Ray's Shorts

Copyright © 2008 by Ray Thomas. These are short items of OPINION, for which I often don't have URLs to use for documentation and which are usually too short to be a headlined item. When I can, I'll include any URLs I have, or give you an idea where to look. This feature may be used freely by posting or publishing it without changes, and while retaining my copyright indicia. Please let me know when you do. . . . THE "GRAVITAS FACTOR": The liberals tell us constantly that people like Rush Limbaugh and others who don't "toe their line" get regular "talking points" from Washington. But have you ever heard non-liberal newspeople and pundits all using the same word, on the same day like you have heard from liberals? Such was the word "gravitas," which suddenly appeared one day, and was used in just about every liberal newscast or article that day, and for several days thereafter. It is still being used periodically. The current "Talking points" word is "change," which all of the Democrat presidential candidates, and even some Republicans are using, as if it were a "mantra." What I question is "what kind of change?" Nobody seems interested in defining what they mean by the word. . . . x, rather than wear a rubber, but that surely exacerbated it. LIBERAL MEANS NOTHING: Ed Stein, ultra-liberal cartoonist at the "Rocky Mountain News" says "Calling me liberal means nothing." He wishes. It means he is a socialist and pushes socialist causes, whether he likes it or not. . . . McCLAIN'S CONSTITUENCY -- DEMOCRATS: The reason he didn't win The Republican Open Primary in Michigan is because his "constituency" didn't come out in the cold to vote for the Republican candidate who can't win in the general election, McClain. . . . IT'S A CONCENSUS! More than 400 prominent scientists around the world say they have major problems with the so-called "consensus that global warming is man-made." But never fear. The "global warming is man made consensus" is alive and well in the "mainstream (liberal) media." Typical liberals: "never mind the truth, this is what we believe." . . . McCLAIN: THE LIBERAL'S FAVORITE REPUBLICAN: Can anybody figure out why? It's because he is more liberal than anything else. Does the fact that liberals like him tell you anything? . . . SMOKING CAUSES RECTAL CANCER? Someone claims this, but I can't see how it would happen unless someone was using a different orifice that I used when I was smoking. Maybe it's because, as someone said, people were "blowing smoke up there." People do that to me a lot. . . . THOUSAND DOLLAR HAIRCUTS: If John Edwards spends $1,000 on a haircut, would he be more responsible in spending taxpayer money if (shudder) he ever became president?.. . . "TWO-FACED?" Abraham Lincoln was once accused of being "two-faced." To which he answered, "If I had two faces, why would I use this one? No slouch on the fast comeback, Winston Churchill was once told by a dowager he disliked, "You're drunk!" To which he replied, "And you're ugly, madam. In the morning, I'll be sober, and you'll still be ugly." . . . KUCINICH QUITS: I didn't even know he was running. . . . EDWARDS QUITS: He must have run out of hair spray.