Run In With Mr. Edwards

Tom S. wrote:

the five states with significant
vote frauds; Wisc., Minn, Penn, NW, Oregon and possibly Iowa.

Never heard of this but I did see a story on the news last night that
apparently there are tens of thousands of people registered to vote in
both Florida and New York, presumably snowbirds. There is a feeding
frenzy on now to see if they voted twice in 2000. If so this is very
bad news for the democrats.

Larry Dighera wrote:

Welcome to the 21st century! Robert Heinline predicted this and much
more in the settings of his novels.

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 13:25:41 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote in
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If this is what we have to look forward to under a
Kerry/Edwards presidency, I fear the worst is yet to come.

I believe it is what occurred during Dubuah's reign.

But I share your confidence that the Kerry presidency is assured.

Kerry himself has so much confidence in his campaign that he is still a
US Senator. Since he doesn't bother to show up to work or even vote to
represent his constituents, why not resign now since the election is
coming up quick and surely he must think he will win?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/11/kerry.vote/ Of course if he
can't do his job as just a Senator, I'm sure he'll be a great President
who can boldly lead. What's his stand on voting for Iraq again?

Contrast with Senator Bob Dole who had the integrity to resign from the
Senate and then be a presidential candidate.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news91Wc.21556$9d6.17529@attbi_s54...
After living in Iowa for the last 7 years, it seemed that we were the only
ones left who had NOT been to the "Great Iowa State Fair." This year is
the 150th anniversary of this grand old tradition, so last weekend we
decided to check it out.

Welcome to Iowa...

Every 4 years Iowa gets pounded by political candidates starting the
fall/winter before the election up until the Caucuses, then it's back to
'normal' for a few months then gets pounded again until the first Monday of
November. Then, 3 years of silence! (Iowa? Where's that?)

The local enforcement following the candidates are inconsistent on the
security depending on where they're at. I've seen various candidates running
around Iowa at the State Fair and the Hawkeye football games on election
years with little or no security (pre-911).

The Des Moines and Polk county patrol, SS, etc., were probably at the GA
ramp mostly for looks. I find it helpful to watch the local news and the
paper to see when someone is suppose to be around and try to avoid it if
possible. If you had known Mr. Edwards was going to be in Des Moines from
4-6 (or whatever), you could have planned to be in or out before or after
the 'security'.

G. Burkhart wrote:
Welcome to Iowa...
Every 4 years Iowa gets pounded by political candidates starting the
fall/winter before the election up until the Caucuses, then it's back to
'normal' for a few months then gets pounded again until the first Monday of
November. Then, 3 years of silence! (Iowa? Where's that?)

DARN!!!
And my family may be moving to DSM in a year of two.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message

Jay, I think the only thing that happened is that you encountered a security
detail. This is less and less unusual in our society. It is always
somewhat demeaning to be presented with a public demonstration of the fact
that someone else's priority and security is more important than your own,
but that is the reality we live with. No one had the objective of
disrupting your weekend.


... marveling at the stupidity of it all....while Mr. Liability-Attorney's
727....officers
and agents, all on the tax-dole... Mr. Perfect-Hair....Mr. Ketchup's
side-kick....
... our favorite S.S. officer...

You write a good story, Jay, but my sense is you're trying a little too hard
to be clever and witty. Just my opinion.


...Edwards isn't even THERE yet -- he's just a wannabee! He is nothing,
absolutely
NOTHING -- yet we are treating him like royalty,

Well, not quite. He *is* a sitting US Senator, and *is* a designated
Vice-Presidential candidate, and is being treated as such, according to
law -- no more, no less.

and my family was treated like criminals when we were
anywhere near him.

Bit of a stretch, don't you think?

Mind you, I am not a Kerry/Edwards supporter. Quite the antithesis. Just
my opinions.

BTW.... this appears to be the second chapter of the "Run-in Series". More
to come?

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 12:57:28 -0400, John Gaquin wrote:

and my family was treated like criminals when we were
anywhere near him.

Bit of a stretch, don't you think?

I can offer a first hand story of 2 scientists [1] (foreigners) near N.Y.
searching for the limo service to JFK after they attended a memorial
service and where held by about 10 officers of all sort (state police, FBI,
campus (?) police) for about 3 hours. The only thing they did was driving
slowly around the same block twice. All of them had absolutely NO clue, no
brain and almost no education (else they would have found out within 5
minutes what was going on and would have offered their help).

[1] I heard it from one of the two yesterday; and I know him all my life;
there is absolutely NO cause to believe that only one word is put to the
story to make it up.

#m, rather dissapointed

--
The more one is absorbed in fighting Evil,
the less one is tempted to place the Good
in question. (J.P. Sartre)

"You're driving in a car, what do you need a limo for?'


"Martin Hotze" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 12:57:28 -0400, John Gaquin wrote:

and my family was treated like criminals when we were
anywhere near him.

Bit of a stretch, don't you think?

I can offer a first hand story of 2 scientists [1] (foreigners) near N.Y.
searching for the limo service to JFK after they attended a memorial
service and where held by about 10 officers of all sort (state police,
FBI,
campus (?) police) for about 3 hours. The only thing they did was driving
slowly around the same block twice. All of them had absolutely NO clue, no
brain and almost no education (else they would have found out within 5
minutes what was going on and would have offered their help).

[1] I heard it from one of the two yesterday; and I know him all my life;
there is absolutely NO cause to believe that only one word is put to the
story to make it up.

#m, rather dissapointed

--
The more one is absorbed in fighting Evil,
the less one is tempted to place the Good
in question. (J.P. Sartre)

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 13:00:15 -0500, Bill Denton wrote:

"You're driving in a car, what do you need a limo for?'

the other one (a permanent resident) dropping off the other one at the limo
station for JFK (and then flying back home to Europe)?

#m

--
The more one is absorbed in fighting Evil,
the less one is tempted to place the Good
in question. (J.P. Sartre)

Only if it is the Democrat. If it is the Republican, stand by for flowers and
poetry.

Jim



"John Gaquin"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-BTW.... this appears to be the second chapter of the "Run-in Series". More
-to come?
-

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

Only if it is the Democrat. If it is the Republican, stand by for flowers
and
poetry.

Hee hee! Ahem, not true.

Actually, the VERY NEXT DAY I was in Green Bay, WI, when Senator Herb Kohl
(D-WI) arrived at the FBO. (True, another Democrat, but that's completely
beside the point.)

He had no security at all, and precisely one lady waiting for him -- who
took SERIOUS umbrage with me railing on about Senator Edwards in particular,
and Congress in general, after my nasty little encounter with the Edward
Campaign the day before in Des Moines.

When I spouted that line about how "Edwards ain't NOTHING worth
protecting -- yet" she puffed up as big as a turkey and haughtily pronounced
"WELL, he IS a sitting U.S. Senator...!"

To which I caustically responded "...Which means he works for THE PEOPLE,
right?"

She thereupon fell completely silent, and turned away.

Honestly, the political class -- on BOTH sides of the aisle -- are getting
waay too big for their britches. In this regard Martin Hotze is absolutely,
100% correct when he says "They are POLITICIANS, for chrissakes, and they're
a dime a dozen."

(Did hell just freeze over? I just agreed with Martin on something! :-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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