Or at least was a lineman.

This video is a hoot! And it shows that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts, absolutely”! It reminds me of the story about the wealthy man that walks into a fancy hotel and wants to inspect a room as he considers where to spend the night. In order not to upset the desk clerk, he lays a hundred dollar bill on the counter and says he’ll be back in a few minutes. The desk clerk swoops up the $100 and runs across the street to pay his bar tab. The bar keep grabs the $100 and runs over to pay his tab at the local restaurant, followed by the restaurant owner who scurries across town to pay the madam for his prostitute services. The madam rushes back to the same fancy hotel and pays the desk clerk for rooms rented to service her clients. Shortly, the wealthy man returns, collects up his $100 and decides to look someplace else.

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That’s what I posted yesterday. Come and get me. I have this barrel full of rainwater and others as well. Lock me up!

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Not my word. Usually if someone calls something a “mongrel” it’s not in reference to something wonderful. An example would be referring to a dog as a mongrel would imply much crossbreeding, done only out of natural of instincts of what a dog does. This is not considered complimentary to a dog and I don’t suppose in making reference to any person or race.

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Americans and probably a host of most people in the world are ignorant when it comes to animals, wild or domestic. If someone began messing with your baby, there’s no telling to what extent you would go to protect them. Somehow we tend to not think of such things when it comes to animals and in particular wild animals. Here’s an example of how a mother deer is overtaken by that natural instinct of survival and the protection of her baby.

I wasn’t aware and I wonder how many of you are that it is illegal in some states to collect rainwater that falls on your property. And the reason for this is……………………………?

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What is one to think? Anyone who spends 5 minutes researching the background of Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, Barack Obama’s nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court, can discover that Elena Kagan is not a person of good character. Forget for the moment about political ideals and whether she does or does not emulate the ideals of Barack Obama or that she may not even be well qualified for the job. The woman has been involved in unlawful and unethical practices that cast a very dark shadow on her character and yet both Maine Senators, Snowe and Collins, refer to Kagan as a woman of “integrity”.

Kagan participated in and whitewashed unethical ghostwriting and plagiarizing campaigns while Dean of Harvard Law School, as well as a cover up, and inserted her own false information into a report from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) concerning partial birth abortions, that changed the entire view on the practice.

About her decision to vote for Kagan’s appointment, Sen. Collins said she has, “the intellect, experience, temperament and integrity” to serve as Supreme Court Justice. Yesterday, the other Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe, said she too would vote to confirm Kagan and gave similar reasons for that decision saying, “with the strong intellect, respect for the rule of law, and understanding of the important but limited role of the Supreme Court that I believe is required.”

As with anyone eager to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court Justice, we must question even their ability to make rational judgments on others character. Who could look at Kagan’s record and believe she was a person of “integrity” or “respect for the law”, when she has thumbed her nose at the law and worked to cover it up.

Have our own ethics and moral guidelines become so clouded that actions such as those of Elena Kagan should be overlooked? That is certainly one conclusion I would have to make, unless, of course, Snowe and Collins are no different than the other 98 U.S. Senators who fail at their jobs miserably and haven’t spent anytime at all gathering facts about Elena Kagan.

Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions yesterday made comments attacking Kagan’s nomination saying it would be a “dangerous” appointment. The video (below) is 3:21 long and not once does Sen. Sessions refer to any specific reasons she would be a “dangerous” appointment other than he thinks she is cast in the mold of Barack Obama and specifically hand selected by the President for that purpose. He may be right but why not take the opportunity while addressing the rest of the Senate and specifically lay out all the unethical and law breaking reasons she would be a “dangerous” appointment? Yet, another example of a U.S. Senator failing his constituency by not speaking out with all the facts.

What’s to hide?

Tom Remington