Morally Upright

By Cliff Schecter
Dear Mr. Liberal,

How can you attack John McCain for being a panderer when he has taken such a strong position on the evil of abortion?

Sincerely,

Morally Upright


Dearly Morally Uptight…I mean Upright,

Thank you for such a well-thought out inquiry. There is only one problem. John McCain has taken more positions than exist in the Karma Sutra. He was against abortion for a while. Then he was for it in 1999, when he told CNN and The San Francisco Chronicle that overturning Roe v. Wade would force women into "dangerous operations." Then he was against it, but thought it was ok in cases where a woman was the victim of rape or incest.

And now, in what an only be described as a Full McCain, he has abandoned that position to kiss up to the Preacher Men who run his party. The only question is when he shoots the commercial on the aircraft carrier to declare his party has won the most important war, the one against women who think they have a right to control their bodies, or something.

To summarize, here is what you need to do so you can get beyond your ass-first atavistic ways and think like a being evolved beyond walking with knuckle support: 1) Stop the excessive masturbation; 2) Read a challenging book, you know, like My Pet Goat; 3) No more turbo-masturbation!; 4) No more Oxycontin Specials (also known as Limbaugh Specials or Electoral Fixers); 5) Don't go on any more weekend cruises with writers for The Corner; 6) Seriously, get your hands out of your pants, what are you a Bonobo!?!

If you have any further questions, please consult the McCain Bible: The Real McCain. It was written by some leftist jackass who actually researched the guy for a year.

Cheers,

Mr. Liberal

Possible solution to rising gas prices?

Old gas pumps can't handle ever-rising prices
By JOHN K. WILEY | Associated Press Writer
2:12 PM CDT, May 12, 2008

REARDAN, Wash. - Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials.

The pumps, throwbacks to a bygone era on the American road, are difficult and expensive to upgrade, and replacing them is often out of the question for station owners who are still just scraping by.

Many of the same pumps can only count up to $99.99 for the total sale, preventing owners of some SUVs, vans, trucks and tractor-trailers to fill their tanks all the way.

As many as 8,500 of the nation's 170,000 service stations have old-style meters that need to be fixed -- about 17,000 individual pumps, said Bob Renkes, executive vice president of the Petroleum Equipment Institute of Tulsa, Okla.

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