Tom Franklin's Blog

I tell ya, I have not laughed this hard in a long long time.

Thanks fellow bloggers. All of this incredible bull hockey in the political blogs has made me put away my George Carlin DVD's!

McCain this, McCain that!

Obama this, Obama that!

LMAO!!!!

I blame mr_wildflower and decici68 for this idea!  Hey! Had to blame someone.

What cartoon characters would make the best Prez and Veep?

I say Snoopy and Charlie Brown.

2 years ago today I retired from the Air Force.

I must say, I miss it.

1926MISS'S,

You mean to tell me that I was a slave? By you're count, being born in 1957 I would have been.

Blacks were freed in 1865, in case you have forgotten you're schooling. John McCains daddy owned blacks???? Man, he was an old fart. His pops was a honorable Admiral in the Navy, as was his grandpa.

Also, there were white slaves. They were called indentured servants. In case you do not know what that means. They were servants to rich folk or factories or what have you until they could buy their way out of servitude. Most could not, because they kept adding to what they would have to pay to do so.

Is there racism? Yup, sure is. But I would bet my last dollar that racists are not all that common. They just get the attention, because they look so dang foolish. And it is not just whites that are racist. It is blacks, asians, whites, arabs and Native Americans, who actually have a good reason to be.

I just can not think of anything else to say here. I am still laughing to hard!

I believe in our country. Our system works well.

But, I am about fed up with all this election crud. We seem to be at each others throats.

Conservative, liberal, libertarian, communist or what have you. I personally do not give a damn what you are. Why so hateful? Why the accusations? Can we not at least be civil in our debates.

If not, we are not what we claim to be. Brothers and sisters in the great experiment.

Sure, debate all you want. But please, do it in the spirit of the United States. For all of our sakes.

I have been reading about the Scott airshow next weekend.

Sounds like a good time, plus it is free. They are going to have many displays, including the B-1 bomber, C-17, P-51 and a rare LC-130. Plus flight demos by the thunderbirds, warbirds and our own B-25 Show Me.

Hope to see you there. You could not keep me away for anything short of a war!

If you printed out all the lies and BS the wannabe presidents are feeding us.

How far would they reach?

To the moon Alice, to the moon!

I will be the first to admit, I am proud that a black man has been nominated to be president. Why not. He looks something like me.

But. Is he the right black man to be the first?

Is not General Colin Powell a better choice?

A man of integrity. A honest man, whom defended our country.

If Colin Powell would have run, How many of you would have voted for this great man?

I am finding it quite hilarious that there are some that think we black folk hold so much power over the white folk.

When did this happen? Why was I not informed by the black community? If we hold so much power over the whites, where is it.

Sure, we all know about the NAACP's massive force. The United Negro College Fund that puts us all through college, The Missouri black expo that showed us how to control all buisiness in Missouri and how Obama is going to make us all kings and queens.

Ah yes, we are also a bunch of racists. We all hate white people.

Give me a break. Sure, there are some blacks that are wastes of perfectly good oxygen. There are whites and indians and asians and arabs that are also.

We have the same dreams and desires. We are not so different that some want to think.

At one time on these blogs I said I would avoid anything to do with race. Well, I could not help myself. I had to write this because I am sick and tired of race being brought up so much recently. I try to make jokes about it, but it is no longer funny to me.

So the State Department wants us to be PC when refering to terrorists now.

Okay. Here is my not so PC term for them.

CANNON FODDER!

No special reason.

But to all my fellow vets and those still serving.

A big ole ham fisted salute to you my brothers and sisters in arms.

We may have our differences but our bond is stronger than all.

Except maybe you intelligence types. Sorry Bill, could not help myself!

Watching the news today and this struck me.

McCain and Obama, one will be President, I know, DUH Tom!

But man, we had a chance to have two good candidates and we are stuck with these two. A old fart and a poser.

We could of had a good race between Mitt Romney and Bill Richardson, two highly qualified men.

Okay now. My question to all.

Who would you have liked to see as your parties candidate?

I have been reading about how the USA is going down.

I disagree. Yeah, there is a lot of crud going on. Bad news every day.

But, what is good about  the USA? We can blog about the bad, freely. We can express our opinions freely, and not go to jail or have our heads chopped off. So what is there to really gripe about.

Have you been stifled today? Can you not say our prez is an idiot? Can you not say our two main candidates are idiots?

So, if not, what is so bad? We live in the most open society on the face of the Earth.

If it is so bad, why don't you get the hell out?

This is the best place on Gods green Earth to live. If it seems so wrong to you, go live in Russia or China. In two seconds you would beg to come back to the good old US of A.

Any takers? I got 20 dollars on it!

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

I was wondering what all of you think of this quote by Thomas Jefferson.

Was he right on or full of it.

Me, I think he was right on the money!

Looked this up for some reason. Turns out it might not be a quote of Jeffersons. Historians are up in the air about it. Although to me it sounds like something he might have said.

I have found a troll, their name is southeastasia, from Fenton by God!

Apparently I am a dumb Jig. What type of Jig I may ask. The type used in woodworking? Or the type of sail on a boat? How about the one used for forming the sides of a guitar?

It can't be because I am, GASP, a well tanned human being could it!

Sorry all, I just have to have some fun with this person.

You too can see their wisdom on my blog about using the Guard in STL.

Well, not anymore. Apparently the folks at Fox did not like their comments either.

Thanks Fox2 folks.

Tom.