Socialistic States? You Bet!

Well, i guess that enough smoke was blown up the asses of the Socialistic States of America to get Obama Elected.



Welcome to the new Socialistic Democratic Republic Of America. Where the rich get poorer and the poor get poorer. "Robin hood Economics" will be the norm now.
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Barack 'Robin Hood' Obama and Joe 'Little John' Biden are planning to rob from the rich to give to the poor, in order to 'spread the wealth.'They want to increase taxes on those making at least $250,000, while cutting taxes for those making less than $250,000. What they neglect to tell us is that they're raising taxes on the providers of jobs, goods, services and charitable contributions on which the rest of us depend.

So, once per year we get a greater tax return, while paying higher prices for our goods and services throughout the rest of the year.

And, because of higher corporate taxes, jobs will move overseas, more American dollars will go to offshore accounts, fewer dollars will go to charitable contributions and the work force will be cut.

The American Dream will have a $250,000 ceiling. Who really wins when we stick it to the rich guy? Politicians."

They only hope is that the Demoncrats screw the public so bad that in the midterm elections the Republicans get back both houses.

May God have mercy on our country as well are going to need it.


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DSC09251: Eads Bridge 1.1

DSC09251: Eads Bridge 1.1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This is the Metro Link station at the East side of the Eads Bridge. I took this photo from the ground all looking crazy!

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DSC09214: Eads Bridge 1.0

DSC09214: Eads Bridge 1.0, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Crazy angle taken looking off the Eads Bridge with some of the Mississippi River in the photo.

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Election Day!!

I got out and headed to the polls at 5.40am CST They opened here at 6am.  Did you vote?

           

           

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Bad, Very Bad...

As seen on EPHONYMOUS blog.

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DSC09307: Fall Colors!

DSC09307: Fall Colors!, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This group of trees is located near the old house that is falling down. I love the fall colors that are present. It is a pleasant sight to see when driving through all the corn fields and soybean fields.

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DSC09188: Eads Bridge Metro Stop

DSC09188: Eads Bridge Metro Stop, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This is under the road surface on the Eads Bridge. I was on the Illinois side of the Metro Link Station taking some great photographs today.

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DSC09212: High or Low?

DSC09212: High or Low?, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Is it a stick or a log? You decide what it is!

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Fire!

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
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Industrial...

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
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Behind Trees...

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
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Urine Test?

I 100% agree with this statement.

Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government

distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine

test with which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to

people who don't have to pass a urine test.

Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for

them? Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the

other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their A--, doing drugs, while I work. . .

Can you imagine how much money the state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public

assistance check?

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DSC09149: Ghost 1.6

DSC09149: Ghost 1.6, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Another in the kitty set that i did on Sunday. More great light and shadow on the cat.

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DSC09138: Ghost 1.4

DSC09138: Ghost 1.4, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

She is always a fun subject to photograph. It is fun to try to get her in the pose that you want and that is a hard thing. Cats have a mind of their own and do not obey very well! She is a very temperamental cat to say the least!

I love this pose because of the way that the light catches her hair as she is sitting on the floor. The long ear shadow on her back is really pointed and distorted because of the angle that the sun is coming through the window.

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DSC09091: Firewood 1.1

DSC09091: Firewood 1.1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This was an experiment i did in selective Depth Of Field. It was very windy when i took this series of photos. I placed the front of the wood in sharp focus and the rest of the material out of focus. I love the grass being blurry and having a good Bokeh. Some of the wood is also blurry as well that is not in the directly focused area.

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DSC09122: Ghost 1.2

DSC09122: Ghost 1.2, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I think that this is another good example of a "Depth Of Field" photo. I was laying on the floor for this photo as well. She was looking straight at me and i had my 70-300mm lens on the camera. I love the light on one side of her face and the shadow cast from that light. She is in sharp focus and everything else is out of focus. The light and dark on the floor out of focus is a very neat effect as well.

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Mack: Cell 'Phones, Water Bottles, and the Ballot

Thanks to Mac Hall for letting me post his work to my Blog.

 

Cell 'Phones, Water Bottles, and the Ballot

 

Uncountable kazillions of electrons have been blasted into the universe questioning where Barack Not-Allowed-to-Say-His-Middle-Name Obama was born and wondering if the possibility of a foreign birth compromises his eligibility to rule over us all as President of the United States.

 

Some of Senator Obama's faithful appear to think he (or He) was born in Bethlehem.  This is highly unlikely, but even so it would be irrelevant; his mother was an American citizen and never renounced her citizenship, so Senator Obama is as American as Chicago's South Side.

 

If being born somewhere else were a disqualifier, millions of American citizens would not be citizens at all: the children of servicemen,  diplomats, employees of multi-nationals, and the occasional ill-timed vacationer.

 

Although the Constitution says that, among other requirements, a President must be a natural-born citizen, one can only ask what that means.  Pretty vague stuff there.  Is there such a thing as an unnatural-born citizen?

 

Further, the first 20-30 American presidents were all foreign-born, subjects of Their Several Majesties of Great Britain and Ireland and Stuff. 

 

The precise number of American presidents under the Articles of Confederation is difficult to calculate precisely; some served twice, and one didn't serve at all due to illness, being informally and possibly illegally replaced by two substitutes.  There could have been as many as nineteen presidents under the Confederation.

 

The first nine presidents under the Constitution, beginning with George Washington, were all born in the British Empire, and starting life as an imperialist is so not cool.

 

The first made-in-the-USA president was John Tyler, born in Virginia in 1790.  In an aside we may note that he was the busy father of fifteen children by two wives, so perhaps he rather than George Washington should be regarded as the Father of his Country, or at least a great percentage of the population.

 

Whether or not Senator Obama would be an effective president is up to the voters -- or perhaps up to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or A.C.O.R.N.  According to The Washington Times A.C.O.R.N. registered the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys to vote in Nevada.

 

This leads to the question of whether or not a football player must be natural-born in Irving, Texas in order to play football there.  And, anyway, why aren't they the Irving Cowboys?  Could that too be a false registration thing?  A nation waits with bated or baited breath for the answer.

 

The real issue in this election is not where Senator Obama was born.  The real issue is how the typical modern American is going to be able to mark his ballot with his cell 'phone in one hand, his plastic bottle of fashionable water in the other hand, a tin cricket stuck in one ear, and a bipod or tripod or something stuck in the other ear.

 

Is the Constitution available as a download?

 

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Today's Horoscope


Remember: Nobody is perfect. Whatever you lack in talent and ability, you more than make up for in well-timed excuses.

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DSC09118: Ghost 1.0

DSC09118: Ghost 1.0, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

The light and shadows cast by the big window were just amazing this evening. She was sitting on the floor with the light dancing about her and causing different patterns on the floor. I love the shadow caused by the light on against her head. She was just starting to turn her head in my direction. At this point, i was standing and not laying on the floor.

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DSC09123: Ghost 1.3

DSC09123: Ghost 1.3, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I was on the floor photographing her. I love the blurry background (Bokeh) behind her. The sun was shinning in through the big window on the stairs and hitting her. Shadows were dancing around because of the wind that was blowing outside. I am not sure what she is looking up at, but it gives a good side profile of her face.

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Bike Trials.

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone. MC Trial system.
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