There are hundreds of reasons to dislike John Boehner but the “tan issue” is not one of them. Why some people have bad attitudes toward dark tans is a mystery, although dermatologists have warned people against spending too much time in the sun. I think critics are just jealous and can’t get a good tan themselves.

    But bad attitudes don’t bother John Boehner and I want to compliment him on his tough stand on tans.

    For example, some people, upon seeing John, say things like, “Is he on slow roast?”, “Was he struck by lightning?”, “I hear doctors can help people like him,” and other distasteful remarks.

    That doesn’t bother John Boehner.

    “I believe in sticking to my ethics. My ethics say good tans are good...not from ‘the Dark Side’ as some claim. My ethics aren’t swayed by popular opinion.”

     Many people assume that John has some African-American blood in his family history, but he denies it: “They just resent my great tan,” he says. “Some people are weird.”

    John insists all of his tan critics are Democrats. “It’s obviously a partisan tan issue. You don’t see atheists or devil-worshipers criticizing my tan,” although the head of the RNC, Michael Steele, suggested that Boehner was “ after the Black vote.”

   So John, when some pale idiot asks, “Shall I hose you down?” just ignore him and take pride in your great tan. And if you do get hosed down without being asked, just assume someone’s trying to save your life.

P.S. I think you’re an idiot for other reasons.

                                     from Information Clearing House

A speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

     It is possibly the oldest, easily

the most profitable, surely the

most vicious. It is the only one

international in scope. It is the

only one in which the profits

are reckoned in dollars and the

losses in lives. 

    A racket is best described, I

believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

    In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

    How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?

    Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few...the self same few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war.

    The general public shoulders the bill.

    And what is this bill?                            continued