Obama went duck hunting in Alaska. 

He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into Sarah Palin's field on the other side of her fence.

 As the lawyer  climbed over the fence, Sarah drove up on her tractor and asked him what he was doing.

 Obama responded, 'I shot a duck and it fell onto this field, and now I'm going to retrieve it.'

 Palin replied, 'This is my property, and you are not coming  over here.'

 The indignant Obama said, 'If you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take everything you own.'

 Palin smiled and  said, 'Apparently, you don't know how we settle disputes here. We settle small
 disagreements with the 'Three Kick  Rule.''

 Obama asked, 'What is the 'Three Kick Rule?'

 Sarah Palin replied, 'Well, because the dispute occurs on my land , I get to go first .''I kick you three times and then you kick me three times and so  on back and forth until someone gives up.'

Obama quickly thought about the proposed contest and  decided that he could easily take a woman at this game. He agreed to abide by the local custom.

Sarah slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the Obama. Her first kick planted the toe of her steel toed work boot into Obama's groin and dropped him to his knees.

 Her second kick to the midriff sent the Obama's last meal gushing from his mouth.

 Obama was on all fours when her third kick to his rear end sent him face-first into a fresh cow pie.

 He summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his feet. Wiping his face with the arm of his jacket, he said, 'Okay, Now it's my turn.'

 Palin smiled and said , 'Na, I give up. You can have the duck.'

 Experience wins again.

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Hi Jim,

I been seeing Your face alot today over at Retrotraffic. I seen your post and thought I would say hello. :) The joke is funny, even if someone is not Republican, they can always swith the names around. ;)

Thanks for the laugh,

Your Friend,

Shelly Hargis

Tax Cuts Explained

Let's put tax cuts in terms that everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

• The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
• The fifth would pay $1.
• The sixth would pay $3.
• The seventh $7.
• The eighth $12.
• The ninth $18.
• The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do.

The ten men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.

"Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20."

So, now dinner for the ten only cost $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes.

So, the first four men were unaffected. They would still eat for free. But what about the other six, the paying customers? How could they divvy up the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share'?

The six men realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being 'PAID' to eat their meal. So, the restaurant owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:

• The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
• The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings).
• The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (29% savings).
• The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
• The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings)
• The tenth now paid $50 instead of $59 (15% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to eat for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

"I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man "but he got $9!"

"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar too. It's unfair that he got nine times more than me!"

"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $9 back when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!"

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up at the table anymore. There are lots of good restaurants in Europe and the Caribbean.

AylaJean at Multiply is one smart young lady, you should have a visit with her http://libertyrepublican.multiply.com/journal/item/952

Hello Shelly,

Nice to meet you and happy to see I am famous elsewhere too. ;-)

I am not a repuplican myself.  I am a little known animal called a Republicrat.  Both parties have good qualities.  Unfortunately when you lean too far left it is only a slight tip to communism and none of us are ready for that.  Not in this lifetime.  So I have little choice but to support someone that is at least a Patriot and has fought for our right to have this conversation and has done so time and time again.

Libertarians, Independents and Naderites need to combine forces and give us a real choice.

I am happy you stopped in and hope you will visit again.

Jim