{"id":3158,"date":"2010-11-01T00:19:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T06:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2010-11-01T00:19:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T06:19:19","slug":"from-my-reading-list-choose-your-poison-by-bad-nick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/01\/from-my-reading-list-choose-your-poison-by-bad-nick\/","title":{"rendered":"From my reading list &#8211; Choose your Poison by Bad Nick."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse;\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"max-width: 650px; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;\">This is one of those that just is what &nbsp;I would say although he has a better way with the words, I sometimes get carried away and say too much or say it wrong (say something I wish has come out a bit different). &nbsp; He definitely writes better than I do.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"max-width: 650px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"max-width: 650px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px;\">Choose Your Poison<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"max-width: 650px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px;\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" style=\"color: #2244bb; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/badnickblog.com\/?p=734\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-author\" style=\"color: #666666; text-decoration: none; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;\"><span class=\"entry-source-title-parent\">from&nbsp;<a class=\"entry-source-title\" style=\"color: #2244bb; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/view\/feed\/http%3A%2F%2Fbadnickblog.com%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Nick<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"entry-author-parent\">by&nbsp;<span class=\"entry-author-name\">Nick Russell<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-body\" style=\"max-width: 650px; padding-top: 0.5em; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"item-body\" style=\"margin: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ll be glad to see Tuesday come and go, if for no other reason than that we&rsquo;ll finally see an end to all of the political ads on television, where every candidate tells us how terrible their opponents are, in wildly exaggerated claims, but never seem to get around to telling us what makes them the better choice. It&rsquo;s so bad that I&rsquo;m beginning to miss the ads for shyster lawyers wanting me to sue everybody from the doctor who delivered me to the company who made my toilet paper, because they damned sure must have done&nbsp;<em>something<\/em>&nbsp;to harm me in the process!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I make no secret of the fact that I don&rsquo;t like anybody in public office, and no matter who we elect or who we keep in office, it will be more of the same. I think we should just fire them all and hire a bunch of trained chimpanzees to take their places. They couldn&rsquo;t do any worse, could they?<\/p>\n<p>I keep wanting to find&nbsp;<em>somebody<\/em>&nbsp;I can support for&nbsp;<em>any<\/em>&nbsp;office, but they all leave me feeling like I <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>need<\/strong> a shower after I watch them talk. We have our choices of poison, when what we <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>need<\/strong> is medicine to cure our <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>country<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody wants to blame President <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Obama<\/strong> for the state the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>country<\/strong> is in today, but just as I didn&rsquo;t just wake up fat from gaining all of this weight overnight, we didn&rsquo;t get where we are in the last two years. I was willing to give <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Obama<\/strong> and his crew a chance, and kept an open mind.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to a <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>lot<\/strong> of readers of this blog, I supported a national <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>health care<\/strong> plan, because my wife and I were among those screwed by an insurance company during a health crisis that wiped us out financially. I&nbsp;<em>know<\/em>&nbsp;that you can pay your premiums, play by the rules, and still get shafted. Not just welfare rats and illegal aliens <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>need<\/strong> some sort of <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>health care<\/strong> guarantees. There are millions of hard working, tax paying citizens who cannot afford health insurance. What about them?<\/p>\n<p>However, that&rsquo;s all I have seen come out of this administration that I can agree with. <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Obama<\/strong> has turned a deaf ear to the illegal alien problems that are, in my opinion, the biggest threat to our way of life, our security, and our <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>country<\/strong> that we have ever faced. If we could get rid of the millions of leeches who do not belong here and are draining our resources in every area, from law enforcement, to health care, to education, and jobs, we could make life better for each and every American citizen alive today. We <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>need<\/strong> a President with the balls to deal with problem, and President <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Obama<\/strong> obviously doesn&rsquo;t have them.<\/p>\n<p>Candidate <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Obama<\/strong> promised change, but overall, what change there has been has mostly been negative. The <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>country<\/strong> is more polarized than it has been since the Vietnam War, and we <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>need<\/strong> to start <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>working<\/strong> together if we ever want to get back on track. I don&rsquo;t believe that President <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Obama<\/strong> and the current House and Senate can give us that unity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have to be honest with you, in two years I don&rsquo;t know who I&rsquo;d want to see replace the current president, because nobody out there impresses me. There has been a <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>lot<\/strong> of speculation about whether <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Sarah Palin<\/strong> will run in 2012. I know that a <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>lot<\/strong> of readers here think <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Sarah Palin<\/strong> walks on water, but I just keep thinking she is a soccer mom who is more interested in making herself into a celebrity, than she is about doing the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>country<\/strong> any good. If she&rsquo;d just decide that she&rsquo;s a serious politician and concentrate on it, that would be fine.<\/p>\n<p>But she bailed out on the people of Alaska when she resigned as governor, with two years left to go on her term. Next she was John McCain&rsquo;s running mate in the last election. Then suddenly she is a Fox News commentator. Now I hear she is hosting an Alaska based reality TV program. I want a leader who is in it for the long haul, not flitting from opportunity to opportunity like a moth to the next brighter light.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s time to fire them all, and start electing people who have&nbsp;<em>our<\/em>&nbsp;best interests at heart, instead of being self-serving crooks, jackasses who just follow the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>party<\/strong> line, no matter which <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>party<\/strong> that is, and wannabe celebrities. But where do we find them? I have no idea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p> This is one of those that just is what &nbsp;I would say although he has a better way with the words, I sometimes get carried away and say too much or say it wrong (say something I wish has come out a bit different). &nbsp; He definitely writes better than I do.&nbsp; Choose Your Poison from&nbsp;Bad Nick&nbsp;by&nbsp;Nick Russell <\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll be glad to see Tuesday come and go, if for no other reason than that we&rsquo;ll finally see an end to all of the political ads on television, where every candidate tells us how terrible their opponents are, in wildly exaggerated claims, but never seem to get around to telling us what makes them the better choice. It&rsquo;s so bad that I&rsquo;m beginning to miss <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/01\/from-my-reading-list-choose-your-poison-by-bad-nick\/\">&#8220;And Now the Rest of the Story &#8211; &#8220;From my reading list &#8211; Choose your Poison by Bad Nick.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbs","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>From my reading list - Choose your Poison by Bad Nick. - And That was How it Went<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/01\/from-my-reading-list-choose-your-poison-by-bad-nick\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From my reading list - Choose your Poison by Bad Nick. - And That was How it Went\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is one of those that just is what &nbsp;I would say although he has a better way with the words, I sometimes get carried away and say too much or say it wrong (say something I wish has come out a bit different). &nbsp; He definitely writes better than I do.&nbsp; Choose Your Poison from&nbsp;Bad Nick&nbsp;by&nbsp;Nick Russell I&rsquo;ll be glad to see Tuesday come and go, if for no other reason than that we&rsquo;ll finally see an end to all of the political ads on television, where every candidate tells us how terrible their opponents are, in wildly exaggerated claims, but never seem to get around to telling us what makes them the better choice. 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