(238) SORRY TO SAY!

Sorry to say that I was right. Ringo won the election in Iran. It is hard to imagine Ringo losing in a country where the Beatles are so popular.

We are monitoring reports of irregularities. What does that mean? What if we found out there was wholesale fraud and Ringo stole the election? Are we going to write a strongly-worded letter? Ringo won by such a wide margin that hundreds of people had to be involved in the conspiracy to get Ringo elected and, by now, someone would have surfaced to describe the irregularities.

Now, it is time to bomb his bomb-making facility and go home.

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With the approval of every politician in sight, the government rushed to put tobacco under the control of the FDA. Now there is an idea that only a fool could support. At the moment, because of the depth of the bureaucracy, beneficial drugs are held up for years. In contrast, after years of research, dangerous drugs still get into the market. Now, we have an increase in the size of the already stagnant bureaucracy, creating additional job security for paper shufflers. I do not smoke, but I think if someone wants to smoke, that is an individual choice, and the government should stay on the sidelines.

Obama is as dangerous as Bush. He has his own agenda that is not unlike George W. Bush's agenda. We still have at least two wars going on, a lunatic in North Korea, suicide bombers in Pakistan and Iraq, and breath-taking deficits.

Obama is proceeding with health-care reform. That means one other aspect of our lives, which was once an individual choice, will now rest in the hands of the government.

Respectfully submitted,
Donald M. Heavrin
Your election moderator