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Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #39

From father to son to grandson -- we all want our values passed onto those who are our descendants, but don't expect them to be transmitted intact.

(Salem) - People who I see in the grocery store, those with whom I don't even have a nodding acquaintance, are growing old. Celebrities are growing old, in spite of trainers and plastic surgery.

Governor Schwarzenegger's face botoxed into immobility is more distressing than if his face were as wrinkled as Keith Richard.

Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #38

(Salem) - Our in-your-face culture is encumbering. We are entitled. Give it to us now because we're the red-white-and-blue. Give us our climate-altering fossil fuels. We earned it because we just did--that's all. Give, give, give because we're America. Attitude with a capital A.

If we want to invade a country under false pretenses we get to call it liberation. If we want to torture--it's okay. They're just non-combatants. It's not fascism when we do it.

Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #37

Who will be Obama's Ulysses S. Grant?

(Salem) - Not three months into his administration Barack Obama has had his own Hurricane Katrina dropped in his lap.

He didn't create the banking crisis, but it's his to solve. It's difficult to say that his leadership in this is any better than Bush's with Katrina.

Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #36

The internet does a poor job of containing cranks. They breed here like pill bugs. They spew their digital graffiti in the name of free speech.

(Salem) - For a country founded in rebellion the romance of revolution appeals. Revolution takes many forms, but it is the small-minded which believes that their cankered opinions demand violent revolution.

The words "civil war" come to the lips of trolls because their distinctly un-American take on politics is not in favor. Tut, tut.

Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #35

It's stunning how quickly the pendulum has swung.

(Salem) - It's stunning how quickly the pendulum has swung. We are mere weeks into a new presidency--one markedly different from its predecessor by its transparency if nothing else.

While President Bush received and deserved to receive criticism, the Right's criticism of Mr. Obama (who expects and respects criticism) crosses the border into theater.

Reverend Benny & Mr. Sid`s At Your Service #34

What kind of world are we witnessing the birth of?

(Salem) - In the darkest hours of the Bush Administration there were those with vision who saw that Bush's mishandling of the Office of President and the nation as a whole would bring collapse to the Republican Party.

Even so these futurists could little predict the depth to which he would body-slam his party -- not even the almighty Ron Paul...

Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #33

(Salem) - While the Republicans may not be in power, it does not mean they are powerless. By obstruction, by bluster and by traveling in time they mean to undo the work of the New Deal, stem the growth of the middle class, and back stab Barack Obama.

As you may recall in the last episode a hapless group of Young Republicans traveled back in time to 1920 and meant to violently man-handle Franklin Roosevelt.

Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #32

This week Reverend Benny sneaks us into the inner workings of a group of Young Republicans. Take note of this group's solution to all the world's problems.

(Salem) - President Obama understands what few in Washington understand. That reality television isn't really reality.

That cable television reflects (mostly) right-wing politics. Our Man from Chicago flew to Indiana, a state bright red for decades until it voted for Obama in '08, to promote his stimulus package which conservatives tried to recast as a spending bill.

Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #31

(Salem) - In accordance with his campaign promise, Barack Obama's first action as president was to put aside the politics of division and reach out across the aisle to those of the loyal opposition. Unfortunately his opponents made no such promise and wasted no time in dragging Obama down regardless of the results to the state of the nation. So much for a team of rivals.

But Barack is a Chicago boy, and as such must have some sense of what politics means and what to do with members under your care who don't know how to play well with others.

Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #30

Join bottom-feeders from all over the world to read the story of a powerful psychic's ability to discern the future.

(Salem) - It is now time for the truth to be revealed. While names of economists are being tossed about with reckless abandon the one person who really knows (who has known all along) is being ignored.

Who warned us decades ago of this impending economic debacle which has brought our nation to its knees?

You don't need to consult fancy-schmancy Princeton Nobel Laureates to understand the problems of the economy. You need only ask Ron Paul. He knows it all and then some.