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Oh my. I was going to write this myself from documentation and articles I have found, but this one does it well. Saves time and effort. The Other Congressional Spending: How the House Spent $1 Billion on Itself Please read it. Then get others to read it. The people we have "representing" us in Washington have gone off the deep end. We have to do something to stop this. This is NOT a Democrat or Republican problem. This is a people problem. I am convinced that the only solution is term limits. We have to get the Congress rolled over. The founding fathers did not put term limits into the constitution because they could not imagine anyone wanting to be in Washington for long. They were concerned in getting true representation of the population. The reason the terms are what they are is from the concern that representatives would do one session of Congress and want to go home. Now we have people in both houses of Congress that have spend decades there. That creates a ...

Russian Prosecutors Investigate Parasailing Donkey Stunt Associated Press This is too easy! I have a million comments for this. You try. I'll just sit back and watch.

I was looking to do a 4th of July, patriotic post. I wrote this last year intending to post it for the 4th and missed it by a week. So, I will use this again. I am an American. Like the majority of those living in this country, I was born here as were my parents and their parents. Like the great majority of those living in this country, my ancestors were not born here. A direct decendent on my paternal side immigrated here in 1789 from England. However, I am not an English-American or even a European-American. It bothers me to see people described (by self or others) as Irish-American, African-American, Asian-American, or any other hyphenated American. Hyphens do nothing but separate us from what we truly are: Americans. Like my father and his father before him; I speak English. In the not so distant past, every immigrant that came to this country learned to speak English. It was a point of pride for them to master one of the most difficult of languages. Since this was (and is mar...