Dear Mr. Palin,

Congratulations on the selection of your wife as the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States.

We understand you are a member of the United Steelworkers of America union. While I'm sure you're excited by your wife's candidacy for high office, you may be discouraged to learn that the union dues you pay are already being used to defeat her.

When USW union bosses endorsed Barack Obama in June, they pledged to support his campaign using funds collected from union members. Steelworker dues will pay for a variety of political activities throughout the electoral season, and a significant portion of those activities will be aimed at defeating the McCain-Palin ticket.

( This is another reason why I don't believe Union dues should be used to support one who is running for office. Why should  Mr. Palin  dues   be used to elected the men who are running against his wife. Read the rest of this enlightening open letter sent to Todd Palin from National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix.)

No one with any sense is saying dump the Cuba embargo and kiss up to the Castros. But what's so wrong with a 90-day window for Cuban exiles to rush to their families left behind and offer help, as Democratic congressional candidate Raúl Martinez has suggested?

"It was central to my upbringing - I mean, we woke up in the morning, and we were down on our knees, consecrating the day to Lord Jesus," recalls Kerry Kennedy, 49, the seventh of the 11 children of the Kennedy couple. "And then before bed, we'd spend about 20 minutes with the entire family saying prayers together."

The book, "Being Catholic Now," offers an unusually intimate view of how much being raised Catholic shapes the identity of many prominent Americans, but also how much tension many feel with the institutional church.

"Don't even let me go into Cardinal [Bernard F.] Law and that he has been rewarded with a princely title in Rome," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Kennedy, referring to the former archbishop of Boston, who resigned over the sex abuse scandal and now oversees a prominent basilica in Rome. "It is just appalling. I cannot deal with that, so I don't."

In a sign of just how evil our Western culture is getting , here's an item  about a  Canadian doctor" (Andre Lalonde, executive vice president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Ottawa) daring to put down  the Republican nominee for Vice-President, Sarah Palin, for her decision to continue the pregnancy of her fifth child, knowing full well that the boy had Down's Syndrome.
He went further and declared Palin was a bad role model because other women carrying handicapped babies(sit own for this)  might be.....influenced not to abort them! How horrible. This shows a man who doesn't understand in the hearts of every parents their children are borned perfect no matter what short- comings they might have been blessed with. Read more of this outrage Here's the horrible story.

On Monday, NY. Gov. David Paterson angered some state lawmakers by comparing them to vampires, calling them a bunch of "blood suckers." On Tuesday, he raised eyebrows again, and tempers, by accusing the John McCain campaign of veiled racism.

At the Crain's Business Forum this morning, Paterson drew attention to a phrase used numerous times by speakers at the Republican National Convention to describe Barack Obama's leadership experience: community organizer.

"I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama 'black' in a sense that it would be a negative. But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did at the Republican Convention – a 'community organizer.' They kept saying it, they kept laughing," he said.
 (This would be funny if it wasn't true. This is an outrage. There is true racism in this nation but this is not. Read more of the above story  here .) 

 The Obama campaign took its most personal shot ever at Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday evening, questioning his honor over a claim in a new TV ad that the Democrat calls "perverse." ( Obama aide questions McCain's honor    )

The issue was a new McCain advertisement belittling Obama's record on education, and accusing him of supporting sex education for kindergartners.

"Obama's one accomplishment?" the narrator asks. "Legislation to teach 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners. Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."

(Obama had better take this aide to the political woodshed if not Obama might be finished.)

 "That's not change," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of what Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is offering.

"You know, you can put lipstick on a pig," Obama said, "but it's still a pig."

The crowd rose and applauded, some of them no doubt thinking he may have been alluding to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's ad lib during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech last week, "What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick."

"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,'" Obama continued, "it's still gonna stink after eight years.

"We’ve had enough of the same old thing! It’s time to bring about real change to Washington.  And that’s the choice you’ve got in this election."

( I don't know if Obama was talking about  Gov. Palin or not but he has better be careful. It looks to me like Obama is starting to fear. If he keeps this up he can kiss this election  good-bye. Read more on this issue  at  Political Punch.)

 Has America created its own variety of communism with the U.S. Treasury Department’s bailout of two beleaguered government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE)? According to Rogers Holding CEO Jim Rogers, the answer is yes.

     “America is more communist than China is right now,” Rogers told CNBC Europe’s “Squawk Box Europe” September 8. “You can at least have a free market in housing and a lot of other things in China. And you can see that this is welfare for the rich. This is socialism for the rich. It’s bailing out the financiers, the banks, the Wall Streeters."

 

(Rogers needs to go live in China, or Cuba to see  what  it truly is like to live  in  a communist nation. Read more of the above story right here .)

 California's prison guard union said on Monday it will seek the recall of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after he ordered a pay cut for its members amid the state's protracted budget deadlock.  (  California union to seek Schwarzenegger recall | )

"We're going to move it as quickly as possible," union spokesman Lance Corcoran said of efforts to launch a referendum to remove the Republican governor, who entered office in 2003 after a recall election of then-Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat.

(I admit I don't know too much on this issue. Still I don't believe recall is the answer. If these people believe the Gov. is wrong work to get the right person in office. I am also no fan of the Gov. but I believe too often some voters use recall.)

If his aim was to be noticed by America, Russell Brand more than achieved his goal last night as he ranted that President Bush was a “retarded cowboy” while hosting the MTV awards. ( Russell Brand calls George Bush a 'retard' at MTV awards   )