin' and rollin' and when it comes to speaking the truth I fear not.  &lt;br /&gt; And the truth is that the gutless, gonadless, milksop politicians are just about to sell out the United States of America because they don't have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to face reality.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And reality is that we would never allow any other group of people to have 12 million illegal in this country and turn around and say, "Oh it's ok, ya'll can stay here if you'll just allow us to slap your wrist." &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And I know that some of you who read this column are saying "Well what's wrong with that?"  &lt;br /&gt; I'll tell you what's wrong with it.  These people could be from Mars as far as we know.  We don't know who they are, where they are or what they're up to and the way the Congress is going we're not going to.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Does this make sense?  Labor force you say?  We already subsidize corporate agriculture as it is, must we subsidize their labor as well?  &lt;br /&gt; If these people were from Haiti would we be so fast to turn a blind eye to them or if they were from Somalia or Afghanistan ?  &lt;br /&gt; I think not.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; All the media shows us are pictures of hard working Hispanics who have crossed the border just to try to better their life.  &lt;br /&gt; They don't show you pictures of the Feds rounding up members of MS 13, the violent gang who came across the same way the decent folks did.  They don't tell you about the living conditions of the Mexican illegal some fat cat hired to pick his crop.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I want to make two predictions.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; No. 1: This situation is going to grow and fester until it erupts in violence on our streets while the wimps in Washington drag their toes in the dirt and try to figure how many tons of political hay they can make to the acre.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; No 2: Somebody is going to cross that border with some kind of weapon of mass destruction and set it off in a major American city after which there will be a backlash such as this country has never experienced and the Capitol building in Washington will probably tilt as Congressmen and Senators rush to the other side of the issue.   &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;I don't know about you but I would love to see just one major politician stand up and say, "I don't care who I make mad  and I don't care how many votes I lose, this is a desperate situation and I'm going to lead the fight to get it straightened out."  &lt;br /&gt; I don't blame anybody for wanting to come to America , but if you don't respect our immigration laws why should you respect any others?    &lt;br /&gt; And by the way, this is America and our flag has stars and stripes  Please get that other one out of my face.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God Bless America &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Charlie Daniels&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-4275452955725812624?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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A. Times &lt;br /&gt;1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County  has 10.2 million&lt;br /&gt;people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. &lt;br /&gt;   This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without&lt;br /&gt;a green card.&lt;br /&gt;2.  95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.&lt;br /&gt;3..  75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal&lt;br /&gt;aliens.  &lt;br /&gt;4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien&lt;br /&gt;Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.&lt;br /&gt;5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican&lt;br /&gt;nationals here illegally.&lt;br /&gt;6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in   Los Angeles County are living in&lt;br /&gt;garages.&lt;br /&gt;7... The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely&lt;br /&gt;illegal aliens from south of the border.&lt;br /&gt;8 Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.&lt;br /&gt;9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.&lt;br /&gt;10. In L.. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak&lt;br /&gt;Spanish.. (There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County .)&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;(All 10 of the above facts were published in the Los Angeles Times) &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on&lt;br /&gt;welfare. Over 70% of the   United States ' annual population growth(and over&lt;br /&gt;90% of California , Florida , and New York ) results from immigration. 29%&lt;br /&gt;of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens .  &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;We are fools for letting this continue  &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;HOW CAN YOU HELP ?&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;Send copies of this letter to at least two other people.  100 would  be&lt;br /&gt;even better.&lt;br /&gt;This  is only one State................&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;If this doesn't open your eyes nothing will, and you wonder why Nancy Pelosi&lt;br /&gt;wants them to become voters!&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;************************************* &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;LET'S IMPEACH HER NOW BEFORE SHE DOES FURTHER DAMAGE!!  WHAT AN IDIOT!!&lt;br /&gt;IF YOU DON'T AGREE JUST DELETE--IF YOU DO--PASS IT ON!!  WHERE DO WE GET&lt;br /&gt;THESE MORONS? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Windfall Tax on Retirement Income &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the&lt;br /&gt;American people, you're so darn stupid that we're going to keep doing this&lt;br /&gt;until we drain every cent from you. That's what the Speaker of the House is&lt;br /&gt;saying. Read below...............&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income.  In other words tax&lt;br /&gt;what you have made by investing toward your retirement.. This woman is a nut&lt;br /&gt;case! You aren't going to believe this.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market&lt;br /&gt;profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alas, it is true - all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other&lt;br /&gt;unemployed Minorities!&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;This woman is frightening.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;She quotes...' We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't&lt;br /&gt;Marx say something like this?), in our country and at the same time limiting&lt;br /&gt;the amount the rich can invest.'  (I am not rich, are you?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and&lt;br /&gt;minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants&lt;br /&gt;in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed&lt;br /&gt;minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to&lt;br /&gt;guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as&lt;br /&gt;'Americans'.'   &lt;br /&gt;(Read that quote again and again and let it sink in.)  'Lower your&lt;br /&gt;retirement, give it to others who have not worked as you have for it'.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Send it on to your friends. I just did!! This lady is out of her mind and&lt;br /&gt;she is the speaker of the house!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-7711933890893050901?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Hall</title><content type="html">I'm 63.  Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes."  Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told how bad  America  is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities  America  offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States  will have the economy of  Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of   China , the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of   Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln  wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News?  Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let  Saudi Arabia  use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in  America , while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in  Saudi Arabia  to teach love and tolerance.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a  three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next?  Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"?  And, no,  I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion.  I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military.... Those are the citizens we need.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war?  You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave?  Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are?  Not even close.  So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in  Illinois , where the "Illinois Combine" of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Robert  A. Hall is a Marine  Vietnam  veteran who served five terms in the  Massachusetts   State  Senate.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-7924635037176179711?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the&amp;nbsp;Democratic Party&amp;nbsp;represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the&amp;nbsp;Republican Party&amp;nbsp;represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel&amp;nbsp; any&amp;nbsp;political party or representative in&amp;nbsp; Washington &amp;nbsp;represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Instead, we are burdened with Congressional Dukes and Duchesses who think they know better than the citizens they are supposed to represent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight: normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're&amp;nbsp; willing to fight for our&amp;nbsp;Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would feel so horribly disenfranchised by both&amp;nbsp;major political parties. What kind of nut-job am I? Well, these briefly are the views and issues for which I seek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font color=blue face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue;font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;representation:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;One,&amp;nbsp; illegal immigration.&amp;nbsp;I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and&amp;nbsp; secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels.. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution.&amp;nbsp;&lt;font color=blue&gt;&lt;span style='color:blue'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;&amp;nbsp;P.S., I'm not a racist. This is not to be confused with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;&amp;nbsp;legal&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;immigration.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;Two, the STIMULUS bill.&amp;nbsp;I want it&amp;nbsp; repealed&amp;nbsp;and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you No, but you did it anyway... I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;Three: Czars.&amp;nbsp;I want the circumvention of our&amp;nbsp; constitutional&amp;nbsp;checks and balances&amp;nbsp;stopped immediately.&amp;nbsp; Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution, and honor it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;Four, cap and trade.&amp;nbsp;The debate on&amp;nbsp;global warming&amp;nbsp;is not over. There are many conflicting opinions and it is too soon for this radical legislation. Quit&amp;nbsp;throwing our nation&amp;nbsp;into politically-correct quicksand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision that will burden me, my children, and grandchildren.&amp;nbsp; Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night without even reading it.&amp;nbsp;Slow down!&amp;nbsp; Fix only what is broken -- we have the best health care system in the world -- and test any new program in one or two states first.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;Six, growing government control.&amp;nbsp;I want&amp;nbsp; states rights&amp;nbsp;and sovereignty&lt;font color=blue&gt;&lt;span style='color:blue'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;fully restored.&amp;nbsp; I want less government in my life, not more. More is not better!&amp;nbsp;Shrink it down. Mind your own business.&amp;nbsp; You have enough to take care of with your real [Constitutional] obligations. Why don't you start there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census.&amp;nbsp;I want them investigated.&amp;nbsp; I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes&amp;nbsp;-- how did they pull that one off?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates&amp;nbsp;pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census with our taxpayer money. I don't trust the! m with a my of our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them.&amp;nbsp; If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies.&amp;nbsp; You work for us, the people. Investigate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;Eight, redistribution of wealth.&amp;nbsp;No, no, no. I work for my money.&amp;nbsp; It is mine..&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs&amp;nbsp;-- and that is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person! Why do you want me to hate my employers? And what do you have against shareholders making a profit?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;Nine, charitable contributions.&amp;nbsp;Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources.&amp;nbsp; Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;Ten, corporate bailouts.&amp;nbsp;Knock it off. Every company must sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. (Have you ever ripped off a Band-Aid?) We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;Eleven, transparency and accountability.&amp;nbsp;How about it? No, really, how about it?&amp;nbsp; Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk.. Please stop trying to manipulate and&amp;nbsp;appease me with clever wording.. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for.&amp;nbsp; Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;Twelve, unprecedented quick spending.&amp;nbsp; Stop it now&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;Take a breath.&amp;nbsp; Listen to the people. Slow down and get some input from nonpoliticians and experts on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed-reading our bills into law. I am not an activist.. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person.! I am a parent and a grandparent.. I work. I'm busy.&amp;nbsp; I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business&amp;nbsp;of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;I entrusted you with&amp;nbsp; upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened?&amp;nbsp;You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face.&amp;nbsp; I am not laughing at your&amp;nbsp; arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children.&amp;nbsp; We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could.&amp;nbsp;I am sure that we still cannot. There is needless urgency and recklessness in all of your recent spending of&amp;nbsp; our&amp;nbsp;tax dollars.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'&gt;From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane.. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans?&amp;nbsp; We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back.&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style='background:yellow'&gt;You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that&amp;nbsp; you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on bringing our concerns to Washington .&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Our president often knows all the right buzzwords like unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words.&amp;nbsp; Stop treating us like we're morons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and&amp;nbsp; do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done.&amp;nbsp; You work for us&amp;nbsp;and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented.. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you?&amp;nbsp; We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work, pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone... and we are now looking&amp;nbsp;at you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;You have awakened us, the patriotic freedom spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long.&amp;nbsp; You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you.&amp;nbsp;For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured.&amp;nbsp; They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will&amp;nbsp; represent us&amp;nbsp;or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us who will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this.. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us&amp;nbsp; Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our&amp;nbsp; Constitution, and that is all that matters to us now.&amp;nbsp; We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power.&amp;nbsp; It is ours&amp;nbsp;and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it.&amp;nbsp; You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear?&amp;nbsp;We no longer care about your political parties.&amp;nbsp; You need to be loyal to us, not to them.. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font color=blue face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue;font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;&amp;nbsp;We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font color=blue face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue;font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'&gt;&lt;font size=3 face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'&gt;&amp;nbsp;Listen. Because we are coming.&amp;nbsp;We the people&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp; are coming.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-7712703513038340445?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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He is                 still stateside, here in    California  ..... He                 called me yesterday to let me  know how warm and welcoming                 people were to him and his  troops everywhere he goes,                 telling me how people shake  their hands and thank them                 for being willing to serve  and fight for not only our own                  freedoms,  but  so that others may have                 them  also. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                &lt;span style=""&gt;But  he also told                 me about an incident in the grocery store  he stopped at                 yesterday on his way home from the base.  He said that                 ahead of several people in front of him  stood a woman                 dressed in a  burkha. &lt;br /&gt;                He  said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked                  about the &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;U.S. flag                  lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier                  reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly, 'Yes,                  I always wear it and probably always                  will.' &lt;br /&gt;               &lt;br /&gt;                The woman in the burkha then  asked the cashier when she                 was going to stop bombing her  countrymen, explaining that                 she was  Iraqi. &lt;br /&gt;               &lt;br /&gt;                A gentleman standing behind my  son stepped   forward.  Putting                  his arm around my son's shoulders and nodding towards my                  son, he said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi                  woman:  'Lady,  hundreds of thousands of                 men and women like this young  man have fought and died so                 that YOU could stand here,  in MY country and accuse a                 check-out cashier of bombing  YOUR countrymen. It is my                 belief that had you been this  outspoken in YOUR own                 country, we wouldn't need to be  there today. But, hey, if                 you have now learned how to  speak out so loudly and                 clearly, I'll gladly buy you a  ticket and pay your way back                 to Iraq so you can  straighten out the mess in YOUR                 country that you are  obviously here in MY country to                 avoid. Everyone  within hearing distance   cheered! &lt;br /&gt;               &lt;br /&gt;                IF  YOU  AGREE____ Pass this on to all your proud                 American  friends.&lt;br /&gt;                &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;      &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;                I  just did......HELL YEAH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  &lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                 &lt;/div&gt;                 &lt;/div&gt;                 &lt;/div&gt;                 &lt;/div&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;                &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;               &lt;/td&gt;              &lt;/tr&gt;             &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;                                                                                    &lt;/td&gt;            &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style=""&gt;             &lt;td style="padding: 0in; width: 100%;" width="100%"&gt;             &lt;table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 100%;" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;              &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style=""&gt;               &lt;td style="padding: 0in; width: 100%;" width="100%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;td style="padding: 0in;" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;              &lt;/tr&gt;             &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;             &lt;/td&gt;            &lt;/tr&gt;           &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;          &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;                    &lt;tr style=""&gt;           &lt;td style="padding: 1.5pt; width: 100%;" id="ecxecxecxINCREDIFOOTER" width="100%"&gt;           &lt;table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 100%;" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;            &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style=""&gt;             &lt;td style="padding: 0in; width: 100%;" width="100%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td style="padding: 0in;" id="ecxecxecxINCREDISOUND" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;/tr&gt;           &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;           &lt;/td&gt;          &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;        &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;      &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;           &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;    &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;       &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;       &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-2618232250642254356?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The first phase of the 2010         U.S. Census is under way as workers have begun verifying the addresses         of households across the country. Eventually, more than 140,000 U.S.         Census workers will count every person in the United         States and will gather information about every person living at         each address including name, age, gender, race, and other relevant         data.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;The         big question is - how do you tell the difference between a U.S. Census         worker and a con artist? BBB offers the following advice:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;**&lt;span style="background: rgb(191, 223, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"&gt; If a U.S. Census worker knocks on your         door, they will have a badge, a handheld device, a Census Bureau canvas         bag, and a confidentiality notice. Ask to see their identification and         their badge before answering their questions.  However, you should         never invite anyone you don't know into your home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;        ** &lt;span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 128) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"&gt;Census workers are currently         only knocking on doors to verify address information&lt;/span&gt;.  &lt;span style="background: rgb(255, 191, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"&gt;Do not give your Social Security number,         credit card or banking information to anyone, even if they claim they         need it for the U.S. . Census.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 128) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;REMEMBER, NO MATTER WHAT THEY ASK, YOU REALLY ONLY         NEED TO TELL THEM HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE AT YOUR  ADDRESS..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;While         the Census Bureau might ask for basic financial information, such as a         salary range, &lt;span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 128) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"&gt;YOU DON'T HAVE TO         ANSWER ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT YOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION&lt;/span&gt;.  &lt;span style="background: rgb(255, 191, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"&gt;The Census Bureau will not ask for Social         Security, bank account, or credit card numbers, nor will employees         solicit donations.  Any one asking for that information is NOT         with the Census Bureau&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;        AND REMEMBER, THE CENSUS BUREAU HAS DECIDED NOT TO WORK WITH ACORN ON GATHERING         THIS INFORMATION..  No Acorn worker should approach you saying         he/she is with the Census Bureau.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;Eventually,         Census workers may contact you by telephone, mail, or in person at         home. However, the &lt;span style="background: rgb(255, 191, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"&gt;Census Bureau         will not contact you by Email, so be on the lookout for Email scams         impersonating the Census.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 128) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;Never click on a link or open any attachments in an         Email that  are supposedly from the U.S. Census Bureau.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;PLEASE         SHARE THIS INFO WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;div style="margin-left: 3.75pt;"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;         &lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;       &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;      &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;     &lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/blockquote&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10pt;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-3013116126794833371?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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This             totally &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:blue;"  &gt;non-partisan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt; poll asks but one question.  The question             is stated very simply... and, to the point.  No tricks. No             hidden messages.  No nothing. JUST A SINGLE, SIMPLE             QUESTION.  I don't know why this hasn't been done before.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;             &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;I'm  impressed with the fact that the question is             NOT "phrased" in a way that it can be interpreted             later...to fit someone else's desired answer.   &lt;a href="http://js.polls.yahoo.com/quiz/quiziframe.php?poll_id=46067" target="_blank" title="http://js.polls.yahoo.com/quiz/quiziframe.php?poll_id=46067"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color:#2a5db0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); font-weight: bold;"&gt;http://js.polls.yahoo.com/quiz/quiziframe.php?poll_id=46067&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;             &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;NOTE: After you vote, you will see a second page that             shows the running total and what these voters opinions are.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;             &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;Then pass it on..so others may cast their vote.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;             &lt;/td&gt;            &lt;/tr&gt;           &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;           &lt;/td&gt;          &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;         &lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;       &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;      &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;     &lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-2691914969225800478?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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With that thought in mind, read the following:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:7;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good idea ... one light bulb at a time . . . ..&lt;br /&gt;Check this out I can verify this because I was in Lowe's the other day for some reason and just for the heck of it I was looking at the hose attachments . They were all made in China The next day I was in Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose&lt;br /&gt;attachments there. They were made in USA . Start looking ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;color:black;"&gt;In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else - even their job . So, after reading this email, I think this lady is on the right track . Let's get behind her!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;color:black;"&gt;My grandson likes Hershey's candy . I noticed, though, that it is marked made in Mexico now.. I do not buy it any more.&lt;br /&gt;My favorite toothpaste Colgate is made in Mexico ... now I have switched to Crest. You have to read the labels on everything ..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;color:black;"&gt;This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60 W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets . I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off-brand labeled, "Everyday Value . " I picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats -&lt;br /&gt;they were the same except for the price .. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this - the USA in&lt;br /&gt;a company in Cleveland , Ohio .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;color:black;"&gt;So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that are made right here ..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;color:black;"&gt;So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets . .. . yep, you guessed it, bounce cost more money and is made in Canada . The Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA ! I did laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"&gt;for years and at almost half the price!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;color:black;"&gt;My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA - the job you save may be your own or your neighbors!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;color:black;"&gt;If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address book so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time! Stop buying from overseas companies!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;color:black;"&gt;(We should have awakened a decade ago .. . .. . . . )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;color:black;"&gt;Let's get with the program . . . .. help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the U . S . A ..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;color:black;"&gt;I Passed this on ......... will you ???????&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-5338510022159924443?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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By Ben Stein&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;socialized medicine bill&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;passed?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; 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BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;being touted as a scholar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why were we duped, you ask? Because it is in the character and personality of an ego-centered Narcissist to be believed. They accept no contrary opinions. They have a 100% conviction in their own opinion and beliefs. They typically are well spoken and have a certain amount of charisma.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:navy;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;They are adept at twisting and spinning any thought into their own mold. He rallied much of the non-Caucasian and youth vote. Why? Because he preached change. This element of voters either feel they needed change, or in the case of the young voters, they didnt have enough experience to fully understand change from and to what but the charisma and rhetoric sold this load of poles.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;way, way too cozy with the terror ist leaders in the Middle East ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;way beyond naoveti, all the way into active destruction of our&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;interests and our allies and our future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;The American people have already awakened to the truth that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;all Americans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;can and cannot do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are perilous times.. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;Beverly Hills and Malibu . He writes "Ben Stein's Diary"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;"  &gt;for every issue of The American Spectator.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';color:blue;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:85%;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10;color:blue;"   &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-3330951145512337114?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Just wipe ordinary car wax on your headlights. It contains special water repellents that will prevent that messy mixture from accumulating on your lights - lasts 6 weeks. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Barrett;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;Squeak-proof your wipers with rubbing alcohol! Wipe the wipers with a cloth saturated with rubbing alcohol or ammonia. This one trick can make badly streaking &amp;amp; squeaking wipers change to near perfect silence &amp;amp; clarity. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Barrett;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;Ice-proof your windows with vinegar! Frost on it's way? Just fill a spray bottle with three parts vinegar to one part water &amp;amp; spritz it on all your windows at night. In the morning, they'll be clear of icy mess. Vinegar contains acetic acid, which raises the melting point of water---preventing water from freezing! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Barrett;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;Prevent car doors from freezing shut with cooking spray! Spritz cooking oil on the rubber seals around car doors &amp;amp; rub it in with a paper towel.  The cooking spray prevents water from melting into the rubber. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Barrett;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;Fog-proof your windshield with shaving cream! Spray some shaving cream on the inside of your windshield &amp;amp; wipe if off with paper towels. Shaving cream has many of the same ingredients found in commercial defoggers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Barrett;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;De-ice your lock in seconds with hand sanitizer! Just put some hand sanitizer gel on the key &amp;amp; the lock &amp;amp; the problems solved! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Barrett;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;Hope these hints help even just one time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:100%;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12pt;color:black;"   &gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-6065582476620740414?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Oklahoma did it anyway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;Oklahoma recently passed a law in the state to incarcerate all illegal immigrants, and ship them back to where they came from unless they want to get a green card and become an American citizen. &amp;nbsp;They all scattered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color="#000061" face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#000061'&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;HB 1804. &amp;nbsp;Hope we didn't send any of them to your state. &amp;nbsp;This was against the advice of the Federal Government, and the ACLU, they said &amp;nbsp;it would be a mistake. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Guess what............ Oklahoma did it anyway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;Recently we passed a law to include DNA samples from any and all &lt;span class=SpellE&gt;illegals&lt;/span&gt; to the Oklahoma database, for criminal investigative purposes. &amp;nbsp;Pelosi said it was unconstitutional.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color="#000061" face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#000061'&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;SB 1102&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Guess what......... Oklahoma &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;did it anyway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;Several weeks ago, we passed a law, declaring Oklahoma as a Sovereign state, not under the Federal Government directives. &amp;nbsp;Joining &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Texas , Montana and Utah as the only states to do so. &amp;nbsp;More states are likely to follow: &amp;nbsp;Louisiana, Al &lt;span class=SpellE&gt;abama&lt;/span&gt;, Georgia, the Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi, Florida. &amp;nbsp;Save your confederate money, it appears the South is about to rise up once again. &amp;nbsp;HJR 1003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;The federal Government has made bold steps to take away our guns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color="#000061" face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#000061'&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;Oklahoma, a week ago, passed a law confirming people in this state have the right to bear arms and transport them in their vehicles. &amp;nbsp;I'm sure that was a &lt;span class=SpellE&gt;set back&lt;/span&gt; for the criminals (and &lt;span class=SpellE&gt;Obamaites&lt;/span&gt;). Liberals didn't like it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color="#000061" face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#000061'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;--&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color="#000061" face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#000061'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;But .....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color="#000061" face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#000061'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color="#000061" face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#000061;font-weight:bold'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black; font-weight:bold'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Guess what............ Oklahoma did it anyway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;Just this month, my state has voted and passed a law that ALL driver's license exams will be printed in English, and only English, and no other language. &amp;nbsp;We have been called racist for doing this, but the fact is that ALL of our road signs are in English only. &amp;nbsp;If you want to drive in Oklahoma , you must read and write English. &amp;nbsp;Really simple.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;By the way, Obama does not like any of this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Guess what....who cares... 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WE THE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING.&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;WE'LL SEE YOU AT THE NEXT ELECTION.&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;For those who need a picture,&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;To the Congress:&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 - you have had 234 years to get it right; it is broke.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Social Security was established in 1935 - you have had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - you have had 71 years to get it right; it is broke.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;The &amp;quot;War on Poverty&amp;quot; started in 1964 - you have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to &amp;quot;the poor&amp;quot;; it hasn't worked and our entire country is broke.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - you've had 44 years to get it right; they are broke.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - you have had 39 years to get it right; it is broke.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the &amp;quot;Stimulus&amp;quot;, the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009... none show any signs of working, although ACORN appears to have found a new source: the American taxpayer.&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;And finally, to set a new record:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;quot;Cash for Clunkers&amp;quot; was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of the profits went out of the country. And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress' generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed experiments.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that &amp;quot;services&amp;quot; you shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;20% of our entire economy?&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;With all due respect,&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Are you crazy?&lt;br&gt; &lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; Please forward this to 20 people you know!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=4 color="#403152" face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#403152'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-6804490093194884741?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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He must&amp;nbsp;commit suicide if he does. So next&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'&gt;Saturday at 4 PM Eastern&amp;nbsp;Time, all American women are asked to walk out of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'&gt;their&amp;nbsp;house completely naked to help weed out any&amp;nbsp;neighborhood terrorists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'&gt;Circling your block for one hour is&amp;nbsp;recommended for this anti-terrorist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'&gt;effort.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; All patriotic men are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'&gt;to&amp;nbsp;position themselves in lawn chairs in front of their house to prove they&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'&gt;are not Muslims, and to demonstrate they think its okay to see nude women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'&gt;other than their wife, and to show support for all American women.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'&gt;Since Islam also does not approve of alcohol, a cold 6-pack at&amp;nbsp;your side is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'&gt;further proof of your anti-Muslim sentiment. The American government&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'&gt;appreciates your efforts to root out terrorists and applauds your&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'&gt;participation in this&amp;nbsp;anti-terrorist activity.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; God bless&amp;nbsp; America !&lt;br&gt; It is your patriotic duty to pass this on. If you&amp;nbsp;don't send this to at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'&gt;least 5 people you're a terrorist-sympathizing, lily-livered coward and are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'&gt;in&amp;nbsp;the position of posing as a national&amp;nbsp;threat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black face="Comic Sans MS"&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-3152603744096579008?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I meant that something was ridiculous, or idiotic or a half truth or just stupid. It covered any number of negative formats.. The dictionary defines it as: nonsense; especially : foolish insolent talk... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'&gt;I have decided that I no longer will use either of those expressions in the future. When I have a need to express such feelings, I will use the word &amp;quot;Pelosi&amp;quot;. Let me use it in a sentence; &amp;quot;That's a bunch of &amp;quot;Pelosi&amp;quot;. I encourage you to do the same. It is such a nasty sounding word, it really packs a punch, we are no longer being vulgar and it clearly expresses our feelings. If enough of us use it, perhaps the word could be entered into the dictionary. When on a ranch watch your step and don't step in &amp;quot;Pelosi.&amp;quot; It will get on the bottom of your boot and won't go away until next election...What a fitting and descriptive legacy for the Speaker of the House!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'&gt;PASS IT ON TO AT LEAST 10,000,000 PEOPLE OR YOUR HARRY REID WILL FALL OFF. DO NOT BREAK THIS CHAIN OR YOU'LL GET MORE &amp;quot;PELOSI&amp;quot; THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A BULL AT..........&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'&gt;Hey, that is kind of cool!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=4 color="#403152" face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#403152'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-6471249833584713226?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Their car was parked on the green which was adjacent to the football stadium and specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car included a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been prominently mounted on the dashboard. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;When the victims got home, they found that their house had been ransacked and just about everything worth anything had been stolen. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;The thieves had used the GPS to guide them to the house. They then used the garage remote control to open the garage door and gain entry to the house. The thieves knew the owners were at the football game, they knew what time the game was scheduled to finish and so they knew how much time they had to clean out the house. It would appear that they had brought a truck to empty the house of its contents. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;Something to consider if you have a GPS - don't put your home address in it. Put a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so you can still find your way home if you need to, but no one else would know where you live if your GPS were stolen. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;MOBILE PHONES &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;One woman has now changed her habit of how she lists her names on her mobile phone after her handbag was stolen containing her cell phone, credit cards, wallet, etc. 20 minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby says 'I received your text asking about our Pin number and I replied a little while ago.' &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text 'hubby' in the contact list and hubby sent back their Pin number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;Moral of the lesson: Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mom, etc.... &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked through texts, CONFIRM by calling back. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoPlainText&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=Consolas&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.5pt'&gt;When you receive text messages from friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you don't reach them, be very careful about going places to meet 'family and friends' who text you. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;font size=4 color="#403152" face=Arial&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#403152'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8834494462118260385-8735290565669577073?l=soapbox.stolen-jokes.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'&gt;Very interesting the University is standing by their professor and not bowing down to special interest groups!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color="#003399"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:#003399;font-weight:bold'&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wichman..asp" target="_blank" title="http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wichman..asp"&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wichman..asp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=6 color="#75b570" face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:24.0pt;color:#75B570;font-weight:bold'&gt;Professor &lt;span class=SpellE&gt;Wichman&lt;/span&gt; E-mail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;Claim:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color="#0000a0"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#0000A0;font-weight: bold'&gt;A&amp;nbsp; Michigan professor sent an e-mail telling Muslim students to leave the country..&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;Status:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style='font-style: italic'&gt;True.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named &lt;span class=SpellE&gt;Indrek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=SpellE&gt;Wichman&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;font size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;span class=SpellE&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight: bold'&gt;Wichman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt; sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;The group had complained the cartoons were 'hate speech'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;Enter Professor &lt;span class=SpellE&gt;Wichman&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;In his e-mail, he said the following:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;Dear Muslim Association,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests&amp;nbsp;(the latest in&amp;nbsp;Turkey), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in&amp;nbsp;Egypt, the imposition of &lt;span class=SpellE&gt;Sharia&lt;/span&gt; law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women&amp;nbsp;(called 'whores' in your culture), the murder of film directors in&amp;nbsp;Holland,&amp;nbsp;and the rioting and looting in Paris France.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many of my colleagues..I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Muslims to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile 'protests.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;If you do not like the values of the West - see the 1st Amendment - you are free to leave.. I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=navy&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold'&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;Cordially,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;I. S. &lt;span class=SpellE&gt;Wichman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;Professor of Mechanical Engineering&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;As you can imagine,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;the Muslim group at the university didn't like this too well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;They're demanding that &lt;span class=SpellE&gt;Wichman&lt;/span&gt; be reprimanded and the university impose mandatory diversity training for faculty.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;And mandate a seminar on hate and discrimination for all freshmen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;background:yellow;font-weight:bold'&gt;Now the local chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn't believe that the good professor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;had the right to express his opinion..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;For its part, the university is standing its ground in support of Professor &lt;span class=SpellE&gt;Wichman&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;saying the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his remarks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;Send this to your friends, and ask them to do the same.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;Tell them to keep passing it around until the whole country gets it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;background:yellow;font-weight:bold'&gt;We are in a war.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=5 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black;background:yellow;font-weight:bold'&gt;This political correctness crap is getting old and killing us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=ecxmsonormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'&gt;If you agree with this,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; 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Eventually, more than&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;140,000 U.S. Census workers will count every person in the U.S. and will&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;gather information about every person living at each address including&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;name, age, gender, race, and other relevant data.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;The big question is - how do you tell the difference between a U.S.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;Census worker and a con artist?&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;BBB offers the following advice:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;-If a U.S. Census worker knocks on your door, they will have a badge, a&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;handheld device, a Census Bureau canvas bag, and a confidentiality&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;notice.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;-Ask to see their identification and their badge before answering their&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;questions.&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;However, you should never invite anyone you do not know into&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;your home.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;-Census workers are currently only knocking on doors to verify address&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;information.&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp; 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&lt;/span&gt;The Census Bureau will not ask for Social&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;Security, bank account, or credit card numbers, nor will employees&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;solicit donations.&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Any one asking for that information is NOT with the&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;Census Bureau.&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;And remember, the Census Bureau has decided not to work&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;with Acorn on gathering this information.&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;No Acorn worker should&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;approach you saying he/she is with the Census Bureau.&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Eventually,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;Census workers may contact you by telephone, mail, or in person at home.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;However, the Census Bureau will not contact you by Email, so be on the&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;lookout for Email scams impersonating the Census.&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Never click on a link&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;or open any attachments in an Email that are supposedly from the U.S.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;Census Bureau.&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;(prlog.org)&lt;span style='mso-spacerun:yes'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;For more information, see the official&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;website for the census at &lt;a   href="http://2010.census.gov/2010census/" target="_blank"&gt;http://2010.census.gov/2010census/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre   style='background:white'&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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