<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819622086031045595</id><updated>2012-02-17T01:57:47.079+13:00</updated><title type='text'>TOM SULLIVAN</title><subtitle type='html'>There are brilliant conservative writers such as Buchanan and Buckley RIP who are known for reason, analysis and a language gift.  
On the other hand Tom Sullivan often orchestrates fictional gaggles that are not serious at all. Sometimes directing his wild and bizarre humor at an alternate reality hiding in plain sight.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Tom Sullivan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWETuLOezWI/ST8GVSUy9oI/AAAAAAAAAE8/RyOlXmZSOws/S220/Tom+On-Deck+WRhsBrMF8WtYy02r6dYly2ys34sAov2NRa61AHs0VVpjGXl70swZ2pLD1O54IKrR.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819622086031045595.post-1532470756572797056</id><published>2011-06-02T21:20:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2011-06-02T21:20:00.514+13:00</updated><title type='text'> .</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE SNAKE IN THE GRASS, AND AMERICAN SURVIVAL&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OIL is our survival.&lt;br /&gt;Not energy, not windmills, not MPG . . . OIL.&lt;br /&gt;And the snake in the grass is Socialist Environmentalism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would the Enviro-Snake want to strangle us?&lt;br /&gt;Because in war you often have to destroy the enemy's energy supply.&lt;br /&gt;And because a real war or a real propaganda war is about power, and today's Leftist believe they can. They control 90% of the media, and they firmly believe that they can tell us any story about abused field mice and we will give them the power to control society - - for the good of the field mice you understand!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No? Well, Socialist and Leftists are not nuts. They simply want to sell our democracy a bill of goods called Enviromentalism in order to take control or the country. Simple. But you don't believe this? Why would they be so mean? They only want what's good for America don't they?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course they don't. This propaganda environmental campaign is war, as in W A R.&lt;br /&gt;After the USSR (Communism) fell they realized that they could not destroy the US, get away with it. So being bright propagandists they said, Why don't we take the US media that we cohntrol, turn it around and use it on Americsa?&lt;br /&gt;And they did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;General, Soviet Army: "But Comerad you have pointed out to me what we have known for decades, if Americans choose freely they will always choose Democracy because Communism sucks."&lt;br /&gt;General, of KGB: "Comerade General you are soo right, that is why we have to take America by force and then I will take them one by one and torture them until they see the light of how wonderful Communism is."&lt;br /&gt;General, Soviet Army: "We have to attack them while fooling them into thinking they are so evil their society is failing. &lt;br /&gt;General of KGB: You know I always watch animinal shows on American TV. Americans are in love with animinals and natural things. They will do anything for nature , , ,"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so it was, America was converted into a stupid class of adults who could not say no to helping animial and nature, and of course voting Socialist, er, ah, Democrat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Socialists in the current Democrat party, or the Left if you prefer, understand that America is the world’s leading democracy. And Socialists will disguis themselves as almost anything else, want to strangle us with their bare propaganda hands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because they instinctively hate democracy, the way a vampire hates a Crucifix.&lt;br /&gt;We in the West have 80 years of experience with Socialism and despite its promises, it has in &lt;strong&gt;ALL instances FAILED&lt;/strong&gt;! A classic example near home is Cuba in our backyard. The gang that wants Socialism in America finds the Socialism in Cuba inspiring! But it has no shortage of Secret Police. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Destroy from within!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To defeat democratic America, they know they would have to destroy it from within! And that is what the conflict is about - Americans wanting out country to return to opportunity and freedom, and socialists want a captive society owned by the government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sopcialists will use the Democrat Party and the Environmental Cult as camouflage. In power they roll out “regulations” which destroy the American economy, by cutting off our OIL, and our society by cutting off freedom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No OIL no industrial America. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The country would begin an economic and social slide culminating they believe in socialists taking over - disguised as environmentalists. The socialists would claim America’s decline was due to “hurting the planet", which is impossible since the earth is not alive and like a rock can not feel pain.&lt;br /&gt;You must admit that no matter how unbelievable they are, they are audacious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With an Enviro-Socialist government, the fate of America as a successful, creative and inventive free industrial democracy would be over. It would be a great victory for Socialism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Socialists don't think like us.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wait a minute you say; How could Americans in their right minds do this?&lt;br /&gt;It is hard to comprehend this strategy. But for the Left, they could care less! They want to destroy our industrial base by driving America so deep in debt and enviromental regulations it cannot recover.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They DO care about one thing. They care about the power a failed America would give them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Socialists know that a country at war or peace will wither on the vine without oil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CRAZY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As proof I offer; how Socialists disguised as Environmentalists go CRAZY – when drilling - even in the godforsaken Arctic wilderness is proposed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They go CRAZY because with drilling, their End-Of-The-World propaganda charade would die! Not quickly because the American Media would make it appear alive. But it would be dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By drilling America would be acting in its self interest and succeeding. Americans would feel good about their country taking action, and Americans would realize that the Environmental Snake could be killed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They can almost taste America’s defeat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They feel it is almost within their grasp!&lt;br /&gt;Yet it could slip away if America starts real drilling. If we succeed and drill, the Lleft would explode in a firestorm of propaganda about polar bears and cubs on little blocks of ice - lost probably dying. Then a voice-over would mouth: Drill and they Die!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would it be like if we drilled? It would be a strategic defeat for America’s Socialist “Enviros.”&lt;br /&gt;And a major victory for American self determination, that even after years of propaganda bombing, America cleared its head and took charge of its fate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MILLIONS OF ACRES FOR THE ANIMALS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about that Arctic “environment?” It would continue to be exactly what it is, millions of acres of an uninhabited frozen wasteland on the coast of the Arctic Ocean.&lt;br /&gt;The oil drilling would take up about 200 acres - &lt;strong&gt;out of millions&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we realize the propaganda effort the Left has put into the Phony Environmental Doomsday Scenario, we see how deeply invested they are in their phony Environmental machinations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ever seen a snake in the grass?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In today’s propaganda war, Socialists are the snake in the grass, disguised as Environmental Cultists. They are trying to strangle us by denying us oil. If the Socialists win this propaganda war, life in America will continue going down hill.&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand if WE WIN......!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2011 Tom Shannon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2819622086031045595-1532470756572797056?l=newshannonspeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/1532470756572797056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/1532470756572797056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/2008/11/they-just-love-strangling-america.html' title='&lt;strong&gt; .&lt;/strong&gt;'/><author><name>Tom Sullivan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWETuLOezWI/ST8GVSUy9oI/AAAAAAAAAE8/RyOlXmZSOws/S220/Tom+On-Deck+WRhsBrMF8WtYy02r6dYly2ys34sAov2NRa61AHs0VVpjGXl70swZ2pLD1O54IKrR.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819622086031045595.post-3089098696434176328</id><published>2008-10-22T13:53:00.007+13:00</published><updated>2010-08-26T10:38:15.604+13:00</updated><title type='text'>WE LOST THE TRADE WAR!</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is A Commercial WAR&lt;br /&gt;And We Lost!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now We Are in The Aftermath - - Which is a Debt-Ression.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They destroyed out our manufacturing industry, and their allies the enviro-socialists froze our oil industry so we had to spend billions buying oil from unfriendly countries. And what was our brainy government doing? Our government was having delusions of grandeur. While loosing a global trade war, we were fighting two overseas killing wars, supporting a giant expensive military, giving foreign aid to counries around the world, and increasing our giving at home by expanding welfare expenses exponentaillly, and letting our drug-driven neighbor country to the south export twenty million of their citizens illegally overour border for us to support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This means we were wildly overextended and lost the &lt;strong&gt;Commercial War!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And we are living through the aftermath hight here right now in America.&lt;br /&gt;Yes it's the first time we lost a major war, but its's as real a cement.&lt;br /&gt;The issue is that no matter who the Federal government bails-out; the government itself is over $10 Trillion in debt!&lt;br /&gt;Debt is always relative to your ability to pay it off. So with 10 Trillion dollars in dept the US government has no way to pay it off and it is borrowing more just to pay interest!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is pure fantasy that the Treasury can finance our failing banks out of a financial crash, when the Federal Government itself is bankrupt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federal Government lending a helping hand - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fellow bather approaching a drowning man.&lt;br /&gt;“Hey, here I am, just take it easy and if I could swim we would not drown.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stock market will recover when the economy recovers. But think about it. Manufacturing always led us our of our past recessions. But today much of our manufacturding industry hasbeen lost in the trade war! Simply idt is gone.&lt;br /&gt;And we did not know it was being destroyed because it was a military type secret. In facdt much moreof a secret than a military secret!&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately the economy has had much of its manufacturing base sold off to China, and what remains is outdated or has been destroyed by vast foreign imports.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good examples that we all know are GM, Ford and Chrysler. All three are basically bankrupt. GM looses over a $ billion a month, Ford looses a $ billion a month, and Chrysler looses less because it is smaller.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why?&lt;br /&gt;Let’s go for a drive in Japan and look for American cars. How many do we see? How about none. Same in South Korea.&lt;br /&gt;Now let’s drive on a Phoenix Arizona freeway. This non- scientific drive let’s us see that most cars are Japanese, and many are South Korean. US cars seem to be in the minority while only German cars are less common.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These imports come from countries which in turn, lock-out U.S. car companies. For general merchandise think mainly China but when it is about cars think Japan and South Korea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The actual goal in commerce is to make a profit! Our problem is that our government thinks trade commerce is beneath them. And business can be ignored in favor of important government sophisticated geopolitical cocktail parties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What our government has intentionally ignored is that we are in a war! It is called a &lt;strong&gt;Commercial War&lt;/strong&gt;, and unfortunately while government was assiduously ignoring it, we lost the war!&lt;br /&gt;In a military war capturing land is the goal. In a Commercial War capturing the enemy’s money is the goal, so lets look at some clues.&lt;br /&gt;The War Numbers:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China. In 20 years, from the Third World to the largest manufacturer in the world.&lt;br /&gt;Cash reserves over $2 Trillion.&lt;br /&gt;Japan. From small island with no resources and no agriculture. Cash reserves near $1 Trillion&lt;br /&gt;South Korea From small peninsula with little Ag. few resources. Cash reserves near $ One half Trillion.&lt;br /&gt;U.S. Large richest country with giant agriculture, giant industrial, and plentiful resources.&lt;br /&gt;Cash reserves “0”*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* While the U.S. has NO cash reserves, it owes $ 10 Trillion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China for example has cleaned out our manufacturing industry in this &lt;strong&gt;Commercial-War, &lt;/strong&gt;a war that Republicans do not even know happened! And Leftist Democrats can hardly hide their glee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A note of drama to add to this scene. The government is $10 trillion bankrupt, but promising to run in with more borrowed money to fix problems that excessive borrowed money caused.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fall, a gloomy season is on us, with shorter days and cold nights. Over the cleared off dinner table Americans are looking at their real $4,000 in savings, their used car that needs work, and wondering how they are going to survive if their employer cuts back. Do they move in with nanny? Get food stamps? This won't cut it, but this is the lot of millions of Americans who worked at good jobs, that were sold to China by Wall Street Investment Firms for billions in fees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or should this family cut back on needless, wasteful and excessive spending, so they have a smaller carbon footprint to “help save the planet?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now it looks cold out for this hardworking American family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's cut the irrelevant talk about carbon footprints, 401K's, billions in bailouts and Insuring Deposits to $250,000 - and start by understanding the &lt;strong&gt;War We Lost&lt;/strong&gt;, then rebuilding America and keeping it, away form politicians and government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are some visible symptoms of US economic failure?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Our roads and bridges are in decay.&lt;br /&gt; Our government is running huge budget deficits.&lt;br /&gt; It's financing debt mostly with money borrowed from overseas.&lt;br /&gt; It's printing money like there's no tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt; Our currency — the U.S. dollar — is sinking in value.&lt;br /&gt; Our important industries are shrinking and going bankrupt,&lt;br /&gt;such as steel, autos, airlines and the finance industry is a mess.&lt;br /&gt; And our national economic situation makes us looks like a giant Banana Republic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So with our industrial losses, the usual robust U.S. economic recovery led by manufacturing - is NOT in the cards!&lt;br /&gt;Add to this the fact that never in a time of economic collapse has the Federal government also been bankrupt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our leaders?&lt;br /&gt;Senator John McCain and his family worked for the Federal government for the past 100years. It is no wonder he did not understand the public mood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what can we do? We can't hold our breath for 4 years, and anyway in 4 years Acorn will be in charge of counting ballots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But we can educate our fellow Americans in what it means to&lt;br /&gt;live in an economic environment and take responsibility for our knowledge and our children’s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Children all begin believing in castles and fair maidens and kings who provide for the people. Adults should know what it means to have lost a Commercial War, and going into a Debtpression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2819622086031045595-3089098696434176328?l=newshannonspeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/feeds/3089098696434176328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2819622086031045595&amp;postID=3089098696434176328' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/3089098696434176328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/3089098696434176328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/2008/10/feds-have-wrecked-most-successful.html' title='WE LOST THE TRADE WAR!'/><author><name>Tom Sullivan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWETuLOezWI/ST8GVSUy9oI/AAAAAAAAAE8/RyOlXmZSOws/S220/Tom+On-Deck+WRhsBrMF8WtYy02r6dYly2ys34sAov2NRa61AHs0VVpjGXl70swZ2pLD1O54IKrR.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819622086031045595.post-1912166880447648026</id><published>2008-10-11T18:49:00.012+13:00</published><updated>2008-10-22T14:19:09.335+13:00</updated><title type='text'>How the collapse started that went round the world.</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;The Feds funded the MESS, Wall St. made a killing, and We Pay For It!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By no design, I have experiences of being on all sides of the current real estate problem; as owner, Loan Officer, real estate Broker, lender, contractor, Officer with a Bank and with Savings &amp; Loan, and selling foreclosed properties across the country with an MBA. Hard to explain, so you can imagine living it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see the mortgage crisis that started the crash, as the government shoveling buckets of money into the mortgage market - with instructions to banks to lend to people with poor credit (poor people). &lt;br /&gt;Lots of mortgage money was like throwing fire starter on a fire WOOF prices went up and everyone thought they were very clever owning real estate. &lt;br /&gt;It was magic - lots of money chasing an asset that can only expand very slowly. The $100 thousand house soon was worth $200 and in Calif. $500. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But like all waves it broke when people started having trouble paying the monthlies! &lt;br /&gt;As real estate went down, zillions in value was going down hill like, oh, say a freight train. &lt;br /&gt;And no one can stop it! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Wall Street brokers securitized these loans calling them AAA!  Because they had an AAA rubber stamp handy, or probably to sell them! Institutions, pensions etc. around the world bought them. Nothing safer than AAA mortgages! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So not only does the real, real estate market go down hill, but then this  securitized junk paper turns almost worthless. And the banks discover they did not  have enough cash on hand to pay the kid delivering the Chinese food. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Wall Street decides that profit selling this junk paper was great, but now that it blew up in their face, they want the Treasury to bail them out. &lt;br /&gt;And the Treasury is you and I, trusting that China will continue to fund our government debt. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only guy making out during this crisis is Barach Obama, because he doesn't know what the heck they are talking about - but he says it was Bush's fault because he knew no weapons of mass destruction existed.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;2008 Tom Sullivan&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2819622086031045595-1912166880447648026?l=newshannonspeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/feeds/1912166880447648026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2819622086031045595&amp;postID=1912166880447648026' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/1912166880447648026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/1912166880447648026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/2008/10/personal-comments-on-financial-disaster.html' title='How the collapse started that went round the world.'/><author><name>Tom Sullivan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWETuLOezWI/ST8GVSUy9oI/AAAAAAAAAE8/RyOlXmZSOws/S220/Tom+On-Deck+WRhsBrMF8WtYy02r6dYly2ys34sAov2NRa61AHs0VVpjGXl70swZ2pLD1O54IKrR.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819622086031045595.post-2912540934796833938</id><published>2008-10-11T18:07:00.004+13:00</published><updated>2008-10-11T18:16:54.854+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2819622086031045595-2912540934796833938?l=newshannonspeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/feeds/2912540934796833938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2819622086031045595&amp;postID=2912540934796833938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/2912540934796833938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/2912540934796833938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/2008/10/liberal-questionair.html' title=''/><author><name>Tom Sullivan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWETuLOezWI/ST8GVSUy9oI/AAAAAAAAAE8/RyOlXmZSOws/S220/Tom+On-Deck+WRhsBrMF8WtYy02r6dYly2ys34sAov2NRa61AHs0VVpjGXl70swZ2pLD1O54IKrR.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819622086031045595.post-1983455398129352799</id><published>2008-10-10T14:02:00.009+13:00</published><updated>2008-10-22T13:05:17.886+13:00</updated><title type='text'>LIBERAL POLLING QUESTIONNAIRE.</title><content type='html'>This polling questionnaire was discovered in a coffee shop near the New York Time building. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Liberal polls are often sponsored by a newspaper and network, to make them sound legit. Such as: “The Carl and Rita Marx Foundation, in conjunction with Soviet Sleeper Cell No. 6, at National Public Radio.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Q. Do you or your spouse own slaves, or have you ever-owned slaves?&lt;br /&gt;A. Liberals believe they are the only people who don’t own slaves. They are very proud of this!&lt;br /&gt;Q. Do your children own slaves?&lt;br /&gt;A. Liberal thinking – Maybe you put you slaves in your children’s name!&lt;br /&gt;Q. Can you say the word “religious” without saying “extremist?”&lt;br /&gt;A. Liberals can’t. They KNOW all religious people are EXTREMISTS.&lt;br /&gt;Q. Can you talk about religion for 1 minute without saying: “All wars are caused by religion!”&lt;br /&gt;A. Liberals can’t.&lt;br /&gt;Q. Do you believe a conspiracy of a few corporate barons controls the country the way they did in 1870?&lt;br /&gt;A. Karl Marx, Joe Stalin and Jane Fonda all said this was true. Liberals believe their leaders!&lt;br /&gt;Q. Do you believe only government can protect us in everyday life, and we need much more government to get full protection.&lt;br /&gt;A. Liberal say, Yes! “Freedom is scary” while “government is safe and cozy.” This is a core Liberal belief – after promiscuity is good.&lt;br /&gt;Q. Do you believe that the social group or class you were born into - is your destiny?&lt;br /&gt;A. Liberals don’t believe this affects them. But they do believe that the poor dumb little people they love so much as servants - are helpless to change. &lt;br /&gt;Q. Do you believe that discrimination of race or sex prevents people from succeeding?&lt;br /&gt;A. Liberals believe all failure comes from discrimination. Marx said so. It can’t be crummy Public Schools, because Liberal Democrat Teachers Unions run the schools.&lt;br /&gt;Q. Do you believe that discrimination is stronger than ever, but that it is secret today?&lt;br /&gt;A. Yes. Liberals believe this and constantly look for clues. For example, they think people don’t like Woody Allen because of his religion – and not because he is a creep.&lt;br /&gt;Q. Do you believe that people who think clearly using reason and logic, are uncaring beasts?&lt;br /&gt;A. Absolutely! Liberals believe that a truly caring person can’t think clearly.&lt;br /&gt;Q. Do Liberals hate? &lt;br /&gt;A. Not unless they have to say the word . . . Geo-rge-Dub-bu-Bu-sch. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liberals never hate except for: the military, patriots, Christians, freedom, men, women who think for themselves, Conservatives, our successful economy, our technology, our science, the clergy, farmers, the family, the best medical system in the world that treats everyone. &lt;br /&gt;Liberals do hate all sports except antique hunting. And Liberals hate American cars, American food, American history, and American music unless it has filthy lyrics - then they love it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2008 Tom Sullivan&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2819622086031045595-1983455398129352799?l=newshannonspeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/feeds/1983455398129352799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2819622086031045595&amp;postID=1983455398129352799' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/1983455398129352799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/1983455398129352799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/2008/10/liberal-mind-on-display.html' title='&lt;strong&gt;LIBERAL POLLING QUESTIONNAIRE.&lt;/strong&gt;'/><author><name>Tom Sullivan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWETuLOezWI/ST8GVSUy9oI/AAAAAAAAAE8/RyOlXmZSOws/S220/Tom+On-Deck+WRhsBrMF8WtYy02r6dYly2ys34sAov2NRa61AHs0VVpjGXl70swZ2pLD1O54IKrR.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819622086031045595.post-2738049825770548695</id><published>2008-09-27T08:37:00.003+13:00</published><updated>2008-10-11T17:38:50.442+13:00</updated><title type='text'>GOVERNMENT DEVIL</title><content type='html'> &lt;br /&gt;           &lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Government Devil Gives 3 Wishes!  &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;GOVERNMENT DEVIL: I will give you 3 wishes. You get whatever&lt;br /&gt;You want. Then I tell you the terms.&lt;br /&gt;CITIZEN: Sounds great I wish I did not have to work.&lt;br /&gt;GOVERNMENT DEVIL: Then you will live out your life in a Government slum, with bureaucratic handouts.&lt;br /&gt;CITIZEN: That doesn’t sound fair, but I like the no working part.&lt;br /&gt;GOVERNMENT DEVIL: I thought you would. Now for your second wish.&lt;br /&gt;CITIZEN: My next wish is to have free medical care.&lt;br /&gt;GOVERNMENT DEVIL: You have it! All you have to do is wait months for an appointment, go to a dirty clinic with snarley government employees, fill out endless forms, wait in line for hours, and receive primitive treatment.&lt;br /&gt;CITIZEN: But it’s free, right?&lt;br /&gt;GOVERNMENT DEVIL: Yes it is. And for your third wish?&lt;br /&gt;CITIZEN: I want more security.&lt;br /&gt;GOVERNMENT DEVIL: And you shall have it. Everything about you will be known and monitored by the government for the rest of your life. You will ALWAYS carry your government ID card. You will without question follow all government orders, and should you violate procedures; you will be in Big Trouble with the government. But you will feel secure.&lt;br /&gt;CITIZEN: I don’t think this is fair. I won’t work but I will have to live in a&lt;br /&gt;slum. I give up world class medical care, for some primitive dangerous bureaucratic system. And I get security, but I become a life-long captive under government surveillance. I don’t like this!&lt;br /&gt;GOVERNMENT DEVIL. Do you think I care?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tom Sullivan 2008&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2819622086031045595-2738049825770548695?l=newshannonspeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/feeds/2738049825770548695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2819622086031045595&amp;postID=2738049825770548695' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/2738049825770548695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/2738049825770548695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/2007/09/shannons-people.html' title='&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GOVERNMENT DEVIL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;'/><author><name>Tom Sullivan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWETuLOezWI/ST8GVSUy9oI/AAAAAAAAAE8/RyOlXmZSOws/S220/Tom+On-Deck+WRhsBrMF8WtYy02r6dYly2ys34sAov2NRa61AHs0VVpjGXl70swZ2pLD1O54IKrR.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819622086031045595.post-5049682539517703453</id><published>2007-10-05T18:56:00.004+13:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T14:02:05.806+13:00</updated><title type='text'>STATE DEPARTMENT GETS AWARD FROM CHINA</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;CHINA ON MY MIND.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2:35 AM, Hong Kong, 2:35 PM New York EST. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;China announced today its wholly owned subsidiary, The U.S. State Dept. with offices in Washington DC and New York, has been awarded The Peoples Heroic Medal for service - to China.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Hu in announcing the award on behalf of the Peoples Republic and Peoples Liberation Army referred to successes of the U.S. State Dept:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Successfully promoted U.S. give-away of the Panama Canal, knowing large bribes had placed the Canal under Chinese control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Successfully obtained Most Favored Trading Status from Congress, by demonizing opponents as isolationalist-zelots, because they said it would transfer money and jobs to Communist China.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Successfully managing trade relations between the U.S. and China so that in the past 12 years Chinas has made over Two Trillion Dollars in profit from this trade. President Hu proudly reported, “That this has been the largest transfer of wealth from one country to another in world history!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Associated with this proud award was the State Department’s facilitating the moving over 201 factories from America to China and the successful closing of an additional 236 factories in the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.State Dept. successfully working with the Energy Dept., gained access for Chinese visitors to the following National Laboratories: &lt;br /&gt;Argon, Sandia, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Brookhaven, Lawrence Livermore, Pacific Northwest, Fermi Accelerator, Lawrence Berkeley and Ames.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. “The benefit to Mother China from these tourist visits is incalculable,” said the President from his regional office overlooking Hong Kong Harbor. &lt;br /&gt;“Information we acquired has let us obtain a new small nuclear explosive that could have taken us decades starting from scratch.”&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;After the presentation,President Hu expressed his admiration for the State Department cutting off U.S. military aid to Taiwan. “This will make our invasion and conquest of democratic Taiwan later this year much easier,” the President said.&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WOW! I have must have been dreaming! This could never happen. Our State Department would never help China like this. &lt;br /&gt;Because Marxists in the State Department would never permit public disclosure of the Department’s work for Communist China. Americans could become upset.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;         &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;© 2008 Tom Sullivan&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2819622086031045595-5049682539517703453?l=newshannonspeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/feeds/5049682539517703453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2819622086031045595&amp;postID=5049682539517703453' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/5049682539517703453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/5049682539517703453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/2007/10/shannons-people.html' title='STATE DEPARTMENT GETS AWARD FROM CHINA'/><author><name>Tom Sullivan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWETuLOezWI/ST8GVSUy9oI/AAAAAAAAAE8/RyOlXmZSOws/S220/Tom+On-Deck+WRhsBrMF8WtYy02r6dYly2ys34sAov2NRa61AHs0VVpjGXl70swZ2pLD1O54IKrR.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819622086031045595.post-5329474061602522510</id><published>2007-07-28T21:16:00.006+13:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T15:09:36.748+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2819622086031045595-5329474061602522510?l=newshannonspeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/feeds/5329474061602522510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2819622086031045595&amp;postID=5329474061602522510' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/5329474061602522510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/5329474061602522510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/2007/07/shannons-people.html' title=''/><author><name>Tom Sullivan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWETuLOezWI/ST8GVSUy9oI/AAAAAAAAAE8/RyOlXmZSOws/S220/Tom+On-Deck+WRhsBrMF8WtYy02r6dYly2ys34sAov2NRa61AHs0VVpjGXl70swZ2pLD1O54IKrR.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819622086031045595.post-1362753427077961343</id><published>2007-06-30T19:37:00.007+13:00</published><updated>2008-10-22T13:37:28.898+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Psst . . . it’s me your President. </title><content type='html'>Fellow Americans, this is just between you and me. No network analyst will jump in here as soon as I stop talking, and tell you what I said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You think I am joshing? I kid you not. I could announce we found extra gold at Fort Knox and EVERYONE is going to get a bar worth $58,000. Then ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN would analyze it like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“ President Bush is giving everyone a bar of gold, but it will only benefit the richest 1%, and discriminates against minorities and the poor. Distributed at the Post Office it weighs almost a pound, and the poor will drop it on the way home. This is discrimination!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I speak directly to you, without some sweaty rabid Liberal editor twisting it around his marijuana stained fingers . . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok,You want candor? Well here is candor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want more Mexicans here! There are lots of jobs Americans are too lazy to do, and some hard working Mexican can do. We are short of doctors in some areas, so we should have less expensive Mexican trained doctors move into these openings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mexican doctors could slow the rising cost of health care at our hospitals; especially one’s overcrowded with immigrant Mexicans in the Southwest. Be assured your government will be on watch for phony Doctor Certifications sold on the street by counterfeiters. And American citizens, you must be aware, that doctor is spelled Doctoro in Spanish.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Millions more Mexicans will move North, and will take American jobs. The U.S. Unemployment Agency will now train any American who looses a job to a lower paid Mexican - to be a Yard Care Specialist, Night Watchman or Day Laborer. Your Federal Government will help you acquire these skills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You middle class and poorer Americans will find your fortunes will go from bad to worse, because you will be competing with cheap labor in China, and Mexican labor  right here in the USA. Yes you will pay the price for my being remembered, as the President who had true compassion for poor Mexicans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And don’t worry about that ‘700 mile border fence’ I promised. I never planned to build it anyway. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know some of you may feel disheartened, because you voted for me and you thought I reflected your traditional American values. &lt;br /&gt;What can I say? My family was wealthy, my father was President, and I bonded with the true elite.&lt;br /&gt;I was never a middle class American yahoo believing in some American tradition.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Good night fellow Americans, and everyone in Mexico who will be moving north!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt; 2008 Tom Sullivan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2819622086031045595-1362753427077961343?l=newshannonspeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/feeds/1362753427077961343/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2819622086031045595&amp;postID=1362753427077961343' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/1362753427077961343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/1362753427077961343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/2007/06/psst-its-me-your-president.html' title='&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Psst . . . it’s me your President&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt;'/><author><name>Tom Sullivan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWETuLOezWI/ST8GVSUy9oI/AAAAAAAAAE8/RyOlXmZSOws/S220/Tom+On-Deck+WRhsBrMF8WtYy02r6dYly2ys34sAov2NRa61AHs0VVpjGXl70swZ2pLD1O54IKrR.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819622086031045595.post-3733562797416861399</id><published>2007-06-19T15:50:00.004+13:00</published><updated>2009-11-29T14:48:12.336+13:00</updated><title type='text'>"Hey Honey We're Home!"</title><content type='html'>It’s Osama bin Laden’s house in the early evening, and Mrs. Ben Laden is sitting quietly sewing her veil. Suddenly the door is thrown open, and three Osama bin Ladens enter. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In unison they say: &lt;strong&gt;“Hey Honey, We’re home!”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not flustered, Mrs. bin Laden asks:&lt;/strong&gt; “Well, which of you is the real&lt;br /&gt;Osama?&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The bin Laden on the left&lt;/strong&gt; pulls outs a Book and says: “It is me honey, you see I still have it turned to the page that says a woman must always obey her man.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs. bin Laden&lt;/strong&gt;: “Well it’s not you, my real Osama doesn’t have to quote from the Book for me to obey him.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Then Osama in the middle&lt;/strong&gt;, strips down to his swimming shorts, and grabbing an al-Qaeda towel printed “Cole 2000” exits to go swimming in the compound pool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Bin Laden Speaks to the remaining Osama: &lt;/strong&gt;“Well it could have been him. But tell me Mr. ‘Remaining Osama,’ I have a test for you. What are the names of your other wives?” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flustered, Mr. Remaining Osama says&lt;/strong&gt;: “I’m sorry dear, but with the Americans and everyone else chasing me, I can’t possibly remember their names.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Bin Laden:&lt;/strong&gt; “You can remember whose head you cut off, who you tortured, how your funds come from Iran, but – but you can’t keep track of your family?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly the door opens and in strides another Osama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The new Osama&lt;/strong&gt;: “My Darling I’m so glad you saw the three previous Osamas’ for what they were, body doubles. I keep them just to drive the CIA nuts, by letting them see me on satellite in three different places at once!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Bin Laden&lt;/strong&gt; ”Oh yes dear, but would you please point to the spot on the map where you have been hiding?” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bin Laden:&lt;/strong&gt; “Certainly dear, right here in the mountains of Pakistan with my fourth and fifth wives Tueerneka and Zishhnerpu.”  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Bin Laden:&lt;/strong&gt; “Oh my true Osama you have proven yourself. Now don’t take too long in your torture chamber, dinner will be ready shortly.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Osama:&lt;/strong&gt; “I won’t dear, I just need enough time to get your brother MeMonk to confess.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Bin Laden:&lt;/strong&gt; “Confess to what?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Osama:&lt;/strong&gt; “He looked at me strangely the other day, and it makes me suspicious.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Bin Laden:&lt;/strong&gt; “Don’t you know, it’s his false eye that gives him that look, it’s nothing.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Osama:&lt;/strong&gt; “OK my Princess, but if he were my brother, and gave me that look, I would shoot him, and let mad dogs chew him up!” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Bin Laden:&lt;/strong&gt; “You are so wonderful to our family. I hope we have someone left to assume the throne when the time comes.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Osama:&lt;/strong&gt; “I am sorry, it is taking longer to scare away the Americans than planned. I have a firm deal with the Democrat Party, that as soon as they get their cut-and-run legislation passed, the country will be ours.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We have recruits from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria and Marxist Youth from Moscow.   But we have to move faster. Americans are flying over my cave night and day. Some planes have NO PILOT but shoot at my men anyway. Some complain about the war dragging on, but they don't have to live in a cave!”  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Bin Laden smiles,&lt;/strong&gt; touching the automatic under her shawl, knowing that while Osama spent all his family inheritance on explosives, she can make $25 million - - when ever she wants the reward.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                 © 2008 Tom Sullivan&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2819622086031045595-3733562797416861399?l=newshannonspeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/feeds/3733562797416861399/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2819622086031045595&amp;postID=3733562797416861399' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/3733562797416861399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/3733562797416861399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/2007/06/hey-honey-were-home.html' title='&quot;Hey Honey We&apos;re Home!&quot;'/><author><name>Tom Sullivan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWETuLOezWI/ST8GVSUy9oI/AAAAAAAAAE8/RyOlXmZSOws/S220/Tom+On-Deck+WRhsBrMF8WtYy02r6dYly2ys34sAov2NRa61AHs0VVpjGXl70swZ2pLD1O54IKrR.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819622086031045595.post-7733274638390055148</id><published>2007-05-29T13:25:00.007+13:00</published><updated>2011-06-02T18:16:35.843+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Kindergarten Economics 101</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;by Tom Sullivan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shannon’s People&lt;/strong&gt;, who vigorously deny they are partly fictional, were teachers aids when they overheard this dialogue about economics. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KINDERGARTEN ECONOMICS 101&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are in a kindergarten class with little chairs and tables and colorful drawings on the walls. Sunshine streams in the windows as a plump teacher in an ankle length dress enters busily with today’s lesson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher:&lt;/strong&gt; Good morning children!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Children:&lt;/strong&gt; Good morning Miss Ratface.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher:&lt;/strong&gt; Pursuing her lips and smiling: Now we remember how to pronounce my name, ‘Rathfaacee.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Children&lt;/strong&gt; again: Good morning Miss Ratface.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: Now that’s better. Today children we are going to indoctrinate, I mean, learn about really, really bad monsters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Children&lt;/strong&gt;: Ohoooooooooooooo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: Who knows what a Monster is?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Johnny&lt;/strong&gt;: A monster takes candy away from children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: That’s tight. The Monsters lives in a dark cellar, and at night eats up everyone’s candy and cake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Juleen Ann&lt;/strong&gt;: How do we know the Monster exists? My dad says they don’t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: The nice man at the White House says they exist, and he gives them names - Fox, Hannity, Limbaugh, and Conservatives, the same bad men you hear about on the evening news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rodney&lt;/strong&gt;: Can I go to the bathroom?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: You can but you will miss finding out how bad these monsters are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rodney&lt;/strong&gt;: Are they as bad as the old monster, Bush?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: No these monsters are even worse, because they spread rumors about our President's socialist laws!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rodney&lt;/strong&gt;: I was just leaving but can these monsters be too rich? My mom says you can’t be too thin or too rich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt; Ignoring Rodney: Hillerine; Do you know where food and clothes come from?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hillerine:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes. It is the same as last week, the wonderful Federal Government gives us what we need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: Children, the evil monsters should be in the labor-camps our Presidents is building for Limbaughs and Fox.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Children&lt;/strong&gt;, fearfully: Ohghh. Nooooooooooooo! Monsters should be re-educated. They are so mean. They are as evil as the Tea Party!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: Now, now children, remember we must be respectful even to people who don't appreciate our loving government. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: That’s right. Now the party that gives us open borders for people who will vote Democrati and is fighting the monsters for us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rodney&lt;/strong&gt;: My party is next week. I want a phone that takes pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: This Party is the Dem – o – cra - tic Party, and they give us government benefits to everyone who votes for them. They care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Children:&lt;/strong&gt; Silence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: They will make the monsters stop telling tales about our President, even if they are true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charleen&lt;/strong&gt;: Do these monsters live in New York?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;, exasperated: I guess they live in apartments and steal from the poor making less than $250 thousand a year. I don’t know where they live! My union says I don’t have to know. I only have to read these talking points and teach self-confidence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fritz&lt;/strong&gt; standing: My mom says I am too full-of-it. Since I already have it, can I go home now?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: No Fritz you may not, and everyone else sit down. We are not finished here. Who can name the Party that cares for us?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brilette&lt;/strong&gt;: I know. It’s the same as last week The Democrats protect us from stores like Wal-Mart and ToysЯus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher:&lt;/strong&gt; So let’s review what we learned about economics. We learned that the conservative Monsters, are telling truthful stories about Health Care and scaring people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt;: That is all for today children. Remember now my name is pronounced, ‘Rathfaacee.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Children&lt;/strong&gt;: Good night Miss Ratface.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;2008Tom Sullivanspan&amp;gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2819622086031045595-7733274638390055148?l=newshannonspeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/feeds/7733274638390055148/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2819622086031045595&amp;postID=7733274638390055148' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/7733274638390055148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2819622086031045595/posts/default/7733274638390055148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newshannonspeople.blogspot.com/2007/05/kindergarten-economics-101.html' title='Kindergarten Economics 101'/><author><name>Tom Sullivan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xWETuLOezWI/ST8GVSUy9oI/AAAAAAAAAE8/RyOlXmZSOws/S220/Tom+On-Deck+WRhsBrMF8WtYy02r6dYly2ys34sAov2NRa61AHs0VVpjGXl70swZ2pLD1O54IKrR.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
