....before I would bail out ANY failing company with federal tax dollars, I would first insist on a few ground rules. To wit:

Every CEO and C-level executive must reduce his/her salary to either 1.) minimum-wage OR the 2.) average of all middle-managers' salaries in that company. And no raises except for the average raise that everyone else in the company gets for that previous calendar year.

ELimination of all perks. No corporate jets. No sales meetings in exotic places. No executive lunchrooms, washrooms lunches, dinners, two-martini anythings. No company cars, no company housing allowances.

No bonuses.

No compensation packages.

No frills of any kind for anyone. If the lowest-level employee doesn't get the perk, no one gets the perk.

Then and ONLY then will the federal government even CONSIDER rescuing your company.

....I would NOT want as my Vice President (given who's had that position the last eight years, should we maybe remove the world "vice" from the title???....just a thought) someone who thinks "aerial wolf hunting" is something that's OK to do, just for sport. Or for profit/bounty.



It's a brutal practice. Wolves are shot from low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion, then shot and killed at point-blank range.

Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, promotes this barbaric practice, exploiting a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to allow private wolf killers to shoot down wolves using aircraft. We have to get the word out about this!

Please watch this powerful video by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, and then share it with every wildlife lover and conservationist you know.

And vote with a brain in two months, eh?

......I would make sure my nominee for Vice President did not come highly imbued with elements of white trashiness. (A certain recent candidate's choice inspired visions of a double wide on the White House lawn, with a few snowmobiles on cement blocks behind it)....


I would make sure my VP candidate actually has some grasp, even a teeny tiny one, of what the VP actually does (besides, of course, starting/waging wars, acting like Darth Vader, and tossing down a few before shooting old white guys in the face).

I would insist that my candidate not lie.

I would probably suggest that in a sense of fairness to her (I'm talking about you now, Ms. Palin) other uniquely named children (Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, Trig), Ms. Palin and her soon-to-be-teen-age-mommy-daughter Bristol name their child-grandchild appropriately as well, linked to an equally relevant highlight, place or life event at that moment in time. I'm suggesting Trojan. Or perhaps Lambskin. Or Norinyl. Or Yasmin.

And I have to ask: Wasn't Dubya sold to us as just a "regular guy" and an "accomplished governor." Do we really want that AGAIN? Whole helluva lot of good it did us last time around...

.....I would really emphasize the need for things like truth and common-sense government that works. So let me just remind folks of these blasts from the past (8 years):

duct tape and plastic
WMD
spider holes
Abu Ghraib
"when the Iraqis stand up, we'll stand down"
white-cake uranium
FISA
wiretapping for democracy
Katrina
Heckuva job, Brownie
Harriet Miers
"I-don't-recall" Gonzalez
Jack Abramoff
No Child Left Behind
Cheney face-shooting extravaganza
"Al Quaeda determined to strike within the United States" pre-9/11 memo
9/11 Commission recommendations (not implemented)
biological warfare trailers
$600 rebates will stimulate the economy amazingly well
strategery

Enough?