New 3rd Party -- Veterans Party of America

[guajira]

I just found out about this party. Wonder if they can get enough members to make a difference in the election!!??

http://www.veteransparty.us/

[Clark Edwards]

1. uh oh

I have issues.

The site mentions that veterans do have different political leanings, however, I don't see how they could all get behind the list of issues.

This might be a good start, but some of it appears a bit 'rough draft'.

Really...Vietnam Vets Against the War through to the gung ho soldier and everything between...don't know.

However, I have a hard time this will be a 3rd party.

I hope people contribute ideas here.

[pnorman]

2. Heres one ithe items they thought quotable:

TOO HOT FOR ARIZONA CONVICTS ???

It's even hotter than usual in Phoenix, 116 degrees sets a new record, the Associated Press reports:

About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before. Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.

"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzo't, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, A sheriff's sheriff. The tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic.

He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths".



KIND OF PUTS THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE DOESN'T IT?

pnorman