Dems should point out Palin parallels to Bush

Some Democrats stupidly tried to say Sarah Palin is a political lightweight, primarily because she's 44 and from Alaska. But she's aced every test she's faced so far. She's a tough, skillful and highly appealing politician. Democrats ought to stop assuming they'll successfully paint her as un-presidential. If they want to win, they must regard her as the toughest opponent the Republican Party has to offer. The presidential race now has four candidates with strongly compelling character traits and backgrounds.

The Democrats should remind the country that Palin resembles George W. Bush eight years ago. Both were Washington outsiders - successful governors with a small town appeal. Both combine supreme political confidence with uncompromising values. As candidates, Bush and Palin seem like someone you'd like hang out with. Nothing wrong with those characteristics, of course, but Democrats should use Bush to remind America that they don't ensure success. It wasn't just Bush's incompetence that has been driving America in the wrong direction, but it is also Republican Party ideology. "Drill, baby, drill," isn't going to be the answer.

McCain-Palin will bring big changes to U.S.

Genius Republicans once again show why they should be in power. The Democrats are focusing on all this really complicated stuff like banking system failures caused by deregulation and greed, jobs, social security, health care and education. What? Worrying about that stuff is the government's job, not ours.

The Republicans realize the world would be a better place if we could force alcoholic crack whores to keep and bear their unfortunate unwanted pregnancies. This would teach them responsibility. Bristol Palin's difficult decision would have been a lot less traumatic if the government just took it from her.

Under Palin-McCain, schools would teach our children the truth about life on earth 5,000 years ago. Today's problems seem trivial compared to worrying about a T-Rex making you dinner.

Being for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it = great leadership. Keeping the money anyway for something else proves she's a maverick. She's also refusing the glamour and celebrity of those Sunday morning news shows until after the election. John McCain wrote/sponsored the immigration reform bill then showed the courage to oppose himself when he realized it offended Hispanics. Finally, change we can believe in.

Evolution and creation go together well

"Evolution a tough lesson in schools" was the title of an article in the Star-Bulletin Aug. 24.

It shouldn't be a tough lesson if the students were thought to believe that because we have one, we have the other; i.e., because we have creation, in a manmade and nature-made sense, we have evolution. Consequently, because we have evolution, we have more creation(s). It takes one to create the other.

If we leave out supernatural thinking and invoke logical phenomena, it should be a simple idea to comprehend.

Our troops can use your portable TV sets

A close office buddy of mine recently left on another tour to Iraq. Before he departed, I gave him my small portable color TV, which runs on batteries or electricity. On Monday this office buddy e-mailed the following upbeat message to me:

"I've already been using your small color TV. I was very popular this past week end when it came time for football games. Imagine a dozen and more grown men huddled around your tiny TV. It was the funniest site to witness and much, much appreciated! And as you requested, I will pass your little TV along to the next soldier when it comes time for me to return to the states!"

As we all know by now, in February, portable TVs will face permanent outage due to the digital TV transition. However, our troops can make good use of these devices because television stations on and around overseas bases still transmit via analog signal. Please do not junk your portable TVs in February, and opt to donate them to our soldiers abroad.

Aloha and mahalo!

Candidates’ signs going out of bounds

Over the years a set of rules has evolved that tell politicians where they and their supporters can place campaign signs. Among those rules is that a sign must be placed within the supporter's property lines.

This has worked pretty well, at least until this year. I live in District 46 and have noticed that two candidates have decided to either post their signs or allow their signs to be posted in whatever location they choose. This has resulted in many signs being posted in the county and state right-of-ways, which is clearly out of bounds. We might be able to cut one of the candidates some slack since this is his first run at public office. However, the other is a veteran campaigner who knows better.

I have called the the city clerk, who is responsible for enforcing our laws, but no action has been taken.

Since the City Clerk's Office and its enforcement arm have not take action, I call upon the two candidates to go through the district and correct these problems.

Disregard of our laws is not excusable just because you're running for office.