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2011-10-28T22:09:00.001-04:00

Dear Friends:

As we age, we all slow down a certain bit---what with normal wear and tear, disease, and accident. Well, I've been laid up with a repaired umbilical hernia and several diseases and degenerations and other things you don't want to know about. Consequently, my energy has led to reduced writing efforts.

As a result, I'm combining all my blogs into one. So, political, personal, and literary blog entries will all appear on the same blog. I will combine them all on the Notes for Ramey site: http://notesforramey.blogspot.com/ I will also be adding a few older entries that you may have missed. This blog will be a real find for you now. Please visit as often as you can. Tell your friends! Subscribe! Comment! Send me emails! I'll have it going within the week after I chase all the nurses away.

Thanks to all: TNM aka Topaz

Trying Souls in the Lemonade Stand

2011-06-30T21:46:00.005-04:00

These are again the days that try men's and women's souls. Things are happening in the World and American Society that can't be believed. Here's a sample.

*In re a discussion of 2011 from an article written December 29, 2010: "...There is no way of knowing how long the Islamic Revolution will last. With a history based entirely on conquest and domination, the present fever and fervor may take quite a while to sink back into a dank resentment of everything modern, everything that has to do with individual freedom. When your whole understanding of the world is contained in a single “holy” book deemed the word of Allah, there are few options for reform...

We cannot know how long it will take America to work its way out of its economic problems, mostly based on literally insane spending, borrowing, and the over-regulation of everything...The world is beginning to make plans for a failed America. Our credit rating may drop. How long we can just print money to buy our own debt is anyone’s guess. It’s like moving one’s debt between credit cards. The debt, however, does not go away and the spending (and the waste) never stops...The Russians and Chinese are already using their own currencies to finance their trade deals, not the U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, in Europe, nations including Great Britain, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Portugal, are on the razor’s edge of financial collapse. Too much socialism. Too little realism..." --- by Alan Caruba --- Alan Caruba writes a weekly column, “Warning Signs”, posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center, and he blogs at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/. His book, “Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy”, is published by Merrill Press.

*“I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. So far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.”

- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859), Written in a letter to Arthur de Gobineau, 22 October 1843, reproduced in the “Tocqueville Reader”, p. 229.

*With apologies to Reese of the 1992 Terminator movie: Listen, and understand. The Liberals are out there. They can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. -- And we're so much on that road that it's downright frightening. Please go to the polls in 2011 and 2012 and vote back sanity in enough numbers to quiet the Liberals.

*VA censors prayers, bans God Bless You, Jesus and other phrases from being used in funerals in their Houston Cemetery.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/29/houston-veterans-claim-censorship-prayers-ban-on-god-and-jesus/?test=latestnews
I'm looking to be cremated in a reputable place by knowledgeable people before the VA steps in to ban something, like an employing sneezing and being told 'God Bless You.' I figure an urn won't take up so much space somewhere, and the mourner can say a quick prayer for me without anyone bothering him/her.

*Kids fined and lemonade stand shut down.
http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/155167/158/County-Shuts-Down-Kids-Lemonade-Stand-500-FineOfficials are on the hunt. Next, they'll be charging a toll for kids to roller skate or skateboard down the sidewalk tax. Can't we shut down the administration and fine it something, say $1.5 trillion?

*Thieves steal and damage US flags set up for celebration.
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/06/27/50-american-flags-stolen-damaged-in-uniontown/First the homeowners associations, and now the thieves and vandals. Where's the spirit of America any more?

Good-bye Osama! Wave to Adolph!

2011-05-04T03:08:00.002-04:00

*I'm very glad Osama bin Ladin is dead. I applaud the efforts of the US Navy Seal Teams and the Intelligence backing them. I applaud the action of Obama giving the go-ahead for a dangerous foray into a foreign Country---knowing there will be backlash. The success of this raid took many years of planning and effort from the US Military, the US Intelligence Services, and the administration of George Bush to set the stage for Barack Obama to act.

The question now is: where's the proof? Any and all photos and videos need to be released immediately no matter the sudden Victorian prudery of the Administration. I think the people who experienced their love ones being torn to pieces on 9/11 can bear to see the bloodied body of a homocidal maniac. Besides, for an Administration slowly pushing us financially and socially into the dark ages, I find it's reticence to show the photos curious. Is it the low poll numbers? Does he need to stretch this one success out? Why does it take so long for him to come to an obvious decision? Since Obama has never been particularly honest, how can we believe him now? Does it really take that long to photoshop?

I have no objection to the washing of bin Ladin's body and dressing it in a shroud like he always carried around with him. But I stop short at approving the quick burial at sea with a religious funeral. Bury him at sea? Just throw him to the sharks. Religious funeral? He wasn't a Muslim. In fact, I don't think he was much of anything. And we needed to delay burial and examine his body with a little more detail.

By the time you read this, I'm sure some Resolution has been made by Obama [as long as it's not his scratched desk, right?.] Let's hope it's the correct one.

*Why doesn't Al-Quaeda give their bombers a little taste before killing themselves? Oh, I see. All the Muslim virgins are gone. They've been murdered and raped as part of the Muslim culture. So, the logical question appears. Where are all these virgins in the Muslim Heaven going to come from? There are only so many convents that the Muslim tribes haven't destroyed. Don't any of the potential bombers wonder about this dearth of glory? Of course not. They're still mired in the Seventh Century, fantasies and all.

*Donald Trump has shown his Democrat/Liberal leanings in the past using invasive government to do his bidding, so why is he suddenly declaring Republican and Presidential candidate? He's very smart, and very tricky. He's totally for Obama, and anything he does is calculated to help Obama get re-elected. By bringing up the birth certificate of Obama [he really hasn't shown a real US one], he gains notoriety and some Conservative backing, and he defuses the issue for the election cycle. By declaring himself Republican [and then Independent when he isn't the Republican candidate] he gathers much support. All the current Trump criticism about Obama cannot to be trusted. His plan is to go Independent and siphon votes from the Republicans, thus leading to a victory by Obama. He'll probably get a Cabinet or Czar appointment in return. No thanks Mr Hairy ego. You're too Liberal for us. [Another pertinent opinion, this one by Michelle Malkin: http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/04/22/donald_trumps_eminent-domain_empire/page/full/ ]

*Per Fox News in early April: "...Girl feels excluded by the words 'Heavenly Father' and 'amen' on banner in school's auditorium..." I saw and heard this girl in a video clip, and she's nothing but an ACLU shill looking for her fifteen minutes. It's clear that she's being manipulated by her lawyer and ACLU. The Constitution guarantees the free expression of religion. Atheism is not a religion. Therefore, she has no right to interfere with other's freedom of religious expression. ACLU---via this girl---is upset at 'Heavenly Father' and 'Amen' but have not problem with rap music's often disgusting lyrics, the murder of unborn children, or the continued Democrat attack on the US. A pox on her, and the usual pox on those idiots at ACLU.

*Does President Obama have a passport? Does he need one? If so, how can he get one without a real birth certificate?

*As heard on the Glen Beck program and in print elsewhere: "...The State Department reportedly will propose a new questionnaire for 'some' passport applicants -- an otherwise uneventful bit of news if it weren’t for the questions themselves. Nearly impossible to remember details such as all addresses since birth, lifetime employment history including employer and supervisor names, addresses, and telephone numbers; mother's address one year prior to your birth and on and on and on. Fail to provide any details? It 'may result in the denial of your U.S. passport application' the form states. Why in the world would they want to do this?.." --- Keep all this in mind when you think about the President. He didn't have to answer any questions to be a candidate or President. He didn't even prove he's a citizen of the United States---and why would someone pay millions of dollars to keep his birth certificate and student records and records of his State Senatorship secret if there is nothing to hide?

5/4/11 Update:
From the latest news we know now that Obama couldn't make up his mind about the bin Ladin raid, being his usual wishy-washy self. We're told that Obama was never in charge and was being manipulated---predominately by Valerie Jarrett. As we all know from the past few years, this man is not a leader. He had to be dragged away from the golf course to even participate in the final bin Ladin raid planning. Look at the now famous photo of Obama and members of his Administration watching the real-time video of the raid. Does Obama look like he's in charge? He looks like his presence there is an after thought, and he was humbly sitting to the side while the adults ran the session. And now we're told that he wont release any of the raid photos of the dead Osama bin Ladin. We're supposed to believe him that the death occurred? Believe a President who uses lies and misinformation to administer his Presidency? We're supposed to believe that this whole event [including photo ops at Ground Zero] is not a political ploy to help his poll numbers? It took him two years of criticism to force him to release what he claims to be his birth certificate. Most knowledgeable people tell us that it: isn't a birth certificate; has no seal; has been apparently photo shopped with info that is not in context with 1961 or other realities. Now, how long will we wait for the photos and videos? Will they be phot shopped? Doesn't Obama know that they'll be leaked as soon as an opportunity arises?

The Elephant and the Donkey

2011-04-15T23:23:00.000-04:00

*Whyfore the Donkey? It first appeared as a symbol for the Democrat Party in the time of Andrew Jackson [1830s.] It continued as a symbol, along with a [crowing] rooster up through the 1880s. Thomas Nast, the cartoonist, first used the Donkey symbol in an 1870 cartoon, 'A Live Jackas*s Kicking a Dead Lion. The donkey [or as*s] has long been the representation of ignorance, and we can find examples in Aesop's 'Fables,' Apuleius's 'The Golden As*s,' and Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' In the twentieth---and now the twenty-first---century, the donkey symbol has grown to be the perfect denotation of what the Democrat Party is and and how it acts: Common sense! Common decency! Common truth! Oh, wherefore art thou in the heart of the left?

On the other hand, the Republicans have the Elephant. Since Roman times, the Elephant has been a sign of strength. It seems to have been applied as a representation of the Republican Party since an Illinois newspaper used it in commenting on the 1860 Presidential Campaign of Abraham Lincoln. Cartoonist Thomas Nast, who was a steadfast Republican, cemented its use [as best a cartoonist could] in welcoming the Elephant as the symbol for Republican Party in an 1874 cartoon. He was attracted by the animal's great size, intelligence, strength, and dignity.

Hmmm. Should I choose a Party with a symbol of ignorance or a symbol of strength, intelligence and dignity? A really hard decision, isn't it? Especially since the symbols fit the parties so well.

*Treasury pays out 8 times the income during March: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/march-madness-feds-spent-more-eight-time Sounds about right for a bankrupt Country.

*George Soros is at it again. "The country could, actually, absorb some more debt in order to get the economy going," George Soros told Bloomberg television over the weekend. [a few weeks ago] Just as an example, let's reduce Soros' income to less than his expenses and freeze all his assets. I wonder how long he could get by with more borrowing? What is his limit? With frozen assets and a poor income flow, he'd be bankrupt very soon. [and his World would be falling to pieces around him---not a bad thing.]

*We note that the California Federation of Teachers has voiced support for a convicted cop killer [Muslim.] The union is putting itself up as a judicial organization of the pardon while it's idling around---sometimes even teaching our kids the basics of socialism and weenie-ism.

*We have the Muslim nations of Africa and the Middle East in turmoil. Some in the West are hailing these revolutions as a victory for Democracy. I see it as a consolidation of the Muslim Brotherhood and the complete subjugation of the citizens in each Country as they all mass together to forge Muslim influence. Things won't get better, nor will the citizenry have any freedom in the long run. They'll get worse with the Muslim religious fanatics taking over Country after Country while all the population is pushed back into 7th Century living quality---except for the elite Muslims, of course.

Speedo to Sharko!!

2011-03-21T18:30:00.002-04:00

*From the Press-Telegram [via AP] in Paramount CA: "The assistant principal at a California high school has been placed on leave after a campus talent show where male students pranced seductively in underwear and Speedos..." Was this 'show and tell'? And these teachers are the ones who expect high pay and obtuse benefits for this?

*Fox News.com: "In final edits leading up to the vote, conservatives rejected language to modernize the classification of historic periods to B.C.E. and C.E. from the traditional B.C. and A.D. They also required that public school students in Texas evaluate efforts by global organizations such as the United Nations to undermine U.S. sovereignty. During the months' long process of creating the guidelines, conservatives successfully strengthened the requirements on teaching the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation's Founding Fathers and attempted to water down rationale for the separation of church and state...The standards will refer to the U.S. government as a "constitutional republic," rather than "democratic," and students will be required to study the decline in the value of the U.S. dollar, including the abandonment of the gold standard."

[Me: The trouble with leaving the history writing to historians is that many are Liberal and they freely allow their Liberal ideology to drip into their writing. Besides, these are only guidelines, they aren't the actual writing. The Liberal bias in schoolbooks has for years brought about the so-called 'education' of a bunch of Liberal non-thinkers. The worst of the lot show themselves here with their hatred and mis-educated thoughts. They aren't evil, they're just ignorant of truth and even-ness in society---like slavery. Most comments [on this article] I've seen are wrong. Slavery was wrong but it was accepted in society for a number of years. That doesn't make it right. These people were educated into such a mindset, just like the Liberals of today were taught intolerance and incorrect history based on the leftist view.]

*Townhall.com [via AP by Christina Hoag]: "Next month's opening [September 2010] of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinated in 1968...With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation's most expensive public school ever..." And we wonder why education eats up so much money and produces so little in result. This type of spending is obscene, and it should never be repeated---even by a small percentage.

*Townhall.com [via Chuck Norris]: "The Arabic studies program -- funded by a five-year, $1.3 million Foreign Language Assistance Program federal grant -- was to begin this semester at Cross Timbers Intermediate School [TX] and then spread to neighboring schools in the Mansfield Independent School District. Thank God for the parental passions and patriot fires of the almost 200 parents who showed up at a meeting last week to question the wisdom of school officials. They are fighting in their own personal education Alamo and presently have the upper hand. For the moment, the school district has backed off plans for its Arabic studies program. With 14 percent of American adults (32 million) incapable of reading a newspaper or instructions on a prescription bottle, don't you think federal monies could be put to better use by helping Americans learn to read and write English?.." Per Barbara Bush: " 'I'm against English as a second language. My great-grandmother came here as a German. She didn't have someone give her English as a second language. She learned it in three months. It's survival.' " -- Common sense does sometimes prevail over the Third Worlder Liberals.

*sntp.com [Say No to Psychiatry]: "Modern education, especially as it exists in the government controlled public schools, has deteriorated continually over the past 100 years. There are no "education specialists" who aren't now actually behavioral psychologists or psychiatrists. The field of psychology has very much taken over the public school system, and is doing its best to take over private schools. Through covert tactics, extensive lobbying efforts, and setting government mandated "educational standards", even home-schooling may have to conform to the dictates of psychologists..."

[Me: Sadly, this rings the bell of truth.]

*Michelle Obama continues to speak out about fat and obesity, especially in children. Nevertheless, while in Aspen over Presidents Day Weekend she enjoyed a braised pork short-rib dinner, boasting of [meat only] 1575 calories, 142 grams of fat, and 287 grams cholesterol. I guess it's still the old Liberal mantra: do as I say, not as I do.

*Obama claims to be a home brewer, but does he actually do the brewing? Probably not. His chefs are the ones doing it. Doesn't that remove the process from the term 'home brewing?' If he or Michelle isn't actually doing the work, then the 1978 law doesn't apply. So. Does he have a liquor license like the micro-brewers must have? Does he pay all the federal and state taxes on the production? I doubt very much he does. Aren't the chefs public employees? Isn't he using them for personal aggrandizement? Shouldn't he be prosecuted for breaking the law?

*All 3rd World Countries and the UN want the US to give money and aid all over the World for their benefits---whether disaster strikes or not. The UN wants to redistribute US money to other Countries who waste what they have. They assume the US is inexhaustibly rich. They assume wrong. Besides, why aren't the Chinese handing out money left and right? Isn't their economy booming? We're headed towards an equalized World---everyone and every Country will be poor except China. Way to go oh Liberal thinking!

* There is a story on National Geographic Channel about a killer whale fighting and killing a great white shark in the ocean. The whale ate the shark's liver and moved on. Where is the wrath of the Liberals? Compare that to a human hunting and killing a large animal, say a predatory lion or tiger, eating just the liver and leaving the body for the scavengers [who have to eat to live as well.]

In the latter case, the Liberal's and media would be tripping over themselves to destroy the hunter, blaming it on the NRA, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and George Bush. It shows the lack of understanding of people and animals on this planet. In the Bible, God gives man dominion over all the animal life on Earth. Should we hunt down and destroy that killer whale for destroying another animal?

Should a man be excoriated for doing the same thing? Does having a choice condemn the man? Who knows the reasoning behind the whale's attack? Of course man---us---should exercise caution and restraint in handling animals. But does that correlate with a man-eating predator? It's not like there was a mass extinction---which by the way is the natural order. I believe something like 90% of all animal life ever on earth has become extinct. We may be responsible for some, but certainly so tiny a percentage of the total as to be miniscule. Our Liberal friends and animal lovers must get a grip and face reality. Human rights are not endowed upon other animals.

Obama Bows Again or Who is Hu?

2011-01-18T15:52:00.001-05:00

*This picture of our President Obama meeting Chinese President Hu here in 2010 again shows how Obama simply can't help himself. He bows before every foreign power he can, and this time to a murderous Communist who happens to control a vast economy. And just earlier in the year, February, his protocol chief led the Dalai Lama out of the White House via a side door, next to piles of trash and garbage bags. I guess to get lavish treatment in the Obama White House you have to be responsible for massive human rights violations and other crimes against humanity.

*I was watching 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' and something dawned on me. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Charlie Rangel, Chucky Schumer, Maxine Waters, Rosa DeLauro and the rest of their wimpy Democrat Friends would never have done anything that Sarah has done: no mountain climbing, skiing, bear or moose hunting, mushing, gold panning---even skeet shooting for them. They'd never have a chance. Nor would they survive if they were younger and in better shape. I'll bet they wouldn't know what to do with a vacuum cleaner either. You see, when you concentrate too much on politics, you don't learn anything of real life. Do we have another Teddy Roosevelt in our midst?

*In re Juan Williams idea that Sarah Palin is not at the intellectual level of Obama: The 'intellectual' Liberal chowderheads don't think anyone is their equal. Meanwhile they and their policies continue to sink our Country, municipality by municipality, city by city, State by State, and our Country as a whole. We don't want them!! I don't care how intelligent they think they are. After all, 'intelligent' is the adjective provided by fellow Liberals. And who can trust a Liberal anymore? Juan Williams is a Liberal, and an Obama fawn. His opinion counts for zilch. The Conservatives only watch him for fodder for their columns and speeches. He never adds anything substantive. Sarah Palin is a full American, not an elite Ivy Leaguer who thinks the World must bow down before his policies, and he must bow down to foreign potentates. She's lived a normal life, had to finance her education, has quickly adapted herself to the center stage and preached common sense [something Obama knows nothing about.] I'd vote for her over Obama in a heartbeat.

*A quote from the Declaration of Independence 1776: "...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security..." 2012 can't come soon enough for me.

The Ballots, the Vote, and New Year's Wishes

2010-12-15T00:13:00.002-05:00

*It's absolutely ridiculous that some States were late in sending out their absentee ballots, especially those to our troops. There is no excuse for disenfranchising parts of our citizenship and military. If the problem is the primaries, they should all be held before the ballot mailing-out date, allowing for printing. And there's no excuse for allowing two weeks after election day to count the returned ballots. These things can be properly counted in a much shorter span of time. The extra time probably allows a very small percentage of late mailed ballots to arrive. These can still be counted. But the majority received within a week should be counted within a few days of election day. All the extra time allows the Democrat machine to challenge and eliminate votes [or find them in car trunks]---the latter which will likely be heavy in Democrat votes. I suggest States and municipalities put on extra supervised help to count them 24hrs each day. If they need money, they should reduce other budgets by 1%, or reduce executive salaries by 10%. That would be especially fruitful for those municipalities with executives earning a ridiculous $500 K to a $million. It would also seem fair to assess all candidates a %age sum from their campaign contributions to pay for the vote counting.

*It's time to support the many sheriffs around the Country [and ultimately ourselves] in their efforts to stem the illegal immigration flood. One idea is to sue ACLU for aiding, abetting, and otherwise supporting illegal aliens breaking our laws. Others: have the border States declare emergencies and seal off their southern borders with State Guard troops; pressure the Federal Government to act to find and deport illegal immigrants; it's not racism to stop and search those races having the majority of illegal immigrants. [Does one search Tall or Short men when the perp is identified as being 5' 4"?] Federal Democrats and the Obama administration have made it clear they won't control the inflow. [Thus abrogating their Constitutional directives.] Why? Simple. They want votes from the illegals and their ethnic brothers. And that's why they're pushing the Dream Act. Get wise Americans before we go bankrupt funding these people with medical care and welfare.

*Despite the questionable Constitutionality, I think it's time to revisit the Alien Friends' Act: "The Alien Friends Act (officially An Act Concerning Aliens; ch. 58, 1 Stat. 570---passed during an undeclared Naval war with France: the Quasi War) authorized the president to deport any resident alien considered "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States." It was activated June 25, 1798, with a two year expiration date." We're at war with the terrorists now, and we're fighting for our survival. We need this protection. We can't just sit around while the terrorists vegetate and then suddenly blow something up killing people with abandon. This is especially horrendous since, for in many cases, we know who these guys are. We're reaching a position of choice: protect the rights of the terrorists to terrorize us or protect ourselves by getting rid of them. Having a fine Constitution doesn't mean much when you're dead.

*According to the pc politician, Michael Posner[Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner]: "...we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination..." I guess that means that Hispanics [legal and illegal] and Blacks will be favored everywhere just because of their race, and the 'possibility' of discrimination somewhere or sometime. Never mind that the Blacks and Hispanics are interested in their own progress, and not in what the government can legislate for them. Never mind the existent majority of Americans from Ireland, Italy, Great Britain, France, Germany, Thailand, China, Japan etc.---or even the Indian [American and Asian] populations who aren't so favored by these ill-conceived laws. The majority of Americans are the ones being discriminated against these days. Never mind need, decide things based on race so you can't be called a racist. And be sure to bow down to Muslims in America [who train terrorists, condemn America, and threaten free speech and our actual existence] to show how tolerant you are of the intolerant, misogynistic 'religion of peace'---the latter being an oxymoron. Like the old joke, it's a matter of 'piece', as in 'a piece of this and a piece of that' until even the left is locked out. How do like them apples, Mr Posner? Should we call you an American apologist first and an American citizen second?

*When you have thousands of Muslims dancing in the streets in numerous Mid-Eastern cities when the twin towers were destroyed and nearly 3,000 Americans were killed, I don't believe you can claim that 'Muslim extremists' are the problem. The problem is in the Muslim Koran, religious commentaries and traditions and exhortations about death to infidels and the old 'spreading the religion by the sword'---as was demonstrated when the Moors attacked and controlled for some time European countries who didn't want them there. It took Charles 'the Hammer' Martel to finally stop their march. [Among others at the time.] People talk about their buildings these days instead of the many thousands---if not millions---of people killed so that the Muslims could conquer the territories of the 'infidels.' And of course, they built celebration Mosques where they conquered the locals [sound familiar New York?] There's little if anything peaceful about the 'religion' [I still maintain that it's nothing more than a violent cult] and there's much to fear about the way the Muslims react to criticism or human rights. [What's a few bombings, beheadings, tortures, beatings, etc. among friends? Eh?]

*Taxpayers Beware

You've been hearing about the politicians squabbling over the 'Bush Tax Cuts' expiring on December 31. They aren't the only difficulties facing taxpayers. Consider these:

The so-called Bush Tax Cuts expiring; those cuts from 2001 and 2003:

Personal income tax rates will rise: 10% to 15%; 25% to 28%; 28% to 31%; 33% to 36%; and 35% to 39.6%. The latter rate is that which subjects 2/3rds of all small business profits. Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will phase out according to income.

The narrower tax brackets for married couples [the marriage penalty] will return from the first dollar of income; the child tax credit will be cut from $1000 to $500; the standard deduction won't be doubled for married couples [from the single deduction]; dependent care and adoption tax credits will be cut.

There is currently no estate tax at death. For estates created after January 1, the top rate will again be 55% on estates over $1 million. The latter could be reached by taxpayers with two homes and an IRA.

Capital Gains tax rates will rise from 15% to 20%. The dividends tax goes from 15% to 39.6%.

See anything in there that involves only millionaires? I didn't think so. Don't believe all the rhetoric from the left.

As for ObamaCare, we want it repealed or defunded and defanged when the GOP comes in. But, until then you have even more taxes to look forward to next month.

ObamaCare prevents you from using your Health Savings Account [HSA], Flexible Spending Account [FSA] or Health Reimbursement Account [HRA] to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medications.

A new cap for FSAs will be $2500 as opposed to the current no limit. This will devastate parents of special needs children, who must pay for special schools and programs for their kids with only after-tax income.

An increase in tax penalty for early withdrawals from an HSA from 10% to 20%.

And the full Obamacare program isn't scheduled to start until 2014---AFTER OBAMA IS GONE!!!

Also scheduled for 2011:

A multi-$billion tax assessment on brand-name drug manufacturers. Like all other excise taxes, these will increase the cost of medications to you and me.

NB: "The IRS is now empowered to disallow perfectly-legal tax deductions and maneuvers merely because it judges that the deduction or action lacks “economic substance.” This is obviously an arbitrary empowerment of IRS agents," says Americans for Tax Reform

NB: Employers will be required to report the costs of provided Health Insurance on your 2011 W-2. While this isn't a tax, it'll make it very easy for the taxation of these health benefits very soon. The aren't asking requiring this information for nothing, you know.

And there's a lot more coming folks. Each month, our friends down in Washington are doing their best to bankrupt and subjugate us. We took one step to correct the horrors in 2010. Now we've got to finish the job in 2012. Tea and muffins for the masses! Just don't use incandescent lightbulbs.

*How interesting is the word 'Vote.'

The word comes from the late Middle Ages; it's from the Latin 'votum', a vow.

Its formal Ask definition is 'a formal expression of opinion or choice, either positive or negative, made by an individual or body of individuals' or 'the means by which such expression is made, as a ballot, ticket, etc. As a verb, Ask says 'to express or signify will or choice in a matter, as by casting a ballot: to vote for president. Or with an object, 'to enact, establish, or determine by vote: to vote a proposed bill into a law.

Mix the letters a bit, and you have 'Veto.' Veto comes from about 1629, from the Latin 'veto', literally 'I forbid. It was used by Roman tribunes who opposed measure of the Senate or magistrates. The verb is recorded from 1706, 1620-30...'

Ask goes on to say: 'to reject [a proposed bill or enactment] by exercising a Veto.' Or 'to prohibit emphatically.'

Using three of letters gives us 'Vet.' While the main use of that word is 'short for 'veterinarian', many of us use it as 'short for 'veteran.' [It's also used as a verb to describe a process of investigation of a person's background.]

And isn't 'Vet' an apt word derived from the noun 'vote?' For it was the active duty military who constantly protect us and keep us safe. They give us protection for our Constitution and way of life, and without them we could never have a 'free vote.' And we should never forget that. The Soldiers and Sailors and Marines and Airmen and Coast Guard are on duty 24/7, and we're appreciative of their efforts. Their existence is a necessary component of our Country's survival, and we should never force them to undertake unnecessary burdens---especially those thrust upon them to be 'politically correct.' We are wrong to be restricting their abilities to protect us by requiring ridiculous rules of engagement that practically give the enemy standing targets.

And if we take the word 'Veto' and exchange an 'i' for an 'e', we have my grandfather's name, Vito.

* For the New Year, these would be great gifts to the Nation, especially if retro-active to include those politicians in office now:

1. Islam would reform from a cult to a religion. It should split, leaving all the hate and violence to the extremists, purge the hate from the revamped Koran---it was made up of bits and pieces and aberrations of comments and Jewish and Christian items to temper all the hate, misogynism, and violence in the original. The religion-arising-from-the-cult should actively fight against terrorism, cut the hate rhetoric from it's Imams [fire them and jail them if possible---preferably Guantanamo or some other appropriate place. 'Gulag' comes to mind.] It's only through reforms like these than peace has a chance in the US and the World. It'll never happen, but it's still a good idea.

2. Plea bargains should not be permitted for ethics violations; a public trial should be held and shown on C-Span; conviction should lead to expulsion from the House or the Senate. Charlie and Maxine call your offices.

3. Financial information required from Representatives, Senators, the President, and other administration officials should be more exact and specific, allowing no wiggle room. Spousal ownership should not be permitted to create a loophole.

4. Send our armed forces in great numbers to root out the drug lords, sellers, and cartels operating in the US and terrifying and destroying our citizens. Catch them and send them where the Sun don't shine! Sic the IRS on them after the army builds barbed wire fences around them. Retain the illegality of drugs, but tax confiscatingly the profits of the drug lords. [Say a straight rate of 99%] We should also stop public funding of any leftist cause, especially PBS, NPR, and the NEA.

5. Identify and deport all illegal aliens immediately if not sooner. Sorry for the disruption of families, but we didn't invite you here, especially to destroy our welfare resources. And take your kids with you. Since they're mostly Mexican, the reasonable stopping of Hispanic lawbreakers cannot be considered racial profiling. This is a matter of National Security. Reducing the costs created by the illegals would go a long way towards spurring economic recovery. If some of these aliens want to take the legal way to enter this Country and become citizens, they would be welcomed with open arms just like all other immigrants who have made the effort.

6. Term limits are a must for all political offices. It's time to return to the citizen-politician. National elective political office should not be a career. Petitioning for a vote of confidence of the President should be permitted. If 60% of the vote taken agrees, the second vote of the electorate should decide on confidence or not. If the President loses, he and his administration must call a Presidential election within 90 days. The new administration should be sworn in within 60 days of the election. No Presidential pardons allowed during the lame duck period. We have a dangerous, un-American man in the White House these days who's dismantling our Country, and we need a way to remove him without getting stuck with Joe Biden. Remember, it's a matter of survival.

7. Appropriate applications should be completed for those aspiring to all political offices. [See my blog of 7/31/10]

8. Liberalism, especially the far left type, should be added to the Psychiatric book of disorders and treated appropriately.

Aahh! Now those are gifts to be proud of.

Revelations

2010-11-02T16:32:00.004-04:00

Friends, a short time ago, I received an email from my brother [the well-known 'dhimmitude' email], and I passed it on to a few others. Recently, I received back a nasty comment of an email, and I wanted to answer it. If, after reading this you still disagree with me, by all means comment on it---or if you need anonymity, email me at tnmccoy@comcast.net

Here is the email: "In case you hadn't figured it out by now, this is bull. http://www.factcheck.org/2010/05/dhimmitude-and-the-muslim-exemption/ Please don't send me things that are not carefully fact checked, no matter how much you think they support racism and religious intolerance."

To my Liberal friend:

First to the actual words on your email. What I sent you is not 'bull, I do know the facts, and I resent your insult about racism and religious intolerance. For the latter, you owe me an apology. Make sure you provide one.

In re your reference to FactCheck.org: I assume you know the difference between apples and oranges? Now, I've plowed through the ObamaCare law completely. Have you? Fact Check is talking about health insurance per the employer point of view. [The entity who's supposed to offer the insurance.] ---and I wouldn't take a terrorist leaning group's quotes too seriously. [CAIR] The whole Fact Check article talks about health insurance from only one point of view, which doesn't refute anything in the subject email since the latter is based on the personal point of view: i.e., the person who's supposed to buy the insurance. A simple but profound difference. Fact Check [a Liberal site] is so quick to attack an email that it backs it's own claim by talking about something else. And you didn't pick up on the difference?

The writer of the original email may have been upset, though I think it was written purposely to get others upset...a sort of wake-up call---something that's certainly needed. And PC Democrats/Liberals are in great need of it. As the old joke goes about the recalcitrant talking mule, 'you have to hit him over the head with a two x four to get his attention. And sometimes hyperbole can be very effective when warning people about the dangers confronting them.

Many Islamic scholars [such as Sheikh Muhammad Al-Munajjid] "...criticize the system of conventional insurance [health or otherwise] as exploitive and unjust..." The many illegal Muslims [read terrorists, because that's why they're here illegally] will demand free healthcare when they need it. Someone who's willing to blow himself up is certainly not going to shell out money to buy a detested insurance policy. His 72 virgins wouldn't approve. The part of the ObamaCare law pertaining to exemptions is very vague and open to interpretation, which is how laws are written so as to provide wiggle room and increase the income of lawyers in general. And this one will be exploited---probably by more than the Amish and the Muslims. But based on the Washington climate at the moment, the Muslims get pretty much whatever they want, and that includes this exemption.

In a recent poll it was said that 45% of the Muslim responders would seek an exemption: "I would seek an exemption on religious grounds. I believe conventional insurance is haraam [an Arabic term meaning forbidden.]

The term 'dhimmitude' was first used in 1982 by Lebanese President Bachia Gemayel. It was based on the Arabic word 'dhimmi', a protected [read subjugated,] non-Muslim resident in a Sharia law state. 'Dhimmitude' was meant to mean concession, surrender, and appeasement toward Islamic demands. And that's exactly what's happening in our country today.

French writer Bat Ye'or [in an Italian magazine] used the term to 'represent a behavior dictated by fear [terrorism], pacifism when aggressed.' 'By their peaceful surrender to the Islamic Army [terrorists and maniacs---you know the kind], they obtained the security for their life, belongings and religion, but they had to accept a condition of inferiority, spoliation, and humiliation.' When the entire Muslim world is shouting death to the West, beheading and bombing people, and using petro-dollars to fund all sorts of terrorism throughout the World---including against their fellow Muslims; when they dance in the streets at the news of the fall of the World Trade Center buildings---these are the attempts to subjugate the West and force it to accept Muslim presence and culture, in effect to force 'dhimmitude.' [And the conquest Muslim center near ground zero is another slap in the face.]

The purpose of the original email---though I would have prepared it differently---is to shock people to wake up and see what is happening in this Country, especially in this administration. When the President kowtows to foreign potentates; sends state laws to the UN for review; bankrupts the economy; follows junk science; takes over private businesses; appoints socialists, crooks and tax cheats to Federal offices; attempts to force socialism on the country; and even refuses to release his birth and education records, what are the people supposed to think and do?

Nowhere in the original email is there a mention of race or racism. You have simply followed the Liberal mantra of injecting 'racism' into anything you want, probably just to muddy the waters. I thought you were smarter than that. And, if you'd ever read my blogs, you'd see that I never present racist writing or thoughts nor do I condone them. If I ever mention the subject, I'm specific about it. We are talking here about Muslims, and they can be of any race. So don't read your own motives into someone else's writing so you can throw out the term 'racism' and feel good about yourself.

As to religion, you won't find religious intolerance in the original email or in anything I've ever said or wrote. I consider Islam a violent cult, not a religion. It's akin to the Thuggee cult of in 19th Century India. There're also the violent 'Kali' or 'Kali Ma' cults---men hating ones. And Islam proves itself as a violent cult every day with its innate barbarism [female circumcision, beheadings, 'honor' killings etc.] and misogyny. It's a cult that seems stuck in the seventh Century. So don't feed yourself with the pap that: people genuinely afraid of the growing Muslim presence and influence create an act of religious intolerance. They don't. [Who we need is a modern-day Charles 'the Hammer' Martel.] Despite what Obama says, this is a predominantly Christian Country. And most people want it to remain so.

One sentence in the original email I have a beef with is: 'The ObamaCare bill is the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia Muslim diktat in the United States.' I can acknowledge that this statement isn't true---at least on the face of it. But one must take into consideration the whole ObamaCare law. The entire law leaves enough loopholes to make Socialism and dhimmitude perfectly reasonable inferences from the details. And people all around the Country are genuinely in fear. [To paraphrase from the Terminator: 'it will not stop, and it'll keep on coming until it conquers you.'] Between that fear and the economic, social, political disaster based in the Congress and the White House, you can see where all the anger is coming from.

I also take exception to the idea that 'Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be 'gambling', 'risk-taking', and 'usury' and is thus banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this.' -- There is no specificity in the law. These complaints are a little over the top, but they indicate what the fearful public is experiencing with the Democrats [Nancy Pelosi] saying 'we have to pass the bill so we can know what's in it', the President kowtowing to anything foreign, and the easy acceptance of everything Muslim in the White House. Most people, including Representatives and Senators still haven't read and don't know what's in the law. Just try to quiz one.

So, ,,, , if you want discourse, then by all means start one with me. Either email me your comments or add them to the blogs. And be specific with real examples of your concern. Don't just call things you don't agree with 'bull' or throw in 'racism' because as a Liberal you think you think you have to.

I'm sending a modified copy of this to all the people I forwarded the original email to---just in case there are some Liberals out there who might think like you and need their minds opened.

Keep an open mind when reading the articles linked below . You might learn something. Both Dr Walter Williams and Dr Thomas Sowell are respected economists, teachers, and authors. And I suggest you do your own thinking and research on subjects for discussion, and stop relying on Liberal tripe. Your mind will feel cleaner.

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Walter Williams

http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2010/10/27/our_contemptible_congress/page/full/

Thomas Sowell

1 http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/10/26/brass_oldies/page/full/

2 http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/10/27/brass_oldies_part_ii/page/full/

3 http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/10/28/brass_oldies_part_iii/page/full/

Mervyn F Bendle

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7769/pub_detail.asp

"Wherever Islam goes, so goes its ethos." - Amil Imani

Where's the Beef? - When You Need It?

2010-10-11T01:05:00.001-04:00

*Some people want to know why I criticize the Democrats/Liberals and Obama all the time. Hey! It's not like it's a mission in life. I'd rather sit around and read Westerns. Sadly, though, we have a media that sits in the corner with the Democrats/Liberals and Obama and won't report the truth. Not enough Conservative writers are available to the general public, so I add what I can. And it's not so much criticizing as it is airing the truth about what is happening and what our representatives are up to. These guys are transparent all right. You can see straight through their lies, phony boasts, anti-Americanism, and utter incompetency. I'm not a loud voice, but I try always to write the truth about what's happening. As did Clara Peller, I just want to ask: 'Where's the beef?'

*When the Democrats concoct a bill and name it a 'reform' bill, you can be sure it isn't. The proof is not in the packaging or labeling, it's in the action. Nothing the Dems consider will ever be done if it hurts their own pockets [or those of the special interests they usually rail against or share a bed with---Unions, Muslims, the Liberal media, Government Motors] or goes contrary to picking the pockets of the American citizens. Once they tax and charge and fee and penalize the populace equal to its entire income, then what? It seems that's the only way to stop the Liberals, though they'd still borrow to fund even more 'reform'---and blame it on the Republicans, is to get rid of them. Any people out there who vote Democrat deserve the mess, but the rest of us don't. Let's go November!

*According to Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor [as seen through the eyes of leftist?] Michael Posner: "...we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination..." I guess that means that Hispanics [legal and illegal] and blacks will be favored everywhere just because of their race, and the 'possibility' of discrimination somewhere or sometime. Never mind the majority of Americans from Ireland, Italy, Great Britain, France, Germany, Thailand, China, Japan etc.---or even the Indian {American and Asian] populations. The majority of Americans are the ones being discriminated against these days. Never mind need, decide things based on race so you can't be called a racist. And be sure to kowtow to Muslims in America [who train terrorists, condemn America, and threaten free speech] to show how tolerant you are of the intolerant, misogynistic 'religion of peace'---the latter being a misnomer if there ever was one. Like the old joke, it's a matter of 'piece', as in 'a piece of this and a piece of that' until even the left is locked out. How do like them apples, Mr Posner? Or should we call you an American apologist first and an American citizen second?

* Isn't there a federal law against willfully damaging an antique in the public trust?

What kind of desk does the President sit behind in the Oval Office? It's the Resolute Desk, a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B Hayes in 1880---that's 130 years ago folks! Most Presidents have used it---whether in the Oval Office or their private studies---with the exception of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford. I don't know what they used, but I'm sure it wasn't orange crates.

HMS Resolution was a British ship of the Edward Belcher expedition looking for the Northwest passage. It became stuck and was abandoned in the ice---later found near Baffin Bay by the American whaler George Henry---James Buddington commanding. The US bought her, refitted her, and presented her to Queen Victoria on December 17, 1856 as a symbol of peace.

Years later, when it was broken up, the British Government had at least two desks made from the timbers of the Resolute by the cabinet makers at the Joiner's Shop of Chatham Dockyard. In 1880, they sent one---a partner's desk---to President Rutherford B Hayes as a thank you for rescuing and refitting HMS Resolute and returning it to Great Britain in 1856.

In any case, the Desk is an honored and valuable antique, a National treasure, and some say 'an icon of the Presidency.' For the most part, Presidents have treated it and the oval office with the respect due them. Until President Clinton and the latest fraud that is. Clinton used the Oval Office for his sexual trysts. Obama uses it as a lounge. [He routinely sits back in his chair with shod feet up on top of the desk.]

Can you think of any good reason why a servant of the people should treat American property and tradition as he does? Not only that, but he trashes the spirit, the sense of honor, the American economy, the American people, and the Constitution with impunity. He tries to socialize, Islam-a-size, and Communist-a-size the Country while defanging its defense and kowtowing to foreign potentates. You guys who voted for him should be hung up by your nose hairs. This President is a disgrace and insult to the American people.

*Felicity Cloake [UK Daily Mail, August 11, 2010] says: "The UN is considering strategies to cut levels of meat consumption worldwide [and replace the protein with---grubs and bugs?---] as part of its commitment to stamp out famine and cut global warming." Sure, shut down the production tasty and acceptable meat, which is a basic protein, and replace the loss with bugs? Does anyone have any idea how many jobs would be lost? It's not like people can be retrained to run 'bug farms.' Has anyone tested for bug flatulence lately? And who will take care of the cattle and horses thus unemployed? This is simply another inane idea from the leftist UN which still believes in man-made global warming. Does anyone think the UN officials are going to serve bugs at their state dinners? They should set an example you know.

*According to Newsmax.com on August 16: "A Hamas leader says Muslims 'have to build' a mosque near ground zero." At last. Somebody agrees with Obama. He should be proud.

*As reported by CNS: "Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that Jesus’s Golden Rule inspired him to vote to confirm Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court" - This is another example of my losing respect and confidence in Lindsay Graham. He is proving to be a dangerous RINO, and he needs to go. Besides, the 'golden rule' is not even appropriate for the situation. If he needs a bible quote, how about this one: "Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple. 1 Corinthians 3 v 16-17" Kagan believes in abortion as a good thing guaranteed by the Constitution [it isn't---and it isn't a right in the moral sense either.] She should never have been voted in. What the Country needs is another sane voice in the Supreme Court, not another John Paul Stevens. Since Graham doesn't understand this, then he should be given the heave-ho!

*USA Today reports: "...Designed to thwart the reproduction, raising and sale of sick, deformed or otherwise less-than-healthy pets...lemon laws are more and more being used...[in re pets; to help recoup losses]...Because there's almost nothing worse than investing your emotions in a "perfect" puppy or kitten only to learn that it suffers from a debilitating, life-altering — or even deadly — disease." [Sound familiar?] So you get your money back. But what happens to the lemon-lawed pets? Are they destroyed? Of course. This is the whole idea. Perfect or else. Animal euthanasia is easy entry into the same for people. Just ask our seniors who are having Medicare cuts and less than reasonable treatment under the new health plan. Will lemon laws now migrate into the abortion debate? Will we be suing doctors for delivering less-than-perfect children? Will we then put them asleep---all as an extension of the spurious 'right' of abortion? You people who support killing babies are going to rue your words, votes, and positions more and more.

*Per the Washington Examiner of May 29: "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., blamed the Bush administration for any lack of oversight leading up to the Gulf oil spill." Per Fox News on August 13: "Embattled Rep. Maxine Waters on Friday blamed the Bush administration for her ethics problems." Per the Personal Liberty Digest of August 18: "During a 90-minute press conference, Representative Maxine Waters vehemently denied breaking House conflict-of-interest regulations by allegedly helping garner Federal support for a troubled bank that had close ties to her husband."

Per the Des Moines Register July 26 in re the Obama Stimulus money: "Goldman Sachs sent $4.3 billion in federal tax money to 32 entities, including many overseas banks, hedge funds and pensions, according to information made public..." Per the Wall Street Journal August 2: "...Obama is attempting to blame the [Bush and the] GOP for the U.S. economy’s current woes..." Per The Hill on May 25: "Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Tuesday said partial blame for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico lies with the Bush administration." Per the Daily Caller on February 6: "...Faced with mounting national opposition to his party’s platform, the President reminded voters the real reason the trillion-dollar stimulus package still hasn’t reduced unemployment to 8 percent as promised: Bush did it, and it’ll take a lot of time to undo it."

President Bush and his administration have been gone for some 19 months. At what point do Obama and the Congress [collective or individually] start taking the heat for their own actions in making a bad situation worse, fanning the flames, adding more fuel to the flames. When the House collapses or burns down, perhaps taking the incompetent Obama with it, will we continue to hear forever the his vocal: "I didn't do it with my little burned match sticks! Bush did it! Bush did it!---echoed by the dead and buried Pelosi and Reid and Frank and Dodd ad infinitum.

*It's time to tell the World we can't support them anymore. All the socialist, communist, and otherwise poorly run countries are going to have to fend for themselves for two or three years. Anyone asking for help thereafter is going to have to prove the need and the fact that it isn't going to waste it on banana governments. We will still be willing to buy goods at fair prices to help those growing countries shed their banana images.

Up Front and Due to the Left

2010-08-10T15:57:00.000-04:00

*I notice that when Liberals post their opinion columns on the news of the day, they tend to block reader commenting. Dr Michio Kaku opines in the WSJ on 7/27/10---copied on his site---where the comments are closed on 7/27/10 with no comments shown! He's wrong in his opinion of course, and it doesn't take a scientific or political genius to see where he's wrong, nor does it take a genius to know why he won't take criticism. All the time, I come across Liberals who simply won't defend their positions as Liberals or accept criticism of their writings. In fact, some NY Times columnists have drastically shortened the comments allowed at the end of their columns because they were being shown up by the facts being posted.

*According to the AP in June, UK doctors claim that a fetus can't feel pain before 24 weeks. They say 'that nerve connections in the brain are not sufficiently formed to allow pain perception before 24 weeks.' Is that so? I imagine they interviewed aborted babies to find this out? Their opinions are erring on the safe side of life? Are they sure of 24 weeks? What about 23 weeks and 6 days? What about 23 weeks, 6 days and 23 hours? All life feels pain, and don't forget it or make excuses for killing babies in the fetal form.

On a related note, I personally don't think the nerve or thinking connections in the brains of Liberals are sufficiently formed to assist the Liberal in speaking sense. But do we abort them? Of course not. They're almost as smart as babies, and it takes years for their mental aberrations to appear.

*And the apparently brain-dead U.S. Judge Vaughn R. Walker [appointed by Bill Clinton], "who ruled last week that a voter-approved amendment to California's constitution [Proposition 8] that limited marriage to the union of a man and a woman violated the U.S. Constitution" [CNS,Terence P. Jeffrey, August 9, 2010] now claims that his decision was "based that ruling in part on his finding that a child does not need and has no right to a mother...Nor, he found, does a child have a need or a right to a father." That's in the Constitution? He then goes on to quote from a special interest "American Psychological Association (APA)" brochure---but only from those parts in it that support his decision. This man is in a position of legal power! For the good of our Country, overturning his ruling, and his subsequent impeachment and conviction should be quick and painless.

*As noted by Martin Crutsinger of the AP, President Barack Obama appointed a national debt commission to report after the November midterm elections on ways that the federal deficits can be brought under control. Naturally, he won't ask for the report before. It would increase the carnage for the Democrats in midterm elections. Most likely, the report will identify---but downplay---one easy way to cut the deficit: CUT THE SPENDING! I can tell you that for free---I don't need no stinking commission! And also most likely, Obama and friends will ignore it completely or make cuts where they hurt average people most, leaving the fat and pork and paybacks to the Big Unions and other Liberal supporters alone---or actually increasing the latter. That will be accompanied with tax increases all over the place, especially on the rich [with a new definition of rich as earnings of $20,000 a year or more.]

*They're still debating about the so-called 'ground zero Mosque' and whether or not it should be built. The mindless bureaucrats in NYC apparently okayed it [and continue to support it] without appropriate public input. [It seems Liberals in the Clinton era tried to follow polls; Liberals these days do the opposite.] This is a National discussion, folks. Not just for New York City. I'm all for religious tolerance, but this has nothing to do with it. It was Muslims who killed 3,000 people that day in 2001. Islam by nature supports violence and hatred. Islam is decidedly not peaceful. Islam is misogynistic. Islam permits all sorts of lying and cheating to gain its ends. Stop me when I hit a nerve. And what about all this makes it a religion? What is the definition of religion and how does a violent institution such as Islam rate such a category? Didn't the Government create the WACO tragedy because of something like this?

All the articles I've read about Islam in the mainstream [Liberal] media only discuss the 'good' things, or the things that seem to parallel real religions. Haven't those authors actually read the Koran? Such authors always leave out the call to arms to spread the 'religion' by the sword [something nearly accomplished in 8th century Europe had it not been for Charles 'The Hammer' Martel stopping it], killing the infidel, misogynist, dangerous and unnecessary female circumcisions, 'honor' killings, beheadings, bombing and gassing of the Western 'infidels' and other delicacies that turn the stomach. This isn't the 7th Century, folks. We the people aren't the slaves and criminals that Mohammed gathered together way back then. The Koran is based on his rambling thoughts supposed to be 'recorded' by his loyal followers. Liberals don't want to hear anything negative about Islam. Christianity? Yes. Judaism? Yes. Conservatives? Absolutely---especially if it isn't true. And most of the negatives for the latter three religious or philosophical disciplines are created out of nothing by many in the media---and in Congress and the White House by others of the Liberal persuasion.

The government under Obama seem either afraid of, or supporting of Islam. And that's an extremely dangerous position for the Country.

I oppose the building of a mosque, cultural or terrorist recruiting center or whatever you want to call it near ground zero. I oppose building it in New York or any other State. We don't need more propaganda nor another place to recruit militant Muslims. It's not religious tolerance, it's public safety. Our Country, our freedoms, our peaceful existence must be preserved. Do we need another 9/11 before you Liberals wake up? Are you going to 'tolerate' us down the tubes to destruction?

*Meanwhile, back in Washington. "The Obama administration forecasted the 2011 deficit---which begins Oct. 1---will remain above $1 trillion for a third straight year, rising to $1.27 trillion. And Obama predicts the deficits over the next decade will total $8.5 trillion." And naturally, the Democrat's solution is to raise taxes and cut tax deductions. They don't study history, so it doesn't occur to them that drastic spending cuts are the order of the day. Left to itself, the free market system will correct and bring the economy back. Government bailouts and overspending only make matters worse. This is proved by history. How to get out of a recession? CUT TAXES! And isn't this spiraling deficit that our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren etc. have to pay over and above the artificially high tax rates a form of child abuse? Sounds like it to me, and Obama should be called on the carpet because of it. After all, he wanted to be in charge.

* David Patten wrote on August 6: "Signs are growing that the administration's inner circle of economic advisers — once hailed as the "dream team" — appears to be cracking under the pressure of yet another dismal jobs report and reports of dissension within the White House ranks over what to do about the stagnant economy." Surprise!

*You'd hope that by this time in life, these weenie Liberals would have studied history. All their crazy anti-people solutions to problems have been shown by history in this Country and others to not work. This is fact. Their solutions just make bad situations worse. As Casey used to say, 'You can look it up." Liberals continue to believe, despite proof against it, that any problem can be solved by throwing money at it. Economic problems? Bail outs. Raise taxes. Reduce the Federal incoming finances. Unemployment problems? Extend unemployment payments instead of forcing people to actually find work. Never promote the business climate for job creation. Increase welfare. And yet, the Liberals keep trying these failed ideas and then blame the Republicans and Conservatives when they won't work to save the economy made disastrous by their policies. Isn't this something of a definition of mental illness for such Liberals?

The best thing for the economy is to reduce taxes, and then leave the free market system alone to correct itself. No company is too big to fail!!! Wherever there is failure, there will be new companies filling the niches left open. It's always been true in our economic system. Send the Democrat/Liberals on a trip to a desert island where they can't do us any more harm.

*Doesn't President Obama know that President Bush and his administration are out of office? They did not create the current economic problems. Their policies may have hastened the natural cycle of recessions, but Obama and the Democrats have turned the situation into a catastrophe! And they try to solve their problems by throwing more fuel into the fire! Mr Obama, you are not running for election now, so stop with the phony blame game! Be a leader. Or will you try to run for re-election by blaming everything on Bush? Yes, that Bush from four years ago.

*According to the AP and My Way, the House recently approved the expenditure of $600 million to pay for more unmanned drones and 1,500 more agents for surveillance along the US/Mexican border. This would be good news, except that the administration isn't providing any money for actually preventing illegal immigration or returning the successful border jumpers to Mexico. It just wants to watch them come over, give them US rights and expensive welfare and medical, and try to get them to vote for the Democrats. This is not 'protecting' our borders, only watching the crimes continue so as to facilitate further crimes against America.

Application for Candidates for the Offices of Representative, Senator and President of the USA

2010-07-31T21:02:00.004-04:00

This test must be completed by the candidate [not a staff member] at one time, at a controlled location, without staff around, and with independent proctors. Answer the questions without evasion. Time limit is two hours. The candidate must go through an airport-type full body scan before answering the essay questions. Appropriate official documents must be included with each test. The test will be signed at the end to indicate the candidate's true beliefs are presented within, and he/she will not be permitted crib notes, televisors, or other assistance in answering. All cell phones will be confiscated for the duration of the exam. The answers and documents will be reviewed by an independent group. All answers and copies of documents will be released to the public.

1. Where were you born? Under what circumstances? Who were your grandparents? Answer in detail. Did you go to college? Where and for how long? Did you graduate? [submit a transcript and copy of your diploma; submit an official Birth Certificate, and not a certificate of birth that doesn't mean anything.]

2. What is your view on abortion? Do you believe in infant life or death? Do you blame an innocent child for the circumstances surrounding its conception? Expand your answer and give details. How would you respond to the following?: Abortion is not the murder of a human being. Abortion is the murder of a human being. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are viable actions for a modern society.

3. What is your view on the size and scope of the Federal Government? Give details. Do you believe in unlimited taxes on Americans to finance Congressional mandates? How much is enough for a Federal Debt? Where do you draw the line? How can we best reduce the debt and annual deficit and should we? How do you view pork and earmarks? What is the relationship between the States and the Federal Government?

4. Are you a Socialist or Communist or Liberal or Progressive or Conservative or Libertarian or other term? Give examples of your political experience that shows what your ideology really is and why you believe in it. Provide examples of political positions you have held.

5. What are your qualifications for this office? Be specific in your giving of details. What is your prior political or management experience? How does this qualify you for this new elected office you want? Do you believe that judicious bribery is needed to complete political ends? Where would you be comfortable with such an action.

6. Do you take an oath to protect the Constitution as it is written or as you want it to be? Please be specific and expand on your answer. What are your views on Constitutional amendments?

7. Do you support all parts of the Constitution---including the amendments---as written? What part[s] of the Constitution are you against and not likely to protect? Please expand your answer and give examples. For example, the second Amendment to the Constitution reads: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." How do you understand and support this?

8. What is your position on welfare? Will you help rein in the costs? Will you hold fathers responsible for providing support and not disappearing into the sunset? Will you deny persons the collecting welfare when they don't need it? What is your position on ILLEGAL immigration? [Don't confuse it with legal immigration.] Will you support the necessary protection of our borders and reduce illegal immigration logically?

9. Do you support our troops in all ways at all times? [Disregard what their civilian orders are.] How have you shown your support in the past? What is your total view on the military? Please expand your answers with specific examples.

10. Our founding fathers were religious, and they included God in their writings and documents. They only guaranteed rights in the Constitution. They didn't create them. Do you support God or Atheism in government? The 1st [read: predominate concern] Amendment to the Constitution reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Provide explanations of your beliefs in regard to this Amendment. How does removing crosses from public places, prohibiting school prayer, or banning the use of the word 'God' in political discourse mesh with this 1st Amendment? How do such actions not run afoul of it?

I _________________________ declare that the above answers are true to my beliefs and ideology and make no excuses for them. I have not equivocated or evaded any answer, and I have not simply answered them to best serve my purposes in the upcoming election. And I promise to resign any office I might be in if I ever deviate from this philosophy.

_______________________________________ The signature must be notarized.

Please Note for the Journalists:
The Attitude of candidate when completing the essay questions.
The Length of time taken to complete the essay questions.

The Deficit That Ate Middle America

2010-07-25T20:51:00.006-04:00

*I was watching a health special on Disease Detectives via the Discovery Channel Health the other day. 'Undiagnosed diseases'---actually Hard-to-Diagnose Diseases.' And I was struck by the matter-of-fact statement that the NIH didn't choose to examine or try to diagnose and help a patient if IT DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL. In other words, let's not look into illness that subjects our understanding of health matters to too much strain. We go home at five, you know. Is that what we can expect from Government Health-Care? 'Sorry Joe. We don't know what you have and don't think we can find out. So, you'll die in a hospice---but we'll make you comfortable in your bed---with comics and movies, you know.'

And the NIH serves up to three patients a week. Wow!! The glory of it all! All those $billions for this?

It's all these things about health-care that might slip through the understanding of the public conscience these days as we give hoopla to the vastly expensive health-care system proposed by the 'do as little as you can but make the taxpayers [now and in the future] pay for it' mind-think of Obama and pals. Remember, most of the program won't start until 2014---though the taxes and fines start now [which will be spent on other things---and that'll be two years out from the ousting of Obama. So, the Democrats are set to blame all the upcoming ills on the new administration. No wonder they voted yes. They're planning for the future!

*So says Nancy Pelosi as reported by Real Clear Politics: "It injects demand into the economy," Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said of unemployment checks. "It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name."
Employed Men Wait on line to receive their 'paychecks', called 'Pelosis'
Pelosi calls unemployment checks a "stimulus" that is a "double benefit" helping "those who lost their jobs" and at the same serves as a "job creator" "It's impossible to think of a situation where we would have a country that would say 'we're not going to have unemployment benefits,'" Pelosi said."
*I notice that whenever a non-Liberal paper, position, or action is taken anywhere in sight, the ubiquitous 'critics' are always semi-quoted to attack such a paper, position, or action: such as, 'critics say.'

I believe we should know who the 'critics' are. In many cases, they are radical individuals who have an ax to grind somewhere. The media journalists simply hide all the crazies with a couple of bona-fide people in the catch-all phrase 'critics.'

When the shoe is on the other foot, any critics of a Liberal paper, position, or action are named and identified in detail. Is this a double-standard? Well, you'll never get a journalist to admit it---or any Liberal bias in his/her writing.

*I keep hearing and seeing TV ads for the Democrat's running to be elected Governor of Connecticut. They never mention the Obama administration or the Democrats in general. They claim to be free from 'special interests'---though that term has never has been adequately defined. For Democrats, 'special interests' include anything or anybody not a Liberal. These runners for the Governorship already are beholding to the Democrat/Liberal/Socialist parties, black activist groups, and labor unions---and that means they are bad for any state where they might wield power.

*We need a short essay exam for all wannabes for National political office. To be filled out by the candidate, not his/her staff. [I'm working on a sample now. It'll show up in my blog soon.]

*Between the Obama administration and Liberal judges, our Country may not have long to live. The World's only super power? Not if Obama can help it. His recent releasing of a Yemeni terrorist---with a Liberal judge approval---is just another sign that he doesn't care about America as long as someone somewhere likes him for his action. And, of course, he cannot stand by while a or Muslim is imprisoned for a verified terror act.

*The White House announced a $1.47trillion deficit for this year.
An appropriate tombstone---but with the wrong date. Obama needed another day or two to complete his work.
The White House and the Democrat Congress seem no longer interested in reducing this deficit as in increases our National Debt past $13 trillion. Cost to attend Obama's birthday bash? $30,000 donation to the Democrats. According to Joe Biden: "Biden said now that Wall Street reform is finished and signed into law, the administration could go out and make its political case for its accomplishment." What accomplishment? Near US bankruptcy? $1.4Trillion deficit? $13Trillion National Debt? The ruination of the World's best health-care and society in America? Please Joe explain your accomplishments so the average citizen can understand you. And don't lie about them like you usually do.

*From Joe Biden again: "The vice president said Republicans "are wildly out of step" with popular opinion on a broad range of issues from holding oil companies responsible for cleaning up the spill in the Gulf, to supporting basic regulations that would prevent another meltdown on Wall Street, to extending unemployment insurance to those who lose their jobs." Doesn't a Joe Biden come with ears? So, common sense and a desire to save the economy and the US is "out of touch?" Joe is the epitome of the proverbial snake-oil salesman. When will he stop singing 'What Kind of Fool am I?' at the Congressional All Star Revue?

*The Democrat Congress took the time this year to officially honor golfer Phil Mickelson, the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, NASCAR driver Jimmy Johnson, the Penn State women's volleyball team, and the 142nd season of the Saratoga race course in New York. By the way, the Congress also spent us into a $1.4Trillion deficit while destroying the economy. And, according to Joe Biden, ' all the Congressional work needed has been finished.' For the next 90 days, the Democrats will be in campaign mode.

*Another revelation about the lies from the Democrats/Liberals/Socialists in the administration and Congress: from 'Times Watch' on Media Research Center' website: "FOX News didn't run a report on the controversy until AFTER Sherrod had resigned under White House pressure and AFTER the NAACP had issued a press release condemning Sherrod. Yet in “For Fired Agriculture Official, Flurry of Apologies and Job Offer,” reported by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Shaila Dewan, and Brian Stelter, and written by Stolberg, THE TIMES CHOSE TO BLAME a cabal of “right-wing Web sites” and FOX News for fostering the Sherrod scandal which led to her dismissal. As if Fox forced Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to do its right-wing bidding without ever actually running a single story on Sherrod until AFTER her firing, when the point became moot."

Don't you Democrat/Liberal/Socialist/and sometimes Communist adherents ever get tired of lying? Fox News is a fair and balanced Network and reports news. Only its columnists and show hosts provide opinion---and not always Conservative. I've tried to follow the other news networks---even the regular networks---and found them to be so biased to the left, that I couldn't get a fair report out of them. And the TV networks with shows other than news are also spouting leftist principles. Case in point is NBC's 'Law and Order.' It's drifted so far left now, I can't watch it.

From Right to Left and Back Again

2010-07-08T15:14:00.000-04:00

*Now it seems Nancy Pelosi is on the receiving end of protests from both right and left. The right wants her to stop pushing socialism, stop spending money, and re-organize the government on a more responsible fiscal scale. The left [notably, Code Pink] wants more money. No one seems to realize where the money comes from. It's yours and mine! "And we aren't going to take it anymore!" No more spending! At what point do the Democrats/Liberals expect to stop? A deficit of $3 trillion a year? A debt of $25 trillion? Why do these clowns think that throwing money at a problem and more taxation is the way to correct the ills they themselves created? When the Federal Government declares bankruptcy, are we all going to have to appear in court with our $500,000 per family to pay the debt off? When is enough enough to these people?

*Nancy and her Democrat cronies in Congress are shocked! Just shocked! that the people of the Country are against their efforts to destroy our America. I think being a Democrat, Liberal or a Socialist should be grounds for insanity pleas, and we should lock them all up and try to salvage the Country they've laid waste to before there isn't anything left.

As Grandpa Joad once said: "It's our dirt. It ain't no good, but it's ours." Is that to be all that's left of a once strong, vibrant Country once having the singular force for Democracy, Freedom and Protection? Will Obama and friends leave us nothing more than dirt? I can't wait for November when we can partially clean House and Senate. But as many pundits have predicted, the Democrat/Liberals will lie on the campaign trail to take them to a center position to garner votes. Even now, they've geared up frantically to find 'dirt' on their Republican opponents. [He sassed his Grandmother when he was eight! Is that the kind of guy you want as Senator?] And as soon as they win, they move back to radical left and socialism. When is the electorate going to learn? There is no free lunch. All that pork these guys are sending you is coming out of your own pockets and those of your neighbors and all our descendants across the country and yet to be born! And thanks to the Liberals, murder of our unborn children will lead to fewer descendants to pay the bills.

*In answer to those pundits who think we blame Obama 'for not being God', I'd say he might receive some more support if he were just a good 'community organizer.' But I think any job with responsibility is too big for him. Once again, congratulations to the Liberals, Democrats and Obama apologists [with some overlapping] of the Country that are condoning National destruction.

*Ozzie forever? What can be added to this?
"Ozzy Osbourne wants to leave something of value to humanity when he passes away — his body. - The Black Sabbath front man actually wants to donate his body to science. - The reality show star told Contactmusic it's that amazing he's still alive after his hard-partying past. “By all accounts, I'm a medical miracle,” he explained. - Ozzy’s past addictions include alcohol and prescription drugs. - “When I die, I should donate my body to the Natural History Museum. It's all very well going on a bender for a couple of days but mine went on for 40 years. At one point, I was knocking back four bottles of cognac a day, blacking out, coming to again, and carrying on,” Osbourne said. - If the body of the guy who bit the heads off of small animals is of value to science, maybe he should give his brain to PETA."

Perhaps he should just will his body to the worms which would certainly receive a PETA approval---unless they're allergic to tattoo ink and bad taste.

*CNBC "Teens Face Worst Summer Job Market in 41 Years" The article goes on to say that such jobs are being taken by 'older people' [ages 20-24] to supplement their income. Of course the elderly get their pans too for taking these summer jobs to help pay for the Obama tax revolution. What CNBC fails to recognize, of course is the unconscionably high minimum wage. The idea for a minimum wage was to provide some wage floor for INTRODUCTORY jobs, part-time jobs and the such---and NOT for full time workers supporting a family! With the minimum so high, the employers would rather pay for one usually reliable elderly person rather than a couple of spoiled and pampered teens. Blame the Liberal 'spread the wealth' pioneers in America. They're still around.

*Jimmy Carter is out trying to drum up national comment with his speeches about our 'addiction' to oil. There aren't enough windmills even in the imagination to make up for its loss. We need to build more nuclear plants and to drill for oil and gas on land. Up in Alaska, there's plenty of oil to drill for. Only a few people go up there anyway, so why the concern about such a small plot? [Isn't that safer than the Gulf of Mexico?] And we certainly aren't going to give up crops and sugar to generate ethanol. That won't solve the problem. Anyway, what does he want? Windmills on every car?

*BP ran into problems because it was forced to drill in 5,000 feet of water! That's almost a mile. Drilling on land can be better controlled. So if Jimmy wants to save part of his name recognition, he should be pushing for all of the above [including solar panels and coal] to help us. A growing economy needs power---as does the manifestation of our freedom to move around and insure domestic tranquility---so never mind talking about addictions, just release the restrictions on drilling and building nuclear power plants. As long as we don't have the Russians build the latter, we'll be okay.

*Let's see now. The BP well is still a problem. More oil is gushing [something that wouldn't happen if the environmentalists and Obama had let BP drill closer to land in shallower water.] And what has Obama done? Pretty much nothing but talk. He said no to Dutch and English offers of help and who knows how many other countries. He refuses help from Americans. [Hay on the oil has been proven to work, and a bunch of needed equipment lies unused in Main.] He refuses to let the Louisiana Governor do anything to stem the disaster via Coast Guard blockage. Instead of leaving at least BP to cap the gusher, he points fingers and allows his cronies in Congress to yell and point fingers and otherwise gum up the works. He uses the disaster as an excuse to push more socialist laws through the Congress. Yes. That's our Cart---er Obama.

*We seem to be stuck in Afghanistan for a number of reasons. Among other things, the people don't like us, and they often hide the insurgents. Al-Quaeda and the Taliban build and promote various projects for the people to gain their alliance---though the truth is that once in power, they'll destroy those and the people. And the rules of engagement forced on our soldiers gives them little more war authority than the corner crossing guide. [Excuse me, Mr Terrorist, may I shoot at you?]

*Nancy Pelosi is now saying that unemployment benefits create jobs. And she says that in her motherly-teaching mode, as if anything to the contrary is un-American. Sorry Nancy. Your thinking is what is un-American. You cannot in good conscience equate unemployment checks with job creation. One has no effect on the other. If she would stop Congressional spending, put proper safeguards on immigration and health-care, and leave American small businesses alone, she might actually be helping to create jobs.

So what happens? The Democrats and Nancy Pelosi reject Republican compromises when they want the bill to be paid for by spending reductions. "My concern is that the Democrats are more interested in having this issue to demagogue for political gamesmanship than they are in simply passing the benefits extension," said Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, who offered a deal that was rejected by Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. So, naturally without further ado, the Democrats chastised the Republicans for 'opposing' the benefits with Nancy calling them "just cruel" and "contrary to what our country is about.' Then the agonizing Democrats went on vacation with no further action.

*It's so incomprehensible that so many danger spots against the American state exist and continue while Obama and company eat hamburgers for photo ops, play basketball, or go to the golf course. This country needs protection and defense from the invasion from the south, invasion from the east, and dumbing-down of government via the ridiculous American Liberal outlook on the future.

*It's time for Washington to demand changes in the Mexican border activity and upgrade in human rights. Arizona isn't the problem. Inaction in Washington is. It's like a Cancer. If you don't stop it now, it's simply going to grow larger and kill more and more of the American State.

*In reality, it's going to be a long time before this country trusts and elects another black man as President. And even longer before black men and women are appointed to positions of trust such as Attorney General. It's not because they are black, but the Liberal blacks are the deal breakers. Good black men and women abound in this Country, but the Liberals have ruined politics for them. And why? To gain temporary power? To move the Country's government so far left we can't revive it? These current Liberals are a disgrace for the Country that bred them.

God help us all.

While I'm Working on Something Larger...

2010-05-30T11:53:00.001-04:00

Just some recent observances and thoughts.

*Obama is more interested in the perks of being President than he is in working as President; his only real efforts have been those that increase socialism in the culture and government; under his leadership [?] the defense of our Country is declining, notably at our borders and with our visas allowing all sorts of terrorists entry into our Country; our prestige around the World is seriously declining; he's told one and all that the US doesn't have to be the symbol of greatness in the World; increased the size of government in most areas; bankrupt our Country and increase giveaways, thus ballooning our deficit and National debt

Can you understand this? Obama took an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States. Since then he has: spent us almost to the brink of bankruptcy; appointed socialists and far left radicals to prominent positions in the administration; has appointed non-accountable Czars in important positions of government; has refused to follow Constitutional provisions

*Anyone convicted of terrorist activity should receive the death penalty; too many crimes are committed with the vile perpetrator given short sentences or released 'humanely.' Most of them are suicide bombers anyway. And most are not citizens and should not be tried in the same way citizens are.

*This pc-ism has really gone too far: students suspended for wearing the American Flag; students suspended for removing the Mexican Flag from a school where it should never have been allowed to hang in the first place; students suspended for demonstrating and burning the Mexican Flag; nobody interfered with the Mexicans [legal and illegal] from gathering together and protesting settled law; schools permitted Cinqo de Mayo celebrations on their property; crosses and the Pledge of Allegiance removed from many schools; regular protest marches against an Arizona law to protect the state and do what Federal Law mandates but the Obama administration refuses to enforce, and too many other instances to mention here.

*Obama, through his administration, once again has proven that it is unwilling, unprepared, and incapable of acting to protect our lands. First, Obama refuses to enforce our laws concerning illegal immigration, and now he cannot do anything about the massive oil spill near Louisiana. Besides enjoying the perks of the office, bowing and kowtowing to foreign leaders, and apologizing about the United States to any foreigner who will listen, Obama has been a free-spending know nothing. If it isn't written on the teleprompter it isn't true---even thought the teleprompter often lies. This man and his administration and ideology must go for it is rotting on the vine and may damage the vine itself.

*With socialism and welfare costs spiraling, the EU is about to bite the bullet and probably disband. When the dust clears we'll see more national sovereignty and the return of the Lire, Franc, Mark etc. And, of course, Obama wants us to be more like Europe so they'll like us. The socialism and welfare here may very well bring down the entire government. And the blame will be on Democrats, Liberals, RINOs, middle-of-the-road Pols, and mostly Obama. Congratulations America on your diversity in electing a totally incompetent person to be President. He spends too much time on perks and too little time governing---although that may be a good idea. He'll do less harm. And when it comes to making a decision or policy in favor of the American people? No way, he's off playing basketball or going to the movies.

*So Obama is scheduling yet another vacation during the oil spill crisis. He's going to Chicago and leaving Joe Biden to attend to the National Memorial Day ceremony. What's he vacationing from anyway? He's not doing anything productive to help America. Meanwhile, Gov Bobby Jindal is at his wits end trying to handle the oil spill threatening his state. The Feds are sitting on their hands waiting for BP or Mother Nature to cure all. Jindal is even threatening to go ahead without Federal approval, even if it means jail. So, Obama vacations, the National ceremony gets foisted off to an underling-a-ling, and Louisiana continues to suffer from the spill. Way to go Obama!

*Since I couldn't post this: To 'go-fox-yourself' who posted a thoughtless comment for the article 'Stressed Out or Tone Deaf? Obama Chicago Vacation Raises Eyebrows'. All of the Republican Presidents [Reagan, Bush Sr and Bush Jr] you mention were pro-military and actually worked to insure the strength of our Constitution, military, Country and the respect of the Presidency---and none denigrated their jobs as much as Obama has [or Clinton.] Obama's MIA re the Arlington Cemetery ceremony is not unexpected, nor is it decried. He has no business celebrating such an event anyway---given his ideology and record. And of course, we wouldn't want to interfere with his vacation[s] for National ceremonies or disasters. His lackeys can ignore their responsibilities just as well as he can. It should be clear by now that Obama is NOT interested in the continuation of the American culture or strong defense or International strength and prestige. His biggest interest during his term is for the perks: vacations, movie dates, golf, roasts, playing basketball, talk show visits, beer visits with policeman who did nothing wrong, and the like.

Here We Go Again!

2010-05-09T19:14:00.000-04:00

No, I didn't dry up and blow away. I've been through some of the travails of life. For several weeks I had the flu. For several more weeks I tried to nurse my computer back to health. But I failed. And so did my hard drive. I lost a lot of data I forgot [or couldn't find] to back up as well. Thus I spent time in search and recovery---and recovered nada. Dell sent me a new hard drive, but didn't install it as I had been led to believe. By the time [which by the way, was progressing day by day] we got it installed, I was far behind in my reconstruction of what data I could figure out. Some of the lost data included much from my mail program and the data base I was using for my blogs. Thus, the delay in writing more blogs. I've researched and have made sure all of my important data is now being backed up [called shutting the barn door after the horse in gone] where I can find it. But since I lost all my blogging notes, I'm pretty much starting from scratch. Politically, everything's going the way I expected, so I should still have plenty to write about. For my personal blogs, life still has its quirks to write about. I'll be back soon with more important thoughts.

Only When I'm Through With It

2010-02-17T22:55:00.002-05:00

With apologies to Groucho, Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar, and Grover Jones, I can tell you now what the President was singing at his private dinner last month with his present and prospective advisors [during the duck soup course, of course.]

If any form of pleasure is exhibited
Report to me and it will be prohibited.
I'll put my foot down; So shall it be -
This is the land of the free.

The last man nearly ruined this place
He didn't know what to do with it.
If you think this country's bad off now
Just wait 'till I get through with it.

[President dances with his wife to the sailor's hornpipe]

The treasury is low on dough;
The last man went and flew with it.
If you think we're short of money now
Just wait 'till I get through with it.

[President dances a Highland fling with Mrs Teasdale]

The country's taxes must be fixed -
And I know what to do with it,
If you think you're paying too much now,
Just wait 'till I get through with it.

[The President takes a ney [arabic flute] from his inside pocket and plays an Arab waltz]

It is now a month later. Does anyone really doubt the veracity of this report?

My Wishes for 2010

2009-12-31T23:04:00.002-05:00

In welcoming the New Year, I have many wishes. These are only a few of them.

1. Proper and limited use of the word 'alleged:' I wish newspapers would tone down their constant use of the word 'alleged.' When a person commits a crime with numerous witnesses, or such person truely confesses after being confronted with overwhelming evidence, I don't think the term 'alleged' is appropriate anymore. I know you're not legally guilty until adjudged so by a trial in front of your peers, but there must be exceptions for news reporting of such obvious cases. Even so, most writers aren't exactly sure what the word 'alleged' means. You can tell this by trying to read a news story. The writers are in such a hurry to use the word 'alleged' that they fail to write a proper English sentence. 'The alleged man [as opposed to a real man?] robbed the clerk at gunpoint. [The alleged gun didn't go off.]

2. Properly counting a decade or century: You'd think that by now, the media would have learned how to count to ten. You start with one and you end with 10. That's a decade if you're counting years. Despite what the 'fame jumpers' keep saying, the second millennium started in 2001. Does the last digit there give you a hint? So hold off on your 'decade lists', will you media? Next December [2010] is the time for them.

3. Retire Vince '...you know we can't do this all day...': Vince is among the most annoying people on television. He sounds insincere, and he talks down to the audience. If he handles the ad for a product, I'd be less apt to buy it. In any case, I'd rather listen to repeats of 'Billy Mays here.' His energy is more even than the speedy Vince, and he was a more believable salesman. Another annoying 'Crazy Eddie' type is the beanbag who screams his ads for a hotel liquidating company. He's enough to give the listener heart palpitations.

4. Al and the Volcano: People are always fearful of an active volcano. In fact, there's a near-lame story of 'Joe and the Volcano' where Joe [Tom Hanks] was to be sacrificed to the volcano god to save the people of an island, Waponi Woo. He was to jump inside it while it was spouting---thus appeasing the god [and Abe Vigoda, the Waponi chief] and hopefully calming the volcano and leading it to a dormant state. Well, I think in real life the calming of volcanoes would lead to a cooling of the atmosphere and fewer deaths due to lava flows and pyroclastic activity---as if we need cooling in a cooling era of our planet's cycles. So I wish we should sacrifice Al Gore to the god of the most active and dangerous volcano in the world. We can choose from Merapi in Indonesia, Popocatepetl in Mexico, Vesuvius in Italy, Unzen in Japan, and a few others. Maybe the crackling of the burning fat would calm the fires like oil does to boiling water. And just for good measure, we could also use Michael Moore and George Soros---that would calm two more volcanoes. And consider Nancy Pelosi. Does Botox burn?

5. Excercise?: There's an ad on TV right now for the 'Shaker.' This is a barbell shaped object that you can shake back and forth to tone your arms. The adwoman asks 'when you put on a sleeveless dress, what's the first thing that sticks out?' I don't know about you, but I'm probably in the majority who's answer was not hers. She said 'your arms.' And as anticipated by the advertisers, most of us thought of something else immediately. Anyway, what is this thing? You shake it with your arms, it vibrates and springs back and forth and you lose arm flab. I think they call it 'dynamic inertia..' [Forceful inactivity!] Well, this is nothing new. Check with Nick and Nora Charles and ask how they maintained their lanky and admirable physiques. The answer is simple. As Nick puts it to a bartender, 'a dry martini you always shake to a waltz step.' Enough of that and you have to wonder why there are any fat bartenders. Anyway there's a triple money back guarantee. Now what does that mean? Triple your money back? No. Money back guarantee said three times? Probably. You could also get the benefit by shaking malts at home. But then, the resulting product would negate any shaking benefit. Right? I wish for its quick demise.

6. Stop the Polar Bears!: I'm getting tired of watching Noah Wylie spout his requests that we send money to his charity for the poor, declining polar bear population. First, the money goes into a fund serving other animals. So much for the Polar Bear. Second, I wish Noah would just check the real figures before he jumps on the animal rights wagon. The Polar Bear population is increasing on a regular basis. Planetary cooling and warming are natural events and should be acknowledged as such because we aren't going to change them. Such it is for the polar ice. It'll cycle back again.

7. Baskin & Robbins: Okay, the current B & R ad has the most annoying music and lyrics for ice cream and cake. Those little figures dancing around over everything singing 'ice cream and cake' is enough to send me to Carvel for my desserts. Send B & R to the Back Room.

Finally, there's a soup commercial bragging to us that '..farmers raise vegetables in Campbell soup...' Personally, I'd raise them in the dirt of the fields. But, you can never tell where the next 'growing medium' will come from. Anyway, I wish Campbells would proof-read the ad copy in the New Year.

I wish these all to be eliminated or corrected. [Fat chance!] And I wish my readers a happy and prosperous New Year. [Better than even odds.]

Christmas Song

2009-12-20T23:32:00.002-05:00

Though this is over 100 years old, I just came

across it recently. May all my readers have a

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

-- Topaz

Why do bells for Christmas Ring?

Why do little children sing?

Once a lovely, shining star,

Seen by shepherds from afar,

Gently moved until its light

Made a manger-cradle bright.

There a darling baby lay

Pillowed soft upon the hay.

And his mother sang and smiled,

“This is Christ, the holy child.”

So the bells for Christmas ring,

So the little children sing.

-- Lydia A C Ward c1907

The Dog Ate My Homework and Other Vibrant Thoughts

2009-11-12T15:23:00.001-05:00

- I’ve been absent lately for good reason. The dog ate my homework---not really, but I’ve always wanted to say that. Actually the main database program I use for my blogs, background, notes, and work-in-progress failed. It deleted all my work for 2009 and part of 2008. I don’t know what happened. Since my backups are done daily, the bad database was copied. There was no sign of the later files anywhere on my disk. I called the software provider and was told that the program couldn’t do that. It must be my fault. I disagree. The only problem I had was with that particular program. Nothing else was damaged. So what am I to think? Get a different program that’s what. In any case, all my WIP is gone, as are my notes. So, I have to start from scratch.

- Our National debt keeps growing. We suffered an October deficit of $176 billion---hey! That’s in just one month! With the increase in socialist programs, we’re going to be saddling more and more generations with the cost of our mistakes. The House bill for Obamacare is set for a $1.3 trillion in the future [ten years I think]. But in addition to that, we’ll be paying more in taxes; more in insurance premiums; more for pacemakers, wheelchairs and other medical devices [partially via a tax]; more for goods and services---the list goes on. And does anyone think the bill for all this will be what’s stated? Wanna buy a bridge in NYC? How much are we prepared to pay to socialize everything? We’re being taxed unconscionably every day, and at some point the whole shebang will collapse. Is that all the Hope recently voted for?

It reminds me of the old joke based on the “No taxation without representation” call during the revolution. “If you think taxation without representation was bad, just look at it with representation.”

- Nancy Pelosi is looking positively skeletal lately. At certain angles, she shows deeply sunken eyes and more than usual signs of aging and wear and tear. I guess her botox is wearing off. At what point will her horns be showing?

- Obama finally visited Fort Hood to show empathy and console survivors and the families of the dead. He went because he had to in order to show empathy and shore up his failing Presidency. He also went for the photo ops. But don’t for one second believe he went because he wanted to. He’s a confirmed socialist, and his actions and policies show him to be anti-military in all respects---except maybe to protect his butt and those of his family.

- Obama has now rejected all four alternatives for additional troops to be sent to Afghanistan. He wants changes to those alternatives based on the comments of our ambassador to Afghanistan, his own flawed beliefs, and the obvious continued corruption in the Karzai administration. So, this is what it means: continued troop deaths in Afghanistan; probable re-introduction of the Taliban; downfall of Karzai in favor of the Taliban; continued training of terrorists; and more terror activity in the US and against American interests abroad. Our forces would be leaving the Country with tails between legs and another Obama scar on our reputation home and abroad. So, we can expect many more American deaths as Obama---the anti-military socialist with a radical bent---moves to defang the entire American Worldwide experience.

- So now ACORN is suing the government to get its funding back. I always thought you couldn’t sue the government. It seems to me if the Congress can provide funds to a specific entity, it can also cut them off from that same entity. This is what happened. Some in Congress are calling for a detailed investigation into ACORN activities. Personally, I think ACORN should be prosecuted, fined and shuttered under the RICO statutes.

Holy Terror, Batman!

2009-09-21T12:47:00.001-04:00

Back in the 1980s, we had a strong President in Ronald Reagan who re-built the Country's defenses after the debacle of Jimmy Carter. It cost money, but it was necessary. His depiction of the USSR as an evil empire was right on the money. Between his rhetoric and his efforts at defense, the USSR went bankrupt and ultimately dissolved during the George H W Bush administration. As a Country, we were the sole superpower, and we received respect and relative safety from the rest of the World's crazies.

Another Democrat Presidency in the Bill Clinton duo reduced our strength and respect around the World. The situation emboldened our enemies [we have and always will have enemies] to such an extent that an attack was successfully launched against us in the USA itself. That led to a War on Terror, for that is what it was: we were faced with a declaration of War by an insidious group of terroristic radicals under the guise of religion.

And what a religion! It's one which holds that all non-adherents are infidels, and they must be destroyed. It's a 'religion'---no, I believe it's just a cult. Strong, fanatical, and widespread, yes. But just a cult---not of peace, but of control, misogyny, lack of personal freedom and rights, and no desire for compromise. We can do nothing to appease the radical Islamists. We're the Great Satan, and our existence is not to be tolerated.

If these terror bearers can't do it from without, they'll try to do it from within. They demand more accommodations for their practices and training, and stupidly we give it to them. Christianity is anathema to the ACLU and public schools, but Islam isn't. Doesn't that begin to scare your neurons?

Leading up to this War on Terror, and after an 8 year war between a dictator and a theocracy in the Middle East, we freed Kuwait of an invasion by Saddam Hussein and his minions, beating the latter back to Bagdad.

But, Iraq broke its treaties, harbored terrorists and amassed weapons of mass destruction---yes, it had the latter. But they were transferred to Syria and beyond before we could inspect the area. Iraq of the time harbored and trained and cooperated with terrorists, as did Afghanistan. So, we set out to bring the War to the combined participants. We destroyed the administration of dictator and murderer Saddam Hussein and allowed Democracy to gain a hold. But, we need stability in the area, so we remain a presence.

In Afghanistan, we are fighting a terror network which was destroying the Afghan culture, training terrorists, and exporting terror throughout the World. This network was hiding the mastermind of the terror network which had attacked our New York City. We remain in battle against this element. But it isn't easy because of the culture and terrain and Liberal politics.

In the meantime, there have been no major terror attacks in the United States because of our policy of strength and retaliation. We have been bringing the battles to the enemies' strongholds.

But in recent years, we've allowed the Liberal faction of our Country to hold sway, thus our Country's strength and prestige has dwindled. We have a closet Islamicist as President. We've changed terminology. The War on Terror is now 'Overseas Contingency Operation.'

In fact, from an administration official we recent heard something akin to gobbledygook: ...”Craig Duehring, assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower, said in congressional testimony: 'Key battlefield monetary incentives [have] allowed the Air Force to meet the demands of overseas contingency operations even as requirements continue to grow.'”

We have other changes. 'Jihadist' or 'mujahideen' have been replaced by 'violent extremist.' Also banned was the term 'Islamo-fascist' on the basis that it's offensive to the enemy.

Since our current President took office:
He has announced the closing of Guantanamo, thus releasing many terrorists to other countries, including island paradises.
Refused to prosecute the mastermind behind the bombing of the USS Cole, an act resulting in the loss of American lives.
Closed all overseas interrogation centers of the CIA.
Appointed a questionable Attorney General with Communist tendencies
His first television interview was with Al Arabia
His first telephone contacts with a foreign leader were with Fatah Party leader and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbass.
With no strings attached, the President has allocated $20 million in 'post-conflict humanitarian aid' to Palestine refugees and conflict victims in Gaza. This brings the total to $60 million in US commitments to Gaza.
Has allowed his appointees to inject racism into the National discourse in areas not having racist overtones or undertones.
Has cosied up to Communist dictator Chavez in Venezuela.
Has opposed the legal and constitutional ousting of a dictator-to-be in Honduras.
Has tepidly criticized the Scots for releasing the only convicted terrorist in the Lockerbie bombing. Instead of life, this guy was incarcerated for only 8 years, an insult to millions of people. And of course, when he returned to Libya he received a hero's welcome.

We have been permitting this Islamic cult to practice in the United States, allowing numerous Mosques throughout the Country. Nevermind that brainwashing and terrorist training taking place in such environments. We're told we have to be tolerant and hospitable. I wonder what the reaction would have been to allowing Nazis to build training centers and brainwashing facilities throughout the United States during WWII? Merge with the invaders and be the lesser for it?

We have---and ACLU is noticeably absent from the outrage---a San Diego School which has set aside about 15 minutes of the class day for Muslim students to pray---but God forbid that a Christian wants to do the same thing. This school's cafeteria has banned pork and other foods not in the Islamic diet. Study of Arabic has been added with Taliban appropriate segregation of boys and girls.
And remember, the Pledge of Allegiance is still banned as brainwashing.

The current President has permitted deficits of over a $trillion for the years into the future; spent us into bankruptcy that our descendents will be stuck with; has a healthcare proposal that will ruin the finest health care system in the World. Some of the funding for this proposal will come from cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, thus on the backs of the poor and elderly.

Illegal aliens won't be covered, says our President, so he proposes to make all illegal aliens legal so they can participate. Merge with the invaders again?

And of course, the President and Congress won't be relegated to this bourgeoisie type of health care. They'll get the finest. And they'll use their influence to demand it---now! Does anyone dispute the idea that the races for Congressional seats will be strongly influenced by the desire to get away from Obamacare?

Meanwhile, the Social Security system is headed toward bankruptcy and Congress and the President continue to ignore it. Remember, the Social Security trust is a file cabinet of IOUs from Congress. Perhaps Sandy Berger should be examining the files for the President and Congress so a reduction of IOUs can be claimed?

Indeed, Holy Terror, Batman! Holy Medical Terror, Batman! Holy Bankruptcy, Batman!

Easy Return, No Questions Asked

2009-09-16T14:48:00.003-04:00

Me: According to Rasmussen Reports, General Motors is now promising a 60-day money-back guarantee to all purchasers of its cars and trucks. The government pretty much owns GM now, and the President felt it necessary to roll a head or two in his effort to not intervene in the private sector. But I wish that we had had a similar guarantee, say a year, for the Presidential administration. In that case, we could return the Obama crew to whence they came.
***
In his effort to keep religion out of our lives and that of the federal government, President Obama has praised Islam as it enters the fasting month of Ramadan. Unfortunately, he's only praising the adversary. Obama seems to be on the right course for welcoming the enemy to our dinner table and giving him our weapons, our daughters and our freedoms. At some point, I expect him to start spouting Sharia law.

An Obama supporter with her pixie dust.

Due to the left, it's mandatory to keep all religion out of the White House---except of course, Islam. This is the loony all you leftists stuck us with. Congratulations to you for sending this person to Washington to spin lies while the Country and culture face destruction.
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Obama said Ramadan's rituals are a reminder of the principles Muslims and Christians have in common, including advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. Is he for real? Islam is still in the 7th Century. And the stated and often spouted tenet of Islam is death to the infidel---not to mention the subservience of women. And the infidel is defined as any non-muslim. The western world has already faced the Muslim spread Islam by-the-sword hundreds of years ago. Charles Martel stopped them in France.

So how can we stop them now with such a wimpy President who thinks he can hold hands with the radical Muslims and secure peace? And his actions are leading to other's perception of our Country as weak.
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Newsmax: "A weakened United States could start retreating from the world stage without help from its allies abroad, an international strategic affairs think tank said Tuesday."

Me: Is anyone surprised by this? We're pussyfooting around a culture that wants us dead; peace isn't an option with them. They're like the Germans in believing they're at the top of the evolutionary chart.

David Patten for Newsmax: On...[July 17]... Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation's estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment...that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama."

Father Jonathan for Fox: "But let's be clear: there is no such thing as a fundamental human right to socialized medicine.

"Here's what to watch out for: a mucking up of ethical waters by the inference that the fundamental human right to basic health care is equivalent to a universal "right" to socialized medicine. In the coming days the president and his advisers will speak passionately, and often, about the estimated 46 million Americans without health care insurance. And they will do so in moralistic terms, haranguing Americans to feel outrage at the thought of so many poor, fellow citizens deprived of their rights.

"Emergency rooms in both public and private hospitals will attend to anyone in urgent need. Most of the 46 million people who do not have health insurance are middle class Americans who have opted out of purchasing it because of other financial priorities."

Me: Do the Democrats plan on closing down such places as St Jude's Children's Hospital and the Mayo Clinic and similar places because they aren't government run? Will the Shriners have to find a new charitable activity? How many children will die?

ABC News: "Devinsky [reporter] asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn't seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he's proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get...The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it's my family member, if it's my wife, if it's my children, if it's my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care."

Me: Where will he fly them for treatment once he destroys the quality of American Medicine? Kenya? Canada? Great Britain?

Me again: Is any of this a surprise to sane Americans? Warnings about these socialist plans for health care as to be expected from an Obama administration were given constantly during the Presidential campaign. Yet, the amateur Obama was elected. How? Some Democrats always vote for the Democrat no matter who he is or what he might do. Others believed the palpable nonsense of Hope and Change his teleprompters spouted. [Well, they got it alright. Change downward is still a change.] Others didn't like McCain. And sadly, others voted for him simply because he was black. Yes, they are racists. It's a fact and should be considered. So, now we all suffer from a self-bloated and grossly interventionist government. This tragedy can be traced to the interfering Democrats in Congress, especially from 2006 to the present. Notably among the disaster meisters are Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, John Murtha, Ted Kennedy RIP, Robert Byrd, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid---and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Are we headed for another revolution? Possibly. Who knows? The American people are being pushed until their backs hit a wall. We have to keep fighting the current Congress and President. In 2010 we should remove all 435 House members and a third of the Senate. In 2012, we should put a Conservative in the White House to start cleaning up the mess and replace another third of the Senate. By 2014, we can vote out the remainder of the Senate and hopefully be on our way to some semblance of order.

2009-09-04T21:18:00.001-04:00

Folks, I think this is an important little cartoon. Please watch, but you don't have to join anything to do so.

Moses Shows Up With More Tablets?

2009-08-29T00:32:00.002-04:00

Recently in my email I received the below Ten Commandments from the Patriot Update. Here they are below with my commentary on the sources and other things.

Patriot Update Exclusive:
The Ten Commandments According to Obama
© 2009 The Patriot Update

“After observing Obama on the campaign trail and during his first six months in office, we have concluded that our President lives and governs according to his own set of "Ten Commandments." They're certainly NOT the Ten Commandments you learned in Sunday school. In fact, many are the direct opposite! To prove that our conclusions are correct, you will find a link to source documentation for each commandment on the Patriot Update web site.

I Thou shalt have no God in America, except for me. For we are no longer a Christian nation and, after all, I am the chosen One. (And like God, I do not have a birth certificate.) [“Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tells CBN news that 'America is no longer just a Christian nation' and laid out ways both religious conservatives and liberals can begin to find common ground.' Senator Obama made that statement by email in response to questions by CBN News' Senior National Correspondent David Brody. He told Brody that liberals need to understand that Government can't fix certain problems. Instead they need to recognize the moral component.” Topaz: This is a case of avoiding a direct answer. This country began as a Judeo-Christian society with due respect for minority beliefs. It was built upon the ideas of freedom from government interference and the Bill of Rights. The country should still be guided by Judeo-Christian principles, and not by hatred, wealth distribution, misogyny, socialism, and power-greed. Our basic freedoms are granted by God {not Obama} and only guaranteed by the government. And such a guarantee applies to every citizen. Though sometimes called Obamessiah and given religious-like veneration from the Liberals and Media, we all know that no politician---especially Obama---has anything like the true aura. From a recent joke: God and Obama are similar in having no birth certificate; the difference between them is that God doesn't think he's Obama.]

II Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, unless it is my face carved on Mt. Rushmore. [Topaz: With all due respect Patriot Depot, I read its source about Obama's visit to Mt Rushmore, I didn't see anything there to show hubris on his part. When a reporter asked a question about his being on Mt Rushmore: "I don't think my ears would fit," Obama said, laughing. "There's only so much rock up there." No, Obama would more prefer his face on the new, inflation-ated five dollar bill and on numerous memorials around the country.]

III Thou shalt not utter my middle name in vain (or in public). Only I can say Barack Hussein Obama. [Topaz: This ban seems to have been started by John McCain [he has a PC streak at times]; the source herein given [Time CNN from February 2008] has no quotes or analysis of Obama saying anything about his middle name---though his supporters and perhaps his campaign staff seem to have followed up on it. Maybe he did direct it to be done, but there's no smoking gun that I can see. Though for sure, Obama has pointedly kept his Muslim middle name in the background.]

IV Remember tax day, April 15th, to keep it holy. [Topaz: This source is a speech by Obama on April 15, 2009. Although he never comes out and says the day is holy, he spends most of his time reading from the teleprompters about all the great things he's doing for American workers: he's providing tax cuts for 95% of them---though a far less percentage of them actually pay taxes; he claims he's providing tax cuts for small businesses, when in fact small businesses are closing all over the place because of his taxes and other poison pills for the economy. If he gets his health care plan established: he'll destroy the American health care system; taxes will go up substantially as health care becomes less and less available---except for illegal aliens; taxes and government mandates [health insurance etc.] will destroy many more small business or reduce the everyday workforce. Remember, most of the jobs in America are created by small business. And speaking of holy: the Obamas have taken a lot of time to pick a church to attend in Washington. I think the difficulty was that Obama was looking for another pastor Wright and couldn't find him.]
V Honour thy father and thy mother until they are too old and sick to care for. They will cost our public-funded health-care system too much money. [The source is an article in Red State by Todd Huston on June 25: “Obama said during the ABC Special on Wednesday night that a way to save healthcare costs is to abandon the sort of care that “evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve” the patient's health. He went on to say that he had personal familiarity with such a situation when his grandmother broke her hip after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Obama offered a question on the efficacy of further care for his grandmother saying, 'and the question was, does she get hip replacement surgery, even though she was fragile enough they were not sure how long she would last?' But who is it that will present the “evidence” that will “show” that further care is futile? Are we to believe that Obama expects individual doctors will make that decision in his bold new government controlled healthcare future? If he is trying to make that claim it is a flat out untruth and he knows it.” Topaz: It should be a great concern to we Americans that Obama thinks so little of our older folks. I think that's a product of his socialism, messiah complex, and immaturity, and probably imbecility. So this health care mogul is some one to fear. We can't afford his destructive health-care system.]
VI Thou shalt not kill, unless you have an unwanted, unborn baby. For it would be an abomination to punish your daughter with a baby. [per the Catholic News Agency in April 2008: “While addressing a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last weekend, Sen. Obama said, 'When it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include -- which should include abstinence education and teaching the children -- teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual," he said. "But it should also include -- it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old,' he added. 'I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby,' Obama said.” Topaz: Firstly, this is an example of Obama speaking without a teleprompter. Secondly, it's clear that he considers a baby---from the miracle of birth---to be a punishment. Would that his family thought the same thing about him back in Kenya. They could have sold him to the local witch doctor.]

VII Thou shalt not commit adultery if you are conservative or a Republican. Liberals and Democrats are hereby forgiven for all of their infidelity and immorality, but the careers of conservatives will be forever destroyed. [Topaz: The source is an article by Chad Groening on the Patriot Update, but much of the same information is available in other media outlets. Gov Stanford of South Carolina is getting skewered for his activities with the unfairer sex. The only reason he hasn't been more in the news is the death of Michael Jackson. Inordinate and disgusting coverages of Jackson have been helpful to Stanford. However in the past, any indiscretion by a Conservative or Republican has led to a long term repetition and expansion from the media. But those of Democrats and Liberals have been glossed over. At this modern date, it's common knowledge about extra-marital sex romps of Ted {the Swimmer} Kennedy [now RIP], Chris Dodd, and other Democrats. One was caught romping in a Washington fountain with his mistress. Barney Frank's companion ran a male prostitution ring in Frank's basement. Robert Byrd is a former KKK big shot; then there are the Democrat apologists for Bill Clinton. Teddy the Swimmer left a woman to drown at Chappaquiddick Bay while he swam home to set up an alibi. The list goes on. Conservatives and Republicans get fried in the press; Democrats and Liberals get minor coverage. {I'm sorry Ted Kennedy is dead, but that does nothing to alleviate his culpability for murderous and frightening actions during his term as Senator.}]

VIII Thou shalt not steal, until you've been elected to public office. Only then is it acceptable to take money from hard-working, successful citizens and give it to those who do not work, illegal immigrants, or those who do not have the motivation to better their own lives. [Topaz: The source here is an article from American Vision by Gary DeMar. Although written during the campaign, it discusses the ways Obamanomics planned to steal from the rich and corporations {thus ultimately you and me} to pay for his socialist dreams. Congress in general and Democrat Congresses in particular, have been doing this for decades. {The American Dream is near extinction thanks to Liberals and Democrats.} No matter what they claim, they do in effect 'steal' from the average taxpayer to pay for their socialist dreams. We have little or no input into such grandiose plans. Witness, for one example the travesty of the War on Poverty: Trillions spent, and we're pretty much right where we were when it started---if not in worse shape from some points of view. And of course, who can forget all the PAC money, campaign 'contributions', fund raisers, under-the-table payments, influence peddling, pork projects, and other intrigue from the boys and girls in the House. And don't forget that many of the 45 million uninsured for health purposes are illegal aliens, and they're the ones to receive free health care from the wallets of you and me.]

IX Thou shalt not discriminate against thy neighbor unless they are conservative, Caucasian, or Christian. [Topaz: The source is an article in American Conservative Daily by John Lilipop. While tongue-in-cheek, it presents numerous examples of the left wing view, and it refers to recent pronouncement from Janet Napolitano and Homeland Security about extremism. It seems that the various tea parties {Peopled mostly by Christians, Jews, and Protestants of all denominations---you know: average Americans against the socialistic government} against the unconscionable taxes and socialist-ing by the Obama administration are considered radical and extremist. Black race riots are not. Abortion is not. But anything two or more Conservatives do together is probably extremist. Remember the call from Hillary about the 'vast right wing conspiracy.' Don't disagree with a Liberal---especially Obama; it would make you an extremist and radical to be beaten down.]

X Thou shalt not covet because it is simply unnecessary. I will place such a heavy tax burden on those that have achieved the American Dream that, by the end of my term as President, nobody will have any wealth or material goods left for you to covet. [Topaz: From Lee Cary of the American Thinker back in April of 2008, we see in detail some of the calculations based on Obama speeches and claims. According to his claims, corporate CEOs earn anywhere from $400-$500 million per year! That's right. That's what he claims. You only have to do the math for his claims. So naturally, Obama wants to confiscate most of that to pay for his socialist plans and wish to 'redistribute the wealth'---though how remains to be seen. {Time for another Congressional pay raise.} I used to own a small business. At its acme, I had two full time and two part time employees. When the end of the year arrived, and I checked my books, the two full time employees were making more than me. With health care, unemployment insurance, large rent, and state and local taxes, I couldn't make it a go on a longtime basis. My clients wouldn't pay higher fees. If I hadn't sold the business, I'd have been driven into bankruptcy. And that is what will soon be happening to millions of small business under the Obama blanket. But the welfare recipients will be fine.]
To which I might add XI: Thou shalt run for high office and hide thy foreign birth certificate. [Topaz: The question of Obama's birth certificate is an important one, and one which demands an answer. Unfortunately, Obama won't give us one. Doesn't it seem strange that for the highest political office in the land we don't insist that candidates meet the minimum requirements as set forth in the Constitution? The refusal of Obama to meet such a reasonable demand casts a shadow over his Presidency and our oversight of the Presidential race. Carl Andrews in the American Conservative Daily notes: “On January 21st, 2009, his very first day in office, Barack Obama implemented and signed into law Executive Order 13489. For those of you who can't take the time to read it. here is the section that applies: “Sec.2-Notice of Intent to Disclose Presidential Records: When the Archivist provides notice to the incumbent and former Presidents of his intent to disclose Presidential records pursuant to section 1270.46 of the NARA regulations, the Archivist, using any guidelines provided by the incumbent and former Presidents, shall identify any specific materials, the disclosure of which he believes may raise a substantial question of executive privilege.” Now for all of you who commented on our previous articles that we were no more that right-wing nut jobs, that this thing about Obama's birth certificate was a non-issue, and those of you who tried to shift the focus of the stories, doesn't this strike you as just a little odd? That the first order of business Obama took care of on day one of his Presidency was to sign off on an Executive Order that states that only the records he chooses to be made public will be released?” Topaz again: It's quite easy in Hawaii to get a certificate of live birth {if you're there to apply for it you must be alive!}---but a real birth certificate? Even an Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine, and Coast guard wannabe has to provide his birth certificate to be accepted. So do the children wanting to enter first grade. But for President Messiah? Heavens no.]

Tell a Prompter and Tell a Doctor

2009-08-20T17:58:00.002-04:00

Some more random thoughts from me and various news sources---especially in case you missed them the first time around. The socialist takeover of our Country seems destined to continue unabated unless we all wake up and do something.

I think if Obama were President during WWII, he'd have declared victory at the first sinking of a Japanese ship, and turned to other pursuits. Of course, he'd have lost the war and opened up our country to disaster, but why care? His march to socialism would have been more important to his administration [in its dying days.]

Per WTOP Radio: "An employee of the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer and a private contractor were charged with corruption Thursday after an FBI raid at the former office of one of President Obama's appointees.”

'Annette Nazareth, a former senior staffer and commissioner with the Securities and Exchange Commission, made "a personal decision" to withdraw from the process, according to a person familiar with her decision. …The decision followed more than a month of intense scrutiny of her taxes and multiple interviews. No tax problems or other issues arose during Nazareth's vetting, said the person, who requested anonymity because Geithner's choice of Nazareth was never announced officially.'

"Charles W Freeman Jr withdrew his Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) appointment acceptance after a barrage of criticism from Jewish groups and liberal senators."

'The U.S. is no longer waging a 'global war on terror,' according to an official memo. But it's not that the terror threat has ended. In a memo e-mailed to Pentagon staff members, the Defense Department's office of security review stated that 'this administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' [GWOT]. Please use 'Overseas Contingency Operation.''

Per Washington Times: "The Obama administration is taking steps quietly to shut down the program that qualifies commercial airline pilots to carry firearms in jetliner cockpits in order to ward off another 9/11-type attack. *The administration recently diverted $2 million from a program to train and certify pilots to carry firearms safely while on duty. Instead, it is using the money to hire additional field inspectors to help discipline pilots who step out of line, according to a report in Tuesday's Washington Times.

Per Dick Morris: "Since he has taken office, the president has: 1 Announced closure of Guantanamo; 2 Declined to prosecute the mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing; 3 Closed all overseas CIA interrogation centers; 4 Appointed an Attorney General and Justice Department officials on record as opposed to the use of "enhanced" interrogation techniques in terror investigations; 5 Granted Al Arabia television his first news organization interview and called Fatah Party leader and PA President Mahmoud Abbass in his first phone contact with any foreign leader; 6 *Now, with no strings attached, the president has allocated $20.3 million in "post-conflict humanitarian aid" to "Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza. The additional funds bring to $60 million U.S. aid commitments in Gaza." [There's a lot more, but there isn't room on the Internet to write it all.]

Per Jonathan Martin and David S. Cloud: Just hours after North Korea launched a long-range rocket, President Barack Obama called for "a world without nuclear weapons" and said the United States has a “moral responsibility ” to lead the way, as the only nation ever to use them." [I guess in our cultural, the police should be shedding their weapons and try to talk kindly to criminals.]

Per Fox News: "Two House Judiciary subcommittees convened Thursday to examine allegations of unconstitutional immigration enforcement tactics -- and took target practice at Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, whose controversial methods have been called racist by activists and Democratic lawmakers. *But Arpaio didn't defend himself on Capitol Hill. He did not testify to the committee and he did not attend the joint hearing. That's because the Maricopa County, Ariz., law enforcement chief wasn't invited, said House Judiciary Committee sources." [By the way, Sheriff Arpaio is simply enforcing existing laws---but when did that matter to members of Congress.]

Per William Welch: "Studies by two conservative think tanks estimate immigrants in the United States illegally could take 300,000 construction jobs---or 15% of the 2 million jobs that new taxpayer-financed projects are predicted to create." [Most of the others will go to state and federal agencies.]

Per Carol Lee: "President Barack Obama doesn't go anywhere without his Teleprompter. *The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president's prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks. … Obama's reliance on the Teleprompter is unusual – not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small." [I might add that in his news conferences, he has replaced the Teleprompters with a big video screen behind the reporters so the system isn't so obvious.]

Per NewsMax: "The Environmental Protection Agency put hundreds of mountaintop coal-mining permits on hold Tuesday, saying it wants to evaluate the projects' impact on streams and wetlands." [Never mind the effect on jobs or energy.]

Per NewsMax: "The White House [ha]s alloc[ated] tickets for the...Easter Egg Roll to gay and lesbian families as part of the Obama administration's outreach to diverse communities. *Families say the gesture shows that the new Democratic administration values them as equal to other families. And for many, being included in the annual tradition --- dating to 1878 --- renews hope that they will have more support in their quest for equal rights in matters such as marriage and adoption than under the previous administration." [All Americans already have equal rights. What the gay activists want are 'special' rights to justify their perverted 'lifestyles.']

Per Janet M. LaRue: "During his 2004 run for the Senate, Obama said 'I think that the Second Amendment means something. I think that if the government were to confiscate everybody's guns unilaterally that I think that would be subject to constitutional challenge.'”

Per Lee Ross: "'At some point, [the Defense of Marriage Act] is going to have to go to the United States Supreme Court,' the congressman, a Democrat, said. 'I wouldn't want it to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has got too many votes on this current court.' [So would he be happy now that we have a sexist and racist on the court?]

Per Judson Berger: "Global War on Terror is out -- 'overseas contingency operation' is in. *Terrorist attack is out -- 'man-caused disaster' is in."

Quality of Cabinet Choices:

1 Secy of State Clinton tells the World that a Palestine state is inevitable and sides with the Palestinians against Israel
2 Obama picks 6 former Congress members for cabinet; so much for change
3 Obama picks numerous Clintonista's such as Hillary, Leon Panetta for cabinet and CIA.
4 Commerce - Bill Richardson withdrew because of federal investigation; Judd Gregg withdrew due to irreconcilable differences
5 HHS - Tom Daschle - didn't pay $100,000 in taxes
6 Health Czar - Nancy-Ann Parle from Clinton administration
7 Treasury - Tim Geithner - didn't pay about $34,000 in taxes but Democrats gave him a pass
8 Secretary of State - Hillary Clinton - well known baggage and home of nonsense.
9 CIA - Leon Panetta - Clinton administration - no experience to run anything, let alone the CIA
10 US Trade Rep - Ron Kirk - c$10.000 in back taxes
11 Chief Fed Government Performance - Nancy Killefer - undetermined unemployment taxes re household employee
12 Labor - Hilda Soli - husband owes c$6,000 back taxes

Per Pam Meister, Family Security Matters: "...One would think Obama couldn't top his cheesy gift of American DVD classics that [British Prime Minister] Brown wasn't interested in watching, let alone being able to play on his Euro-made DVD player, but never underestimate The Power of The One™. Upon meeting Queen Elizabeth II, the Obamas presented Her Majesty with an iPod, loaded with video of the Queen's trip to America in 2007. No, it wasn't loaded with photos of Obama relaxing in the Oval Office with his jacket off. It gets better: In addition to the Queen's visit video, it was loaded with photos of Obama's inauguration PLUS audio of the inauguration and audio from his 2004 Democrat Convention speech when he was a mere senator."

'The Obama administration's decision to raise fuel economy standards in cars to an average 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 is casting a new light on auto safety. As USA TODAY points out in its story today, smaller cars generally fare worse in crash tests -- especially against larger vehicles.' [The cash-for-clunkers policy [heavily flawed as it is for car dealers] is simply creating a better market for foreign compact cars.]

Per Burt Prelutsky, Townhall: "...Take the stimulus package, or, in the words of Joe Biden, “the so-called stimulus package.” Obama goes on TV and tells us that it's the only thing that will keep us from winding up in Hoovervilles, selling apples on the street and becoming a nation of hobos. Furthermore, this messenger of hope tells us, with a straight face, no less, that there isn't a single earmark to be found in it. That's like pointing at an enormous hog and saying there isn't a single link sausage or slice of bacon in it. There's no need for earmarks when the whole damn thing is nothing but pork! Obama didn't even have to stay up late to put the package together. That was done by Pelosi and Reid, Washington's answer to Hormel and Oscar Meyer. Obama was simply the snake oil salesman who was sent out on the road to sell it to the rubes."

Per Dennis Prager on Townhall: "...It [Obama Stimulus Package 1] is, as Robert Rector---identified by the Times of London as one of the architects of Clinton's 1996 reform bill--- [said] a welfare spendathon that would amount to the largest one-year increase in government handouts in American history. *It [Obama Stimulus Package 1] is the reason the Obama-supporting Newsweek headlined on its cover page 'We are all socialists now.' *It [Obama Stimulus Package 1] is why, in the words of The Times of London, Republicans are not alone in fearing that Obama's hastily concocted package is the first step towards the creation of a quasi-socialist welfare state." We can only guess about and fear a Stimulus 2.

The Obama administration---with the aid of Al Gore, most Liberal tree huggers and band wagon users, and Liberal scientists on a mission---is bent on destroying more than just our culture. The entire Global Warming hysteria is Liberal made. They find it easy to take natural occurrences and blame everything on man and culture so they can take control and screw thing up. Warming and cooling is natural and to be expected. If the Liberals were in charge millions of years ago, the dinosaurs would have been taxed nearly out of existence for their methane production; and then the comet or asteroid would have destroyed the Liberals and made it all moot? Besides, recent figures indicate a steady global cooling.

We have the energy sources to be self sufficient, but the Obama and the Democrats won't let us use them. They won't let us build safe nuclear plants and clean coal and oil plants, and they won't let us search for and recover our own oil. I'll bet when the Muslims take over that'll change. They'll drill everywhere and anywhere to find oil to sell to the World.

To steal a phrase from a popular song, “And the beat goes on.” It does go on and on and on. The Obama administration is giving us change alright. It's systematically destroying our country, our finances, our prestige, our culture, and our freedoms. Among other things, Obama wants to take the best medical system in the world and bring it down to European standards.

Obama's government takeover of private businesses is blatant socialism meant to destroy the free marketing system. He's taxing everything that moves, running our debt up by the trillions, and claims he's 'saving' the Country from the Bush Administration. Hogwash! If the Democrats hadn't been leading the charge in Congressional over-spending, handouts, and socialist leanings for the past 50 or 60 years, we might not be in this mess.

And I resent Obama's claim of 47 million uninsured for health purposes. In that made-up figure are about 12 million illegal aliens; about 18 million who can afford it but don't want it; about 9 million who are between jobs and only temporarily uninsured; about 3 million low income persons who simply haven't been using current government assistance; about 8 million young adults who still have their childhood 'I'm indestructible' attitude towards health insurance; and finally about 8 million children who are covered by their parent's insurance policies but don't have their own. [??]

Those figures add up to more than 47 million because of double counts. Now, do you really want to enact Obama's Healthcare Deform and ruin the World's best health care system just to cover illegal aliens?

What Does Obamacare for America?

2009-07-29T19:13:00.003-04:00

Topaz:
As more and more details of Obamacare come to light, the US Government's---via the Obama Administration---dangerous, socialist takeover of our economy and culture becomes even more frightening. Those of us over 65 are in especial danger, for the elderly are going to find reduced care---simply because it's too expensive. And don't try to pay for anything by yourself. That simple freedom is curtailed.

Yes folks, '1984' is on the horizon. 'Logan's Run' is on the horizon. Is 'Soylent Green' also on the horizon?

Father John of Fox News:
“But let's be clear: there is no such thing as a fundamental human right to socialized medicine.”

Ryan J Donmoyer and Kristin Jensen Bloomberg:
“The 1,018-page House Democratic plan builds on a June 19 draft and for the first time includes details on how to pay for the measure. In addition to the levy on millionaire households, the House would place surtaxes of 1.5 percent on couples with incomes of $500,000 to $1 million and 1 percent on those with incomes of more than $350,000.

“The surtax on wealthier Americans would be imposed based on adjusted gross income, meaning it would also apply to capital gains and dividends, which are currently taxed at a 15 percent rate. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said lawmakers targeted high earners because it “causes the least amount of pain on the least amount of people.”

Thomas Donohue of the US Chamber of Commerce:
“The intention of this plan is to tax high-income households, but the real victims would be America's small business owners…Since when does our great free-market country punish success?”

Dr Orrin Devinsky of ABC “…asked the President pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn't seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he's proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get…The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if 'it's my family member, if it's my wife, if it's my children, if it's my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.'..”

David A Patten of Newsmax
“On Friday [7/17/09], Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation's estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama…

“The Democratic plan will embrace Obama's vision of bringing free government medical care to more than 45 million uninsured people in America--–a significant portion [about 12 million] of whom are illegal aliens. [Others being about 22 million young and not wanting insurance; about 8 million temporarily between jobs; and about 3 million poorer people not taking the health care that already exists in current programs.]

“Democrats had insisted throughout the health-care reform debate that illegals would be ineligible for the so-called public option plan that is to be subsidized by taxpayers.

Senator Max Baucus D-Montana, Chairman Senate Finance Committee:
"We're not going to cover undocumented aliens, undocumented workers," 'the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told reporters in May.'
"That's too politically explosive."

“A recent Rasmussen Reports poll found that an overwhelming 80 percent of Americans oppose covering illegals in any public health care bill.”

“Anti-immigration [this should be anti-illegal immigration] activists say the availability of low-cost benefits, including health insurance and in-state tuition, will only lure more immigrants to come to the United States.”

Dick Morris Political Analyst:
“…warns that giving illegal free health care will lead to a flood of new illegals who can take advantage of such a benefit not offered in their home countries…”

Topaz:
Is any of this a surprise to sane Americans? Warnings about these socialist plans to be found in an Obama administration were given constantly during the Presidential campaign. Yet, the amateur Obama was elected. How? Some Democrats always vote for the Democrat no matter who he is or what he might do. Others believed the palpable nonsense of Hope and Change his Teleprompters spouted. [Well, they got it alright.] Others didn't like McCain. And sadly, others voted for him simply because he was black. Yes, they are racists. It's a fact and should be considered. So, now we all suffer from a self-bloated and grossly interventionist government.

This tragedy can be traced to the interventionistic Democrats in Congress, especially from 2006 to the present. Notably among the disaster-meisters are Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, John Murtha, Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid---and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Are we headed for a revolution? Possibly. Who knows?

We have to keep fighting the current Congress and President. In 2010 we should remove all 435 House members and a third of the Senate. In 2012, we should put a Conservative in the White House to start cleaning up the mess and replace another third of the Senate. By 2014, we can vote out the remainder of the Senate and hopefully be on our way to some semblance of order.

Townhall email:
“A National Abortion Bill?

That is what the legislation should be called, because the bill pending in Congress includes the unlimited right of a woman to end the life of her baby, with the government footing the bill. And groups like Planned Parenthood will be the beneficiaries of your tax dollars.”

Fred Thompson radio show:

"ON PAGE 425 OF OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE BILL [sic], the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier. Yes...They are going to push SUICIDE to cut medicare spending!"

Topaz:
So this is change? Government funded abortions? Suicide counseling for the elderly? Unconscionable taxes? We'd have done better voting for none of the above.

Our Muslim trained and named President who sat for twenty years listening to the fiery radical pastor Wright condemn America [Obama apologized for America in foreign countries] and had ties to communist, socialist, and radical people and groups [Bill Ayres, Acorn et al] is now showing America his true stripes. You unthinking Liberals out there voted this guy in. I hope you're proud for what you've given all of us with your knee-jerk reactions.

Random Thoughts July 2009

2009-07-17T14:33:00.003-04:00

Our economy is in the abyss for many reasons, not the least being [the predominantly Democrat] overspending for the past 50 years. Of course a major reason is the Democrats' [notably Rep Barney Frank and Sen Chris Dodd] forcing the banks and financial institutions to create dangerous loans. But who will recognize the truth when they can fall back to the easy blaming of George Bush and his 8 years as President? He made some mistakes, for sure. But I think he could do a much better job than recent Democrat candidates for his office, including St Barack Hussein O.

And the history of our economy and free market system would give obvious solutions to our current problems. Does President Obama and his administration not know history? It seems so. They are repeating all the bad decisions from the past, and they expect new results. The are creating socialist positions that have been proven not to work. Alfred Einstein once defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” That's the exact problem with the Democrats. They never learn. Or remember Winston Churchill: "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

I wrote this several months ago. Sadly, it's still true in fact. The President's administration is leading us down the road to oblivion.
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Just to update you on what's been happening:

- President Obama [PO] wants to oversee World financial firms.
- PO appoints 'czars' [a gross term] answerable only to him and not Congress.
- US deficit is growing by the $trillions.
- US spending is at multiples of revenue.
- US Government owns most of the Auto Industry.
- US Government owns much of the Banking Business, refusing to let some pay back their loans.
- US Government wants to run Health Care.
- Health Care will cost more for less coverage.
- $$trillions of new taxes here or on the way.
- PO and Democrat Congress show intent on Islamizing the US.
- PO is actively apologizing for all US actions and beliefs.
- PO is weakening the US military in words and action.
- PO wants to close GITMO and release terrorists in US.
- PO wants to give GITMO terrorists US civil rights
- PO is doing nothing to stop illegal immigration except trying to thwart those who are trying to enforce the immigration laws---oh, he is bemoaning it.
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There are increased efforts to gain access to PO's birth records. PO has issued an executive order [day after taking the oath] to prevent any release of records pertaining to PO that he doesn't approve. And his school and other records are being secured by the institutions involved. But think about it. If he was born in Kenya, a claim that seems increasingly likely to be proven, then he isn't a citizen! And that makes him an illegal alien! And that is evident with his policy over border security. Imagine that, an illegal alien as President. Thank you Democrats.
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President Barack Obama, whose gay and lesbian supporters have grown frustrated with his slow movement on their priorities, is extending benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, a White House official said recently.
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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.549,css.print/pub_detail.asp

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.672/pub_detail.asp

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1248/pub_detail.asp

These are three links to a frank discussion on nuclear energy, including how nuclear energy works.
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More security? Hire law breakers.

Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, back in October, the following people are on the Atlanta Police Force: Keovongsa Siharath [charged with punching his stepfather]; Jeffrey Churchill charged with assault in a a mall parking lot]; Calvin Thomas arrested on a concealed weapons charge.] All three are now officers with the Atlanta Police Department.

"More than one-third of recent Atlanta Police Academy graduates have been arrested or cited for a crime, according to a review of their job applications. The arrests ranged from minor offenses such as shoplifting to violent charges including assault. More than one-third of the officers had been rejected by other law enforcement agencies, and more than half of the recruits admitted using marijuana."
And we've wondered aloud how this Democratic VP's private meetings with unnamed people on unnamed subjects differs from the private meetings with unnamed people that his evil predecessor had that got so many Democratic senators and representatives worried about nefarious secrets."
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Wonder what Joe Biden's up to? Per Andrew Malcolm:

"...We've especially noted Biden's innumerable "private meetings" that are closed to the press because, well, they're private..."

"...And we've wondered aloud how this Democratic VP's private meetings with unnamed people on unnamed subjects differs from the private meetings with unnamed people that his evil predecessor had that got so many Democratic senators and representatives worried about nefarious secrets."

'Do as we say, and not what we do' is---as usual---the Democrat mantra. How many times do the electors have to be reminded of such things before the dangerous Congress and President are removed from office at the polls? The sad thing is, I'd be more comfortable with 'Pistol' Joe as President than the messiah. And in 2010, maybe we can get rid of them all. 435 new representatives is my cherished dream. That way we won't have to worry about Nancy or Harry succeeding Joe.

What Part Goes to Heaven?

2009-06-16T14:44:00.002-04:00

My blog entries have been missing lately because of health concerns I've had to deal with. I intend to return to posting my blogs regularly.

And as part of patriotic effort to be 'green', I'm going to recycle by heavily editing and updating one of my blogs from two years ago. Amazingly, the gist of the blog is still quite current.

I'm always amazed at the number of people who respond to the Conservative columns and articles on various web sites. Indeed, I'm amazed at the passion, vitriol, misinformation, lack of logic, mis-interpretation of events, and the ability to create something from nothing. I speak, of course, of our 'friends' the Liberals.

Tell me please, were they all born like that? Or was their Liberalism a taught or conscious effort? I can't understand such continual manipulation of reality coming from a serious person. So, I must conclude that a genetic flaw or a special kind of insanity must be required to be a Liberal.

I was once read an opinion by Dinesh D'Souza about Liberal myths and radical Islam, and it was followed by over a hundred comments of varying quality, mostly the poorly written Liberal kind. Perhaps Liberals should be forced to take literacy and intelligence tests before being given keyboards?

What I've learned over the years is that the radical Islamic Arabs don't need any particular reason to hate. Their lives are devoted to misinterpretation, misinformation, hate, murder, racism, mysogyny and the expected 70 virgins each in Heaven after they've killed themselves [I know. The last two concepts don't really mesh.] They're taught those things from toddlerhood. I can't say they're killing an inordinate number of westerners in Iraq with their suicide bombing---some yes, but not as many as the main-stream media would have us believe. Actually, they're killing mostly fellow Islamic Arabs. And thankfully, such bombings are in decline.

Tell me now, do the above mentioned activities rate high on the list of anyone's understanding of right and wrong or God? And for you you pavlovian Liberal reactors, would you like to spend a month living in Bagdad interacting with the populace?

For a moment, let's assume there are 70 virgins in Heaven for each suicide bomber [Though, I'm not sure how many virgin hunks are reserved for the female bombers.] And it's uncertain where these virgins would come from---but let's skip that problem for this discussion. If they're [the virgins] in Heaven to glorify God as passed souls are, why would they be interested in some sleazeball, maniacal suicide bombers of men, women, and children? And won't these bombers be missing a few vital body parts as well? Bombs do distribute "debris", don't they? Since they don't believe in our Western concept of the soul, just what part of them is going to be in the hereafter or hereunder? Is Isis or her handmaidens going to be around to put these suicide bombers back together again? Why would the goddess want to do it anyway? Didn't she have enough trouble with her brother Osiris? [Humpty Dumpty call your office.]

On the other hand, what makes anyone think that such bombers will gain Heaven in the first place? Is that the kind of Heaven the average Islamic ArabS think exists? That doesn't seem quite right. Heaven is Heaven. Heaven is a reward for good in its many manifestations. Murderers need not apply.

But one has to wonder as well, why do the so-called peaceful Islamic Arabs permit this pernicious radicalism to continue? How can we believe that Islam is a religion and not a cult? How can we believe that Islam has peace in it's message? It's up to the average adherents of Islam to start showing some common sense, toleration, and a real message of peace. They need to start actively opposing the radicals.

This farce of a peaceful religion---has been apparent for centuries.

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were sent to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman or (Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). They inquired "concerning the ground[s] of the pretensions [of Tripoli] to make war upon nations who had done them no injury." The ambassador replied:

It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every muslim who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.

Another thing I wonder about is the philosophical and scientific thought of the Middle East. Recently, our President spouted the non-existent contributions to our society by the Muslims. It was laughable, and proves again this Country is being 'led' by a group of amateurs. Several thousand years ago, some of the Arabic doctors, thinkers and tinkerers were the best in the world. What happened? Oh, wait a minute? The Arabs didn't invade the area until the 7th century. I forgot. Anyway, anything modern in the Arab world seems to originate in the West. Tell me now. Take away the so-called 'Koran scholars' and what's left? Where are the Arab thinkers? Scientists? Where are the Arab scientific institutes? The Arab airplane factories? The Arab think-tanks? International Arab auditing firms? The sanctioned Arab Women Rights groups? The large scale Arab Food production? Anyone taste the new Jordanian Cornflakes lately?

I've got nothing against average Arabs mind you [I like the people, their food, and much of their culture], but their radical brethren have done them a great disservice with their criminal activities, as has their adherence to a violent 'religion.' As Will Rogers used to say, "I only know what I read in the papers." And I don't see anything that impresses me about the Middle East lately, even with the Liberal bias in most main-stream media news items. Besides, you don't have to be among the radical Arabs to be maniacal. The Iranians aren't Arabs. In reality, they're Persians---from the name of the country before Iran. I like the old labeling better. Yet, they're all Muslims with the associative violent and sexist agendas. And I wouldn't be holding a beer and hot dog picnic in Iran anytime soon, despite recent reformist uprisings.

Our interest in the Middle East is essentially based on the need for oil. There's no secret about it. Our national interests depend on oil. Our military needs oil. Our industry depends on oil. Our farms, homes, and consumer product industries depend on oil. Gasoline; plastics; chemicals; foods; clothing; paints; inks; aeronautical fuel; pesticides; handheld blackberries; computers; telephones; buildings; swimming pools---Can the Liberals shun all these and other related products? If they did, we wouldn't have to worry about them. They'd probably lack even the essentials of civilization. [Though they could still have toilet paper, as long as it's all handmade from dead leaves, and they only use a few sheets at a time.] The same with all the other Liberals and closet communists around the world. [Don't worry Ted; scotch isn't made with oil; they use peat for the smoke.]

Alternatives to oil used for energy? Well, we can't produce more nuclear power because the Liberals keep fighting plant construction. We can't build more dams for hydroelectric power because the Liberals don't like them either. And don't put up any windmills near a Liberal's home, they'll spoil the view. Though a few windmills near Al Gore's home might be a good idea. Imagine being able to put all that hot air to good use.

Pundits now say that oil is headed for $250 a barrel. Imagine that? And still the Liberals call for more windmills, solar power panels, fewer nuclear power plants, and most dastardly, less exploration and use of our own oil and coal resources. It seems they want the US to fail.

If no oil was to be found in the Middle East, the rest of the world would probably leave the area alone so the radicals could play King of the sand dune and kill one other---as long as they kept it local, no one would be concerned. But they probably wouldn't. Exportation of terror seems to be an inborn trait and would probably continue no matter what the circumstances. [Let's see, 70 virgins times a million or so suicide bombers is about 70 million virgins just for the radical Islamic Arabs themselves. That's a lot of chastity!]

But, stability in the Middle East is now essential for everyone, and allowing the radical and semi-radical Islamic Arabs to kill each other won't do anyone any good, especially those on the short end of the stick. So are we there trying to knock some sense into a subjugated people, or to allow them to gain their own freedom and rule with some chance of peace and tranquility for a change? Haven't we deposed a maniacal leader who has used WMD in the past [against his own citizens?] Haven't we killed a pile of terrorists who would otherwise be killing people in the US and other countries---even more than they do now?

Is everything going to turn to crapola if we leave too soon? You bet it is. $10 gasoline would be the least of our worries. The Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe would feel the effects of unbridled Islamic terror, and they would have no rights left to ask the US for help as they have so often in the past. And now our President wants to close Gitmo and foist the dangerous radicals back on the American people with all the rights we thought we had, but which are slowly eroding under the Obama administration. Along with his apologizing for everything else American, I'm surprised President Obama hasn't apologized for 9/11.

Well King Kong is dead, and the lemurs aren't big enough. Now, as a parting thought, why don't we move the Liberals to the Middle East where they can have love-ins with the resident maniacs and sleazeballs. To paraphrase Neville Chamberlain: "We could have peace in our time."

Acme Bread and Milk Conglamerate, Gold, and the Lawyers

2009-05-07T13:18:00.002-04:00

I heard these commercials recently. Yeah, I did! They're all over the airwaves.

1. The lawyers [commercial running every ten minutes, 24 hours a day.]

Have you suffered financially or physically from the new administration's quest to throw money at, buy into, and socialize everything in sight? Are you suffering from the constant attacks on traditional religion and free speech, the increasingly accepted aberrant behavior, the loss of Constitutional protections and the higher cost of living? It's easy to suffer since the threats are so pervasive. If so, call 1-800-555-0000 and speak with one of our 32,642 attorneys manning the phones 25/8. You've been hurt, and you deserve satisfaction with a high monetary settlement so you can pay the excessive new taxes due now or in the near future, and help your grandchildren pay off the fast increasing national debt.* As an ad says, 'Nobody intimidates our clients. Nobody.'**

*Our 45% of the settlements received fund our payroll of $249,999 per attorney.
** except us

2. The coin [commercial running every three minutes, 24 hours a day.]

Now available! A 24-carat gold* quarter-sized coin of the new Presidential administration. Deeply etched on the front side is the image of the President bowing deeply to an Arab prince because the prince is only one foot tall. Surrounding the scene are the letters spelling 'United Socialized States of America', and in large letters the positive accomplishments of the Obama administration so far or anticipated.

On the reverse are the images of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi [with tiny representations of Hillary Clinton, Jeremiah Wright, and Bill Ayres.] Words surrounding the images convey the accomplishments of the Democrat Congress in the past five years along with the complete list of positive political and social results from Democrats in the past twenty years, and the qualifications of the President for his office. No state identification is provided because of the uncertainty as to where the President was born. The images of Africa and a bald eagle with toupe and lead wing weights are in the center, backing the above noted faces.

Buy your collector's coin or coins at an amazing television direct price of $0! That's no misprint folks. The cost is $0$ Just pay shipping and handling of $2,000 per coin--call now folks, 'cause you know we can't do this all day. There's a limit of 20 coins per caller**, and all profits go directly to the House and Senate Democrat slush fund. You can't do any better than that!***

* plated over plastic
** per broadcast
*** each coin is imbedded in pure plastic to prevent fingerprints and examination

3. The Food Ad

Buy now at great prices! Buy your bread and milk directly from Acme Bread and Milk Conglamerate. Pay for ten or more years of bread and milk products now for future delivery. Avoid the 150% taxes of the Obama administration on these items set to take place in three months. Selection of breads is large, and costs only $8.95 per loaf; milk and cream productions range from $10 per gallon to $6 per pint. And as a special for our law enforcement families, donuts are on the menu at only $3 each! Choices will be stored in our airy, wooden warehouses for free for the selected time period! Payment in advance is required to avoid the new taxes. Delivery is free except for the new $200 per order delivery tax. We use only rehabilitated, electric- and peddle-driven Volkswagon Beetles for these deliveries driven by uniformed grade schoolers. Call now at the number shown on the screen. We have warehouses across the country, and our corporate offices are in the Grand Caymens. We aim to please! We aim to save you $thousands of the new taxes. Buy now and receive a free collectors coin---as noted in our previous ad---for only $50!

*Sorry, but freshness and purity not guaranteed.

The sad thing about these ads is that they could all be true. Our future is in the hands of amateurs. Please God, bring 2010 quickly.

Abraham We Have Lost Our Way

2009-04-17T00:39:00.000-04:00

Hi folks. It's me again. You know, one from the patriotic and disgusted American populace?. You remember us. We're the millions of people who disagree with Congress and the President in Washington as they continue to dismantle our Country. Each day brings us so much closer to collapse, while our PO bows to foreign 'leaders' and gives away the store---including our armament, while sitting idly by while foreign maniacs do their missile tests and continue to defy sanctions. [Which really don't do any good when you're dealing with maniacal dictators.] And don't give our PO credit for the rescue of Richard Phillips. Give it to the officer on site who ordered it. It was something that he should have been permitted to do immediately.

According to Homeland Security's what's-her-name, pretty much anyone who disagrees with the current dismantling of the Country is a extremist right-wing zealot---and that includes the returning military who are liable to join the radicals.

Sure, she apologized later, but that doesn't make a bit of difference. The administration said it because it believes it. The Democrats lie and cheat and fight every election to disqualify the military absentee ballots, and hide their own pre-election ballots for their candidate so they can be found afterwards. They're the dangerous ones.

This administration has shown itself to be against homeland defense, the defense of liberty, and our sovereignty. Example after example comes to the fore every day. I don't need to repeat every item as there are so many: illegal immigration and amnesty; closing of Gitmo and releasing prisoners who will rush to the nearest al-Quaeda cell to start plotting against us; destruction of our national sovereignty; over-the-top spending of our heirs' money; general mismanagement of the Country's assets; you name a right, and Washington is currently working to deny it.

Since PO is such a fan of Abraham Lincoln---who's probably rolling over in his grave---here are a few quotes from our sixteenth President that should be guiding the administration of the forty-fourth president.

- "You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." This should be read and understood by those who handle our welfare systems.

- "Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties." These words should be studied by PO and the those in power in Congress. None of them seem to understand our Constitution and the guarantees of rights---not the bestowing of rights---the guarantees of rights already in the lives of men and women.

- "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." Our PO and the Democrat power brokers in Congress should read these words daily and try to understand them. I know the understanding may be above their 'pay grades,' but they need to try.

Oh Oh! Here comes Thomas Jefferson [President number three] to make his voice heard.

- "A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government." I known. I know. This is quite a mouthful. But OUR servants in Washington should be understanding the concept and pursuing it in law. They tax productivity highly, and give the funds away to those who don't want to work or are here illegally [and those who don't want to work]. [Don't complain. I known there are worthy cases for welfare. I'm not against them.] If these Congressional spendthrifts can't understand the concept, they should resign their offices.

- "Never spend your money before you have earned it." Now this is a concept foreign to politicians in Washington. There efforts can be called: 'Spend all you can now to install socialism and let your grandchildren and great-grandchildren pay the bills.'

Now, let's consider our first president, George Washington.

- "If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter." Tell this to those loonies who want the mis-named 'Fairness Doctrine' [---designed to quell conservative radio speech. The liberals can't draw much of an audience, and thus they go off the air with all sorts of excuses.] The Liberals and Socialists-in-chief are attacking anyone who voices a problem with this out-of-control administration and claiming them to be 'right-wing extremists', and so identifying any dissident voice as 'radical' and 'dangerous.' Those clowns in Washington are the dangerous ones.

Let us depart with some words of wisdom from Ronald Reagan, our fortieth President.

- "Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing." And the least 'individuals' of this country are being sacrificed on the altar of socialism.

- "Man is not free unless government is limited." That sounds like a quote from one of the founding fathers, and it says it all.

- "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." And that's where we're headed. The constant attacks on Christians and any religion other than Islam is running at ridiculous proportions.

- "To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy." Unfortunately, our current PO took the oath with just that in mind.

Big Brotherism is working hard to destroy us. And, I'm thoroughly disgusted with these current political activities and fearful for our future---if any. I can't get around like I used to, but if I could I'd be at every Tea Party I could find.

The Taxman Cometh

2009-04-08T17:54:00.003-04:00

Back in 1980, Robin Williams starred in the movie 'Popeye,' and I thought it was a terrific and funny effort. I especially noted the unnamed 'taxman' who walked around taxing everything and everybody. Sound familiar? Just for a reference, let's take a look at a small portion of the movie dialogue shortly after Popeye enters Sweet Haven. The taxman bicycled out on the pier before Popeye could light his pipe.

"The Tax Man: You just docked?
Popeye: I has.
The Tax Man: Ah ha, let's see here, that'll be 25¢ docking tax.
Popeye: What for?
The Tax Man: Where's your sea craft?
Popeye: It ain't no sea craft, it's me dinghy and it's under the wharf.
The Tax Man: Ah ha. ahh-ha. This your goods?
Popeye: They is.
The Tax Man: Yeah. You're new in town right?
Popeye: If you call this a town, yes.
The Tax Man: Well, first of all, there's 17¢ new-in-town tax, and there's 45¢ rowboat-under-the-wharf tax, and one dollar leaving-your-junk-lying-around-the-wharf tax, so all together, you owe the Commodore $1.87.
Popeye: Uh, who's this Commodore?
The Tax Man: Is that the nature of question? There's a nickel question tax."

Does that sound a lot like our federal and state tax departments?

My new net pay after weekly taxes.

Well consider these recent tidbits from a mostly Democrat-led Congress and State Legislatures.

Federal tobacco taxes went through the roof April 1, basically from 39 cents a pack to $1.01. Many states are up to $2 a pack, with New York taxing $2.76 per pack. A friend of mine now says packs here in Connecticut are up to $7 retail. A newspaper article from a small town in New York says it's over $8, and I'm told it's $9 in New York City.

The federal tax on cigarette-sized cigars went from 4 cents to the $1.01. increasing the retail price accordingly.

According to Reuters, "State and local lawmakers are pushing taxes on booze, drugs, strip clubs and just about everything under the sun...New York's resident grinch, Gov. David Paterson, tried suggesting a kind of omnibus fun-busting budget that would have taxed New Yorkers for skiing, golfing, camping, being fat, being skinny, going to the movies, going to plays, wearing clothing, going to strip clubs and having more than six fingers or toes. The governor, who is up for re-election next year, came to his senses about three weeks ago and renounced the budget, perhaps when an adviser noted that political contributions aren't tax-deductible.

"Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty has proposed a slew of new taxes...to meet his city's massive deficit. His first target: budget-busting street lights, which Washingtonians will now fund with an extra $51 monthly tax.

Bloomberg news noted that "President Barack Obama is putting former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker in charge of a tax-code review aimed at closing loopholes, streamlining the law and generating revenue, budget Director Peter Orszag said."

Breitbart reports that "President Barack Obama is defending a budget idea that would reduce the tax deduction that wealthier families can take when they make charitable donations...President Obama's recommended reduction in the tax deduction for charitable giving reflects his fundamental belief that only the government can or should help the poor. He wants to keep the impoverished directly dependent on the government -- and the Democratic Party -- for their daily bread."

Again, Bloomberg reports that "the U.S. Senate rejected a proposal by President Barack Obama to finance an overhaul of the nation’s health-care system by limiting the ability of the well-to-do to take tax deductions for charitable contributions."

It's also been reported that the White House said it would launch a search for new tax revenues, as Congressional leaders moved to scale back proposed spending increases and tax cuts in President Barack Obama's ambitious budget.

Now, all you readers who believed in hope and change can enthusiastically start forking over your money to the Obama-ites. The above aren't the only cases of new taxes or tax increases.

It all makes one wonder how long it'll be before the taxes exceed our incomes. Maybe Sweet Haven with all the comic characters wouldn't be such a bad place after all.

Random Comments on the 'Big O'

2009-03-20T16:05:00.000-04:00

Actually, the 'Big O' nomen was first applied to Oscar Robinson, a former NBA star when 'star' was only used to designate true 'stars', and not every player scoring five points in a basketball game.
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One of the first things the new President did was to appoint Rahm Emmanuel to chief of staff. Emmanuel is a harsh partisan, and his appointment as chief of staff had been previously denied by Obama during the campaign. And of course, we're also supposed to forget his connection with the disgraced Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich---not to mention Presidential friends and confidants Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers. Naturally, the Obama administration has denied any wrongdoing or connections.

Mark January 20, 2009 as the beginning of the end of America's superpower status. Not only that, but an ailing economy will be given a dose of poison. It's past health will determine how much damage can be done. The Liberals have pulled the wool over the eyes of the electorate majority, and now we're going to see just how much damage the Liberal/Socialists will do to us.
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Seen in a recent email from my brother:

'PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Due to the recent economic crisis, stock market crash, budget cuts,
rising unemployment, unstable world conditions, outsourcing of
business, the cost of insurance, electricity, petroleum and taxes of
all kinds, we regret to advise you that the Light at the End of the
Tunnel has been turned off until further notice.

We apologize for any inconvenience.'
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Sad to say, apparently a meteorite landed in Westchester County a few months ago with quite a boom. The newspaper article was short and to the point, but the comments had a distinctly juvenile flavor. Virtually all I read were concentrated on the 'Alien vs Earthman' concept. Earth to the newest generations!! Is anyone there?
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'Excuses' is the major new industry in the 21st Century. True to the Democrat/Liberal way of life, no one is responsible for anything. It's always the other guy, be he a business owner, rich man or woman, Republican or Conservative, or average white male. And that's part of the problem plaguing the new years of the 21st Century. Blame it on Bush. Blame it on Republicans or Conservatives. Run and hide from the truth. Be sure you have an excuse when you're caught. It was drugs, alcohol or national economic poison pills or the racism---which I see mostly in the black community. Surely, these Liberal/Socialists were forced on you? Or did you choose to partake and be sucked into the trap?
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President Obama says that handing out the AIG bonuses is 'hard to understand.' I find his comment hard to understand. During the campaign numerous voices were raised telling all Americans how Obama lacked the experience and executive know-how to run the country. Being an ego-driven socialist at heart, Obama has added the 'I' to 'run the country' thus creating a phrase 'ruin the country.'

Bonuses are contractual in many companies, and in AIG they're probably going to people who had little or no responsibility for the virtual collapse. And these are just the people needed to bring the company back to health. Thus, if Congress is going to tax them 90%, these people might bolt to other companies who actually appreciate their abilities. Besides, the specific 90% tax is probably unconstitutional. And it is being put into place to cover the Democrat screw-ups, such as Senator Dodd's amendment 'protecting' the bonuses, and the whole spending spree in general. If this is a sign of how the 'government ownership' will be plyed, the free market system is in for a beating.

Is it any coincidence that some Europeans are calling for the demise of the dollar as an International currency? And what is Obama doing while these things are going on? Bowling, picking NCAA brackets, and appearing on a late night comedy-variety show---surprisingly without teleprompters---thus his spoken gaff? He's letting his socialist, tax evading appointees to do the dirty work.
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Actually, the public should be hopping mad. Not about the AIG bonuses, but against the billions of $$$ of pork in the spending bills. That's the real waste in the economy. Not only are $$$ being sent for pork projects, money is going to socialist groups like ACORN---though Obama and friends claim to never have known the group. Obama worked for them, but he doesn't remember it. Besides, the current spending spree is very ill advised and not going to solve our economic problems---only expand them.

President Obama is not only spending money like a drunken sailor, but he is presiding over the unconstitutional AIG bonus tax; at least $1 trillion in new taxes---notably on the job and economic providers; a huge deficit and public debt because of the poorly structured 'stimulus' bills, and everything else he and his henchmen touch.

It'll be 2010 before we can do anything about this. And in that election we can at least make our voices heard in Congress. But right now, if we got rid of Obama, we'd be stuck with the fumbling ninny, Joe Biden. And after him is screaming mimi Nancy Pelosi, and then the sometimes incoherent socialist Harry Reid---who needs no other introduction. We have to go down the list until we reach Joe the Plumber before we can appoint a reasonable person.

Good luck my friends, it's going to be a rocky future.

The Gold-Twin Random Smoking Mysteries

2009-03-09T18:35:00.004-04:00

It appears the made-for-tv-sale coin dealers are back again with their half truths and misleading statements. Case in point is the NCM offer of a 1929 Indian Head Proof for $24.45 delivered. Though the large print says 'Last $5 Indian ever struck by the U.S. Gov't---that is not what you'd be buying. '...Non-legal tender proof is a classic collectible...' Maybe, depending on what you're collecting and how smart a collector you are. These are certainly not real coins nor even completely gold. The original $5 Indian coin is 90% pure gold, [100% gold would be unworkably soft] while this 'replica' is only gold plated.

Obama Administration computer system---------------------------->

The term 'proof' is also bandied about. However, much as that would indicate a struck coin proof, this is not the case. Why? Because this is not a U S coin! Furthermore I don't know what the NCM uses for research, but I question the statement that '...With its historic importance, scarce population and unique design, it's no wonder that one of the original 1929 $5 Gold Indians recently sold for $34,100!...' You can get an uncirculated $5 gold Indian [the real McCoy] from the Home Shopping Network for $710, a more realistic price to quote.

Again, the NCM states that '...There is a strict limit of five Proofs per order. Orders will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis...' I found the same 'gold piece' being offered on at least seven other websites for similar prices. And I don't remember any of them limiting the purchases to five or any other number. I don't believe the NCM limitation will be followed. If you have the money, NCM has the product! No real limitation. Just for you, we'll make an exception.

According to my calculations with the current retail price of gold leaf, I've considered one-eighth of a gram of gold leaf per coin. I sent an email to NCM [1/19/09] asking about the gold content, but I haven't heard back yet [3/09/09.] In any case, the bulk-buying cost of an 1/8th gram of gold leaf [1 sheet] would be about $6. So, your '1929 Indian Head Proof' from NCM has about $6 in gold. Although I saw the piece for sale on Ebay for $60 [I also saw numerous inexpensive books selling for $1,000,000 each! A matter of listing order on the database, I suppose], most resales should be much lower than $24.45.

And you can't accept any claims that the piece is uncirculated, because it's not a coin, and it would never be circulated in the first place. So, as I noted in my last essay on silver pieces, 'buy the ['1929 $5 Indian Head Proof'] if you want, but don't buy it for use or investment.'
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Aren't you sick and tired---as I am---of these tv ads for lawyers? It seems they'll pounce on anything to make a buck. You see, according to the legal profession---like the Liberals---no one is guilty of anything. To the contrary, someone else is always guilty---even if the practice or product in question has been accepted for many years or decades without the dubious advantage of today's Liberal hindsight.

Take cigarettes for an example. Even as a school kid in the fifties, I knew their use would lead to cancer or breathing problems. I didn't need a surgeon general or lawyer to tell me. Everyone I knew who used cigarettes, knew they were dangerous. But their pleasure outweighed the danger, so they continued. And, by the way, I liked Joe Camel and he didn't entice me to buy Camels or any other cigarettes. And I've never seen any positive proof that children were adversely influenced by smokey Joe. I like Popeye, but I don't buy his canned spinach. Nor do I buy Mickey Mouse coloring books.

Now we have court cases awarding millions and billions of dollars to 'aggrieved' parties. If you smoke, you have no business suing the cigarette manufacturers. You knew the danger. Just like we know the danger of driving cars on highways; or hunting; or working in the kitchen; or flying; or entering the military; or riding with a Massachusett's senator on a Saturday night near water.

Life is a continuous flow of danger, and we have to make our ways through it with a minimum of damage to live a long life.

Besides, what the lawyers don't tell you is that they'll take at least a third of your award---if any. So if you win $50,000, you can say good-bye to $15,000 plus the lawyer's expenses. If you win $500,000, you can do the math. And the expenses will suddenly escalate to the lawyer's advantage. Some lawyers will take 40% as a matter of course, so keep your wallets closed.

We have a litigious society simply because the lawyers want it so. And their Liberal cohorts in office continue to provide opportunities for the public to sue everyone else for real or perceived injuries. If you haven't got a case, your lawyer will manufacture one from the flimsiest data he or she can find. All for your benefit? Sometimes I wonder. Meanwhile, resulting prices of our commodities and services will increase to cover the spurious awards---not to mention climbing insurance rates.

Remember, the increasing number of lawyers need more and more litigations to pay their bills and give them lifestyles they think they're entitled to. So, stay in bed and be sure you don't get bed sores.
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I keep seeing these tv commercials about feeding the poor children of the World, such as 'CCFund'. It usually bothers me when I see these sad stories narrated by overweight people. It seems to me, they should be doing a little sacrificing themselves. Sally Struthers call your office.
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UScoinnetwork.com has an announcer for the Obama commemorative coins who sounds exactly like Obama. That's no coincidence. It's a clever c'mon to make the coins to have more of a Presidential connection and sound more momentous than they really are.
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There's a tv advertisement for a to-be-nameless [I don't want the firm suing me!] law firm, you know, one of the millions advertising for mesothelioma cases? One supposed happy client said it all. "They are more than lawyers, they are human beings." So, I guess lawyers are level 1 and humans are level 2?

Drinking the Kool-Aid

2009-03-01T00:44:00.001-05:00

I was in a group recently, and several members were extolling the hope and expectations of the Obama administration. One was so vehement about her support of Obama, I told her she's either still mesmerized by Obamas speaking or else she just drank the 'Kool-Aid.' I thought that was a fair comment to a Liberal who thinks as Obama does, what with the tremendous, pork-filled expenditure authorization and the poor picks for the cabinet and so much more.

So, in her Liberal way, she immediately attacked me for making a racist statement. Racist? Where? When? How? Apparently, my mention of 'Kool-Aid' drinking was racist to her. I'm not surprised that a Liberal would trot out the race card to avoid talking about something substantive---like where are we going with this $12 trillion dollar debt? Why do Liberals instinctively throw money at a problem? There's no substantial economic stimulus in the so-called stimulus bill, on top of the bailout, and now with talks about a second stimulus bill.

Shades of Calumet Farm and the trouble created by Bill Lunday in the 1980s! A once successful, glorious and profitable stable was transformed by his excess living and poor management to bankruptcy and almost to liquidation. Is that what we can foresee from the Obama admistration and Democrat Congress?

By the way, the 'Kool-Aid' reference harkens back to the Jonesboro tragedy and later use by newscasters, and commentators in general. According to Wordspy.com drinking the 'Kool-Aid' is "to become a firm believer in something; to accept an argument or philosophy wholeheartedly or blindly."

That's the usual usage of the term. It's the one I was using. And you Liberals out there who continually believe that every word out of a Conservative person's mouth amounts to racism better get your minds cleaned of all the hogwash.
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A few days ago, the new US Attorney General, Eric Holder, called us all cowards because he believes we don't talk enough about race to each other. Well, that's not surprising when you consider that most of us can't talk about race because the Liberals are out there calling everybody racists---willy nilly. And to add insult to injury, you Liberals are constantly lying---yes lying!---to others, Liberal and Conservative, about the truth regarding race relationships over the years. And we're talking here of blacks and whites, since the current Attorney General is black and most of us are white. The Liberal purpose? Why to get black votes, of course.
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One vocal black woman is Frances Rice, head of the Black Republican Association. She recently gave an interview that can be seen and heard on 'You Tube.' She's saying things that many of us already know. And it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure this stuff out either. Simple understanding of history---true history and not the stuff the Liberals try to foist off on everybody!---will easily lead you to the truth about race relations.

It's well worth going to 'You Tube' and listening to this interview. It may open your eyes. Below are the links to the interview [it's in three parts], or at least I think they may follow. Sometimes, I can't get a link into these blogs. If nothing shows, then go to "You Tube' and enter her name, Frances Rice. That should work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YdEmn7IYOg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2l8NT3XfZE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdNbO4RCj0I&feature=related

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Democrat/Liberal Hold on the Voter

2009-01-19T10:44:00.001-05:00

I'm still fascinated and depressed at the hold Democrats/Liberals have over people. They have a history of involving us in most of our Wars [the Gulf Wars excepted]: WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and many minor skirmishes: Bosnia, Serbia, African aspirin factories. They define themselves with higher taxes, ever-greater spending of our money, over-spending on social programs to the result of bloated, poorly working efforts, reduction of appropriate defense spending and operation, and an excessive 'pork' or 'earmark' policy to keep the voters loyal to them. And then they top it off by claiming to be anti-war.

Democrat/Liberal Lyndon Johnson micro-managed a excursion to Vietnam, thus insuring a loss. Jimmy Carter promised hope, blamed Americans for the national malaise, couldn't free the hostages in Iran, and both went to the bottom of the Presidential list. Neither one was particularly religious in outlook, either.

There are, of course, some exceptions to the Democrat = Liberal equation. And there is a difference between today's Democrat/Liberal and those from the past. In the past, the Liberal was for personal freedom---especially about personal effort and wealth accumulation---appropriate religious influence [i.e. Founding Fathers], individual parenting, accurate education---you know, truth and morality. The revered Democrat, St John F Kennedy, would never have considered himself a Liberal within the modern definition. He knew that reducing taxes increases federal tax collections. But despite the definitive history of this knowledge, Democrats/Liberals continue to want higher taxes to cover the costs of their social policies.

But the modern Democrat/Liberal is different: high taxes, unequal wealth re-distribution from one group to another, thus an attempt to negate the concept of personal effort to gain wealth; throwing money at problems, resulting in more and more money for less and less success; the removal of faith and religious influence from anything remotely the 'state' or group politics; more and more of the 'nanny' state involvement in a personal life; biased and inaccurate education, sometimes akin to Liberal brainwashing.

So, the involvement of the Liberal in 'faith outreach' is not only hypocritical to the real nature of the Liberal, but quite laughable in it's obvious political use.

The Democrats/Liberals are interested in votes, power, and personal aggrandizement. They'll use anything to defeat and destroy their opponents. [Consider Al Gore and Al Frankenstein] Faith outreach is just one more arena in which the Democrat/Liberal will try to mislead the public. While it may work on some people, the citizens of the US who understand the real nature of the Democrats/Liberals will see through their hypocritical and dangerous efforts.

These politicians and power brokers know it's important for the votes and theoretical political backing for them to pursue policies perpetuating moral and economic decline seen in single motherhood, gay 'marriage', over-burdened small business [taxes and regulations], racial preferences, and liberal bias in all areas of culture.

All voters should read between the lines with politicians and hold them to a standard of faith, morality, and truthfulness. Unfortunately, I don't know any of them who could stand up to a real 'Faith Outreach.' Consequently, I expect their efforts to be faithfully futile.

Our president-elect is one of these Liberals, perhaps even a devout socialist. His choices for cabinet positions and other government offices show his socialist bent---and his 'change' is one that brings back many from the Clinton administration. His other announced and 'secret' efforts will fritter away family oriented-religious-free society as we used to know it. PCism and Liberal thought police are turning us into a Country of penned sheep who will believe what Liberals say instead of what they do---not that the latter is particularly good for us.

How blacks can continue to vote Democrat all the time is beyond me. The Democrats have hurt them and promoted selfish attitudes and policies to keep their votes for years, and the Liberal press remains quiet. Racial preferences do little more than provide a fish bowl existence for the blacks and other 'minorities', and harm their potential acceptance as real doers and achievers. But these Democrat/Liberal race and 'minority'preferences, and the use of the 'race card' wherever possible are the bane of our modern culture. Does anyone really think Governor Blagojevich picked Roland Burris for his exceptional talent worthy of Senatorship?

And the Liberal NY Times is not the only part of the media blaming George Bush for just about everything. I expect we'll be hearing a President Obama echoing the sentiment for many years. [Please God! Don't let him and the Democrats get voted in again.] As anyone knows, this present economic debacle was many many years and decades in the making, and the Democrat Congresses can shoulder a lot of blame---though the Liberal media wouldn't even report such truths. It's easier to blame the Republicans. And all this money [debt] being thrown about is a disgrace for the free enterprise system. You can't save all companies and firms and individuals from ruin. It's economically and morally wrong. And it's a continuing effort that will lead to national bankruptcy and moral ruin.

Well, gird yourself and get ready for the next four years [or two years, depending on how much damage the Democrats can do.] It's likely to be a real free-for-all.

You Heard Me! Reid All About It!

2009-01-10T19:08:00.001-05:00

Everytime I read an article about the latest Congressional shenanigans, I get depressed. Unfortunately, I'm not in a position anymore to do anything tangible about my beliefs. I must leave that to the younger conservatives. All I can do is write about it and hope people listen.

I read today about the latest omnibus bill [Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 - S-22] from Harry Reid and Company. It's 1200 pages long---which only the Democrat legal aides can understand---and it's filled with pork. So much for the change we were told to expect. For the most part, the Democrats are ignoring the Republicans and common sense in their ideas for our collective future.

One part of the bill wants to allocate about $500,000,000 to 'restore' a river with at least 500 salmon. [What's that you say? $1,000,000 per salmon? Yup!] Aren't these the creatures which swim against the flow and up the river to spawn? Yup! And then they die---with no guarantees that the little salmon will survive. Harry Reid apparently wants to change that natural fact.

All this is occuring, of course, while we're facing multi-trillion dollar bailouts that won't work in the long run. We'll incur debt while we pay for the mistakes of businesses in the free market system. A grand cleaning is necessary, and bailing out supposed 'vital' industries is poor judgment for our Country's future.

Reid [and sadly one Conservative-Republican ] want to transfer a pile of land that has any chance of containing drillable energy into the federal responsibility acreage where even bicycles won't be allowed. If we continue to leave things up to Reid and the Liberals/Democrats, we'll soon live in one big federally operated reserve, where no drilling or other human activity can take place. Of course [again], that would make us easy pickin's for an enemy, but at least the environment would be Liberal pristine---until the enemy turns it into war-like uses.

One can only be happy that Reid and the Liberals and the Democrats weren't around in the ageless past. They'd have tried to stop the dinosaurs from dying [by edict if necessary], put the Mastadons on the endagered species list, negotiated with Yeti, built fires along the northern border of ice to melt it during the ice age, and then blamed the fires on George Bush as promoting global warming.

I thank God that I'm not a future historian who has to look back to this chaos. I feel like Oliver Hardy, as he dead pans the Democrat leadership: "Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into!"

Vote Again for Me?

2008-12-11T16:27:00.001-05:00

It seems that after more than two hundred years, this Country should have been able to set up an effective election process. Instead, we have States with faulty equipment, registration fraud, voter fraud and recount manipulation---usually all by a specific party whose initials are D*e*m*o*c*r*a*t.

In recent years we've seen the chaos in Florida, Washington State, and Minnesota. Illinois, especially in the Chicago area, is story by itself when it comes to the above noted manipulations of the voting process. Chicago didn't get its reputation for nothing. Nor did the Democrat party over the years. "If you can't win it, steal it." Or, as seen recently with the---surprise!!---Illinois Governor: "if you have an empty Senate seat, sell it!"

In Florida in 2000, despite all the Democrats' tries, including the hanging chads and "intent" of chosen voters, the Republican Presidential candidate still won the state. The Supreme Court merely put a stop to the endless recounts and "hanging chad" attempts. Otherwise, we'd have had no President for the past eight years. We'd still have the endless recounts. [In fact, the Liberal press later finished another recount and came up with the same winner.]

In Washington State, the same process went on in the gubernatorial race. The Democrats kept "finding" more ballots, seemingly whenever they needed them during the recount.

And now we have Minnesota. Why the disgusting personage, Al Franken, was nominated, I'll never know. Why the original tally was so close, I'll never know. But here again, with the help of that same Washington State gubernatorial operative, the Democrats are finding Franken votes all over the place. Well, I don't believe they are proper nor was the initial count correct, either. I believe there were many frauds apparent and in the Democrats' favor. Simply do the math.

And now, Franken wants the names of some voters so he can check on their votes. [Leonid, call your office.] It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. He needs some serious institutional time---and not the Senate.

If Al Franken and the Democrats steal this election, my belief in a fair election system in the Country will be seriously shaken. We need a new, more countrywide conforming system: Picture ID, proof of residence and citizenship, and personally showing up to register; Picture ID for voting. No mail in votes other than for a dam good reason, like it was decades ago; no same day registration/voting; and severely restricted early balloting. The time to stop all this fraud and nonsense is now. Let's get together and get it done. The right to vote is too sacred a right in this Country to let it be constantly manipulated with registration fraud, voter fraud, recount manipulation, non-citizens voting, and the policy of voting early and often with the dead people.

Keeping Christ in Christmas

2008-12-07T00:30:00.000-05:00

I've spent many hours watching Christmas movies and specials on both the broadcast and cable networks. And the references to the religious aspect of the day are few and far between. In fact most of the movies concern variations on "A Christmas Carol" or danger to Santa and the North Pole or the problems of his children or elves, etc. And this is only television.

In general society there has been and is an attack on Christmas from many sides. It seems that any type of 'Christmas' sentiment or display in public is case for a court battle. Or the party in question simply gives in and removes what was there.

This commercialization of and attacks on Christmas have gone too far. I realize that I grew up at a time when the religious nature of Christmas was still fairly strong. But now, not only do the children of the Country not know our religious heritage and special days, they aren't even brought up with a religious attitude. How are they supposed to understand right from wrong? Or even why?

This year, the University of North Carolina removed Christmas trees from its libraries at Chapel Hill NC because of several complaints.

Per the Charlotte Observer: "The trees, which have stood in the lobby areas of Wilson and Davis libraries each December, were kept in storage this year at the behest of Sarah Michalak, the associate provost for university libraries...Michalak's decision followed several years of queries and complaints from library employees and patrons bothered by the Christian display, Michalak said this week." [Scrooge call your office!]

Florida Gulf State University simply banned all open expressions of Christmas.

Per USA Today: "...The newspaper says FGCU administration has banned all holiday decorations from common spaces on campus and canceled a popular greeting card design contest, which is being replaced by an ugly sweater competition...University President Wilson Bradshaw, citing "legal limitations," [anybody know what that nonsensical phrase is supposed to mean?] told the faculty and staff in a memo that many public institutions 'struggle' with how best to honor and respect all traditions during the holiday and FGCU is no exception...He says the decision was not an 'attempt to suppress expression of the holiday spirit.' Staffers will be permitted to display holiday decorations on their desks, but not on their office doors or in common spaces..."

From World Net Daily: "At a time when Americans of many faiths – and even no faith – gear up to celebrate Christmas this year, a first-grade teacher in Sacramento Co., Calif., says she's been ordered by her principal not to utter the word "Christmas" at school...The 24-year education veteran, who wishes to keep her name and the school anonymous at this time, claims she and two fellow instructors were told that use of the word "Christmas" in the classroom or in written materials was now prohibited."

And Bill O'Reilly writes: "Just in time for the Christmas season, Washington State Gov. Christine Gregoire has insulted Christians all over the world...Inside the state Capitol building in Olympia there is a traditional holiday display featuring a tree and the Nativity scene; perfectly appropriate since the federal and state Christmas holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem...But this year Gregoire decided to add another item to the display...Standing alongside the baby Jesus is a giant placard designed by atheists that reads: 'There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.'"

These are just a few examples of what's happening in our society. It's mind boggling. It seems the anti-Christ is arriving in many guises and in public places. Even retail stores and malls have changed 'Merry Christmas' to 'Happy Holidays.'

I recently read the story of a thirty-four year old woman who grew up areligious [thinking the Bible was just a book of fairy tales], became an agnostic, an atheist, spent time involved in modified Satanism and traditional Satanism, and finally settled down to some sort of Christianity because her new boyfriend is Christian. While doing all this she married and divorced a drug-addicted man, and spent too much time in an abusive and brainwashing relationship. This is not the way to live---going from one mess to another. Her parents neglected her upbringing, leading to the later difficulties. We have to try to prevent this sort of thing. We need to instill in our children a minimum sense of religion, anyway. We owe it to them to try. We're the parents, remember? We have a responsibility.

With many of our public schools prohibiting any sign of religion at or near the schools and church attendance down, one has no reason to wonder at the lack of religious thoughts at this time of year---not for Easter either. Much of it is due to cowardice in the face of ACLU threats. [Please, may I have a Christmas present: dissolution of the current ACLU?]

Children are now more interested in electronic games and cell phones [and Easter bunnies and candy] than they are of any religious significance of the day[s]. Creches are hidden if not forgotten. Many children don't see or have never seen the interior of a Church. Sadly, some of the older ones don't care about the day and its meaning or the attacks on it every year. They just want to go and see the new movies which open on December 25th.

We as a nation are forgetting that religious tolerance was a contributing factor in the setting up of our original colonies. It was a stalwart basis for the general responsibilty and work ethic of our new American country. And it was on the minds of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Our Country should be striving to "form a more perfect union" and not to deny religious expression anywhere except the basements and hidden caves or catacombs. Haven't we seen enough of that already?

Agnostics, atheists, and the infamous bastardized ACLU have joined together [though still a very small minority, mind you] to stifle religious expressions anywhere outside the home [for now, anyway.] While minorities should always be respected, they should not have the power to shut down expression in the majority. The majority rule has fallen prey to the minority 'rights' people, thus forcing our Country to become more and more areligious and forgetful of our common heritages and continuing religious rights.

Whether it be Church or Temple, Christmas or Channukah, let's do better to celebrate the season as it should be: with reverence, memory, and humility. It's a celebration of God. The gifts and movies can come later.

Awardi Liberali

2008-12-03T12:57:00.001-05:00

When I was a kid, I had a lot of respect and awe for the winners of the Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and Oscars. I watched the latter every year with bated breath. [I also voted for Miss Rheingold] They were all awards for excellence in my young eyes.

As I grew older [past 12], I realized that there were a lot of somethings wrong with these awards. [Of course, not the Miss Rheingold election---that was one of real consequence.] Reality grew on me slowly---but it did grow. And now, I see so much Liberal crap and politics tied up into these awards---well, they are virtually worthless in my estimation. C'mon now! An award of excellence for Al Gore? Michael Mooooore? It seems that raw Liberalism, inane politicians and sex sex sex are the new manifestations of the 'modern' Liberal beliefs and activities.

Now, we know that a lot of Liberals get these awards for being Liberal and promoting Liberal propaganda. Can't refute that. Do a little research, and you'll find the processes in recent years [up to 30-40] disgustingly unfair and slanted with just that result. [Have you watched a Michael Mooooore movie?]

I've tried to watch, listen to, or read columns and articles by some of these prominent Liberals: Cynthia Tucker; William Raspberry; Michael Moooore; Maureen Dowd; Al Frankenstein; Ellen Goodman; Anthony Lewis; Tom Wicker---and of course those delightfully sensitive whackos on the radio, Don Imus and Howard Stern. I can't do it. They turn me off very quickly with the misinformation, assumption of divinity, vitriol in their hate of anything Republican, Conservative or religious [or in some cases, simple common decency], and basically poor or gutter-like writing or communicating skills.

And they're often hypocrites. Remember when William Raspberry wrote columns that promoted gun control and getting all guns off the street and out of the hands of citizens? It was shortly thereafter that he was arrested for having an unlicensed gun in his possession---and of course, he was released quickly with a slap on the wrist, and the story was conspicuously missing from the Liberal Press after the first, small print revelations. [I imagine if he had been a Conservative columnist, we'd still be hearing and reading about it.]

Liberal Mantra: do what I say, not what I do. And the mantra is normally written by its propagandists in many forms. I once visited the Daily Kos---soiling my mind---and found little there but the usual vitriol against Bush, McCain, Palin and the Republicans and---oh yes, some reporting of rumors in an attempt to find someone [other than the shooter] to blame for the VA Tech tragedy in recent history. [One, of course, set the responsibility at President Bush's door!]

Yes, Liberals do, as a rule, write nonsense, and they shouldn't be awarded anything for it. Some see an improvement in their grammar and basic skills as the years progress---but most don't. I wouldn't even give them an 'A' for effort because they usually fall flat from lack of truth and reality.

I found out recently an Australian scientist claims that cremation is causing global warming [the furnaces, you know] and we should bury our dead in cardboard boxes underneath trees so the decomposing bodies can nourish them to great heights. I can just see Uncle Fred's countenance budding on a hundred branches. Owwwww! Anyway, isn't there a scientific award just for him? [The scientist, not Uncle Fred.] The Al Gore Award for Scientific Accuracy? Or the Michael Moooore 'Truth' in Liberal 'Science' Award? Or the Cheryl Crowe One Square on the Fly Award for Excellence?

One Townhall poster claimed that, since the left controls the awards, left wing writers should be winning most of them. Well, the last time I checked, being a Liberal [in its current or recent manifestation] was not among the original criteria for any of these awards. As I remember it, the word "Excellence" was always bandied about. And there aren't any Liberals of excellence---or at least I haven't come across any. Propaganda is NOT excellence. So again, why no excellent Conservative writers in the chase? Too sane for the judges?

I once owned a book store, and after Maya Angelou won the Pulitzer prize, I tried to read her books of poems and autobiography. They are unreadable, uninteresting, and definitely not worth the time invested. I found the same problems with other Liberal authors---whose books never sold. There are too many to mention individuals, but the names Koch and Greene come to mind.

Let's get back to 'excellence' instead of 'ideology' as the basis for awards. And, personally, I think my blog should receive and award from Joe the Pulitzer or somebody. At least it's not Liberal.

Global Warming by Golly

2008-11-25T17:39:00.000-05:00

Since the Global Warming religion has been given a lot of air time, I thought I'd bring out some truths that are generally accepted. We anti-believers need the air time too.

Book of Genesis: "...So God created man in His own image...male and female...and God blessed them...be fruitful and multiply [hardly an approval of the gay life, is it?,] and replenish the Earth, subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the Earth..."

Now, I'm no theologian or deep reader of the Bible, but I do believe it is the inspired Word of God; and it seems clear to me that Man [a traditional collective word to mean men and women] is responsible for the Earth, and he can use the animals as needed for food or other purposes.

Our bodies are not made to prosper with only grains, fruits, and vegetables [or tofu.] Beef, lamb, fish, crustaceans, fowl, pork, and other meats and delicious delicacies are traditional foods and necessary varieties in our omnivoric diet---along with the popular grains, vegetables, and fruits and related beverages. Of course those of you eating legumes may get a substantial amount of protein [and gas], but it's not the same quality. Meat of all kinds is a necessary and concentrated source of protein. 'Man cannot live on beans alone.'

Why do you think herbivores have to eat so much? It's not because they really like it [after all, they're eating grass, roots, leaves, hay, etc.], it's because they have to eat a great deal of vegetable matter to gain their needed nutrients.

By the way, animal carnivores aren't too fussy. They'll devour most animals they can run down and eat---including us. They seem to know which of their fellow animals they can devour---except those protected by nature like porcupines, skunks and the like. If the PC crowd wants something to do, how about working to change nature so that these carnivores can be satisfied with a vegetarian menu of salads and, oh say, watercress sandwiches. They can have well-dressed penguins serve them. I'll finance a trip to the Serengeti for two or three of the crowd to try their efforts with pride[s].

Now, I'm not promoting cruelty to animals in any way. We have pets and there are wild animals that need reasonable protection. As for raised, hunted and butchered animals, they deserve protection from cruelty until the end. It's what the human in us demands. Of course, many people don't like butchering, but they're fine eating the resultant products. They also wear shoe leather and use other animal byproducts, such as some perfumes.

One concept that most sane scientists grasp---but which Liberals don't---is that no matter what man does---or can do right now---he isn't going to affect the globe as a whole to a great extent. Really! And when there are global changes---and there still will be---they will be natural and in spite of all of our efforts to change them. 'Terraforming' is still a science-fiction subject. But of course, local climate can still be affected by us, such as smog and other pollution. But, that still will be localized [locality can encompass thousands of square miles], and we should fight it locally. So, stop the global panic, already. If a meteor hits or a volcano annihilates itself, our weather will change for quite some time, maybe even for a few years. But don't blame man.

[Actually, if a meteor hits and affects the weather, it will already have killed millions. So, we'll have other things to worry about.]

Our current global fair weather is not the norm, no matter how many Al Gores out there may think it is. Ice ages, warming trends, and additional earthquake and volcano activity are typical to Earth, and they aren't going to stop because we wish them to.

So, think about it. The Earth has survived greater problems than man can throw at it, what with meteors, comets, volcanos, deadly atmospheres, earthquakes, ice ages, solar flares and the like. But expensive 'solutions' to try and deal with unchangeable problems or natural changes in climate are just like 'pi$$ing against the wind'.

So, Liberals, lock the doors of your Global Warming Churches and Temples and go home. Your crabgrass is calling you.

Mark His Words

2008-11-13T19:24:00.000-05:00

Many authors in times past have had unique commentary on the politics of the time. None seemed particularly enamored of politicians in general or Congressmen [male or female, and to include the Senators] in particular. And among the greater minds commenting on this subject was Mark Twain.

"Fleas can be taught anything that a Congressman can."

Congress isn't very popular these days---and with good reason. Over the last few years in particular, the work of Congress hasn't been above average in any way. Bills and attitudes have been far away from the good of the people but close to the interests of the same Congressmen and their friends.

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

Some Congressmen have been investigated for wrong-doing---though nowhere near enough---some convicted, and some running for the hills of their home states. And we still have un-convicted [and convicted] Ku Klux Klanners, manslaughterers, and bribe takers representing us. Constituent approval ratings have hovered in the single digits. Yet these criminals continue to be elected and ply their 'wares.'

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

And what about our courts? Noteworthy is the Supreme Court, where there may be several replacement justices in the next several years. They won't be Conservatives, that's for sure.

"I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them."

Unfortunately, a Liberal judge will always gum up the wheels of progress. There is a solid track record here. Legislating from the bench has been and will always be a problem---and yet it remains so very popular.

And what about the current crop of 'journalists?' I speak softly there because the journalism today is not what it has been in the past. It was more civil back in Twain's day, and he still had little good to say about the practitioners. Even in Franklin Roosevelt's time there was more civility. Case in point was the unwritten rule that no photographs of the President's crutches and braces were ever shown in the newspapers or newsreals. There were other such civilities from the press, notably in the war where so many embedded journalists wrote about the war with the idea of a victory in mind. Today, America is at fault---especially President Bush---for seemingly every conflict and problem in the World.

"That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."

So, it seems Mark Twain---more than a hundred years ago---recognized the present and future pulse of Congress and Journalism. We've seen both fail us in numerous ways, and I don't expect it to stop. It's too bad honest people in Congress never seem to get the important leadership positions. If they could, they might be able to raise the Congressional approval rating a few points.

'Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.'

Never Lose Sight

2008-11-05T15:17:00.001-05:00

It's necessary for me to post to my political blogs today, in light of yesterday's win by Barack Obama.

Firstly, I stand by every word I've written in these past months. My thoughts and ideas remain as they were and have been. But, I must accept the reality of an Obama presidency. It's there. And I can't deny it. I can fear it, but I can't deny it.

My hope is that Obama's 'hope and change' don't damage us too much, though I sadly believe they will. With a future Liberal Supreme Court, hard liberal Congress, and Obama to guide them all, we as a Country may have bitten off more than we can chew. It could take generations to repair the damage to our society. But there isn't anything I can do about from here except speak my piece on a regular basis.

The biggest ray of sunshine remaining to me is Sarah Palin. You on the left have bitterly and unfairly attacked her and her family unceasingly, and she has survived with flying colors. I think the Liberals of the Country will have much to worry about from her sanity and competence. She's a conservative and pragmatic star, and I believe 2012 or 2016 will be her shining hour---and ours as a nation. She still has more knowledge and practical experience than our President-elect.

The other ray is that in two years we can make some needed adjustments. The entire House of Representatives and part of the Senate are up for election again, and maybe we can correct some of our mistakes. At least that would put some control over the Liberal agenda in force.

I wish Obama well. I just hope he doesn't follow his Liberal leanings too far and to the detriment of us all. Our nation, its freedoms, its free enterprise system, its strong military, and the respect---however grudging at times---of the World are all important. We must never lose sight of this.

Why I Support John McCain Part One

2008-10-26T16:35:00.000-04:00

Here it is! Having been asked by a friend [now so far away] to explain why I'm supporting John McCain and Sarah Palin, I've provided this answer. [Please read this through before you attack me.]

Please note the following: I'm a college graduate having studied economics, statistics, and accounting. I'm a CPA with experience in numerous industries, especially small businesses. I've even worked in manufacturing as Controller. I was a Supply Officer in the US Navy, having gone through boot camp and Officer's Training. Now, I'm a writer. I've had a lot of business and personnel experience and the ability to see through bullshit.

Military

John McCain graduated from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1958. As a flyer, he survived the devastating fire on the USS Forrestal in 1967. Later that year he was shot down over Hanoi, breaking bones when he landed in a lake. The North Vietnamese [NV] promptly treated his breaks poorly and sent him to the Hanoi Hilton. Later he went to a political prison where they broke more of his bones and tortured him trying to get military secrets from him. He didn't give anything more than the names of a football team's front line, so they gave him more torture.

In 1968, his father was given command of the US forces in and around Vietnam, so the NV offered him an early release as a propaganda move. He refused. He was further tortured. According to the Military Code of Conduct, prisoners should be released in order of capture, so he painfully saw it through to the end his POW prison term for his comrades. He was finally released in 1973.

After rehabilitation, he commanded a squadron out of Florida, and he retired as a Naval Captain in 1981. He was in prison at the same time I was in the Navy. I call my time 'endurance' because, although a Lieutenant, I thought I had been going through misery with necessary military restrictions in job and personal life. Little did I understand what misery really was. John McCain went through the real deal of misery and survived and succeeded. There's no need for anymore testing.

His actions putting Country first are hard---if not impossible---to top.

John McCain has never shirked from admitting his mistakes, taking the heat, and going on. He blamed himself for his failed first marriage, and he took the heat for his connection to the 'Keating Five' scandal. He was fully exonerated of any wrong doing for the latter---as repeated by Democrat counsel Bob Bennett---and only given the equivalent of 'naughty! naughty! He has nothing to be ashamed of there or anywhere.

Barack Obama has no military or command experience. [Heading his own campaign committee over the years is hardly valuable experience.] Nor has he ever been tested to prove his mettle at anything! I firmly believe that in the same situation that McCain faced, Obama would have capitulated early and begged for his release.

Further, Obama will not tell his whole history or take responsibility for his own actions. His past is shady with ongoing relationships with terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn, radical Father Phleger, and convicted Tony Rezco. He spent 20 years attending a church and listening to his mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright spout his racist and anti American venom. Twenty years? And he only repudiated his latter relationship recently when it became politically expedient?

Washington

In 1977, while still in the Navy, McCain was given the position of Naval liaison to the Senate. In 1981, after retirement, McCain moved to Arizona with his family. In 1982, McCain ran for and was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he served two terms getting his political act in gear. He did not jump-start his campaign in the home of two terrorists.

At one point during his campaign, many questioners derided him as a 'carpetbagger' to Arizona. His answer to one of these chargers at a candidates' forum was swift and to the point.

'Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the First District of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi.'

I like that answer and what it tells me about the man.

In 1986, he was elected to the Senate. All his re-elections came with 60% or more of the votes. As noted above, he was involved on the peripheral of the 'Keating Five' scandal, ultimately being CLEARED OF ALL WRONGDOING, though you'd never know it by the Obama campaign claims.

Among his later Senate accomplishments were bills to: announce to OPEC, oil produces, and oil speculators, that the US will be energy independent in the near future; a summer federal gas tax holiday from Memorial Day to Labor Day; move to repeal the 54 cent per gallon tax on imported sugar-based ethanol, thus reducing the need for corn and reducing food costs; roll back corn-based ethanol mandates to reduce the cost of food. Most of these and others died in the Democrat-run Senate. But his votes on conservative legislation were on target.

On the other hand, Obama's Senate record is certainly unimpressive. In his 143 days of actual service as a Senator, he sponsored or co-sponsored bills: to honor Pierre Julian [chemist], Rosa Parks [black], sickle cell research, Irene Sendler [albeit a strong social worker during the holocaust], Gilbert Patterson [black bishop], Carl Stokes [black mayor of Cleveland]; resolution for no use of force in Iran; designate National Learning Day and a Disability Pride Day; to suspend the duty on gibberillic acid---a potent plant hormone [found in most plants] that is normally used to promote early flowering and plant germination; to suspend duty on triphenyltin hydroxide---a substance used to control potato blight etc.; suspend duty on sebacic acid---a derivative of castor oil used in candle making; suspend duty on bromoxynil octonoate---toxic, imported from China, and I can't find anyplace willing to identify it's use; suspend the duty for RSD 1235---a drug under current study; suspend duty on N6 Benzyladenine, MCPB acid, MCPB sodium salt, 2-Methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacitic, metsulfluron-methyl, dichlorprop-p acid, and dichlorprop-p demethlyamine salt.

None of these sponsored bills made it into law.

I emphasize 143 days, because he was hardly ensconced at his Senate desk before he started running for President. Obama does this regularly. He goes for one position, then when in the new position he spends his time seeking a higher office. Do over 130 votes 'present' tell you about the decision-making ability of the candidate? And you can't deal with Iran, Russia, or Pakistan with a 'present' vote. And if he succeeds in his run for President, what job will he immediately seek after? Will he appoint himself to the Supreme Court? How about Secretary General of the UN. Obama certainly believes he has international appeal. Pope? A Demi-God? Zeus, call your office.

Tell me Rich, friends, have you ever come across a Presidential candidate with less experience or more socialist leanings or one who has little other than oratory to speak for him? [And those socialists like Eugene Debs never had a chance of winning an election.]

As a matter of fact, Obama sponsored a bill to congratulate the Chicago White Sox for the 2005 World Series victory, and he couldn't even get that through the process to the President.

When the economy was sending warning signals, McCain was in the forefront, along with the administration, in trying to raise the alarm to Congress and take action to correct the process and forestall problems. All attempts were rebuffed by Democrats Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters and even Obama himself---top recipients of campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie.

When the dam broke, McCain suspended his campaign and returned to Washington to work with Republicans on getting an emergency bill passed. Obama stayed on his campaign trail, making snide remarks from afar. They both signed on to the bill, something I would not have. So there's no difference there, except that McCain signed onto an emergency bill, and Obama signed on to a socialist leaning bill. It's all in the mind, n'est pas? At least McCain and the Republicans prevented Congress from sending millions to Acorn as part of the Democrats' proposed bill.

Campaign

McCain has stuck to his promise to accept taxpayer money for the campaign. Obama reneged on his written promise and declined taxpayer money, thus being able to raise some $600 million dollars [I admit he's a great orator, especially when you understand that he doesn't give any details when he talks] in an attempt to seal the Presidency by overwhelming his opponent. Can you imagine that? Huge sums to socialize the Country? How much of that is foreign or duplicate, no one will tell. And such an amount is only the tip of the iceberg [among billionaires] of efforts to fund the complete socializing of the Country---bit by bit.

John McCain has spent four years in the US House of Representatives and 22 years in the US Senate. He has worked hard all these years for the people he represented, and he was not called a 'maverick' for nothing as he bucked the Republicans many times. His attitude has always been Country first. He sponsored or cosponsored numerous bills making it past the President's signature, lately including the federal partial birth abortion ban, more penalties for purveyors of obscene and indecent broadcasts; to enhance the FTC enforcement in re cyber spam, spyware, and fraud; and other bi-partisan bills/laws.

McCain has potential programs and ideas that I like: his tax credit for individual medical policies so people can travel and change jobs without changing policies; his desire to reduce the estate tax rate to 15% with a $10 million exemption; his desire to work on increasing World markets with efforts to reduce trade barriers, multilaterally, bilaterally, and regional; to enforce existing global trading rules; he wants continued and increased tax credits for wind, solar, and hydro power; he'd like to offer a $300 million dollar prize [it has to be big enough to warrant large research expenditures and be an incentive] for new battery technology for hybrid vehicles; green building and refitting US Government buildings throughout the World.

He wants to keep the maximum tax rate at 35%; a 15% tax rate for dividends and capital gains; a phasing out of the alternative minimum tax; to reduce the corporate tax rate of 35% to 25%. Our current corporate tax is the second highest in the World, thus leading to corporate shenanigans and reduced World presence; he wants more first year expensing of equipment and investment in technology; he wants a tax credit of 10% of labor costs for R & D. The US needs more research and development to better compete in the modern World.

These things help increase business opportunities and employment. The economy is best fueled by individual success. The American Dream. It is not served well with wealth distribution and high taxes on productivity.

As a small business owner [professional practice] I spent years working with average and wealthy people and businesses dealing with their accounting, investment, payroll and income tax returns, loans and varied business problems. We had to work with the complicated IRS code. I understand how these people will be affected or hurt by the various policies of McCain or Obama. None of my over 500 clients would want this 'socialism.' And I'm just one professional.

And I wish that you Liberals would get off the tired old mantra of Republican tax cuts for the rich. When the Republicans offer tax cuts, they offer them to all taxpayers. The top five percent of earners in the US already pay most of the taxes collected. So naturally, according to simple arithmetic, more of a tax cut goes to the person paying most of the taxes.

The second part of this essay is directly below in another blog post. I had to enter it first so the continuity of the essay wouldn't be damaged.

Why I Support John McCain Part Two

2008-10-26T15:44:00.001-04:00

I'm particularly worried about this constant Obama wish to 'spread the wealth' by taking from one group to give it to another. Socialism and class warfare is un-American. He should be taken to the woodshed.

'Democracy is the road to socialism.' This quote would easily fit into Obama's view of the Country and what he and his Democrat cohorts want to accomplish in it: an increased 'nanny state', government run and heavily regulated businesses [that stifle growth], more handouts for those who don't work, loss of free speech on radio, loss of the secret ballot in union votes, and so forth ad infinitum.

'From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.' This quote fits Obama's 'spread the wealth' philosophy' along with his idea of a tax cut for 95% of Americans---including the 40% of Americans who don't pay taxes. Why would anyone want to send government checks to one group of people who don't contribute to the tax base, taking it from another group who contribute the most? Tax cuts should be assigned to those who actually pay tax. And success should come to those who work hard and earn it.

'The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.' Change 'socialism' to 'democrat-ism' [only a tiny difference] and that's what Obama and the Democrats want for this Country. Free speech disappears from talk radio; loss of secret ballots in union votes; sending money to Acorn to spread the vote to dead people, Disney characters, those who want to vote in two different states, and those who simply want to vote many times. The opposition will be vilified for any reason [something currently happening.] The defense budget will be cut by a quarter [per Barney Frank]. And any Democrats responsible in part for the current economic mess [notably Chris Dodd and Barney Frank] won't be investigated or punished for their parts.

These are all quotes from the works of Karl Marx. I hope you think about them.

Now, John McCain will do none of these in particular or promote any of these practices by acquiescence. He has strength of character and a firm belief in Country first. We can be sure that his term in office will shake up the 'good old boys' and root out corruption and greed. And he won't allow our military budget to be cut by a quarter---or anything for that matter. Nor will he permit cuts in Border Control or Homeland Security. These are all too important in protecting our freedoms and way of life.

McCain wants to leave Iraq and Afghanistan in victory with positive support for the troops; he wants to start paying off the deficit; he'll provide a one year spending freeze of the budget until we catch our collective breath; he'll knock down programs not working.

McCain wants to reform social security before it collapses. Is this another warning that will be rebuffed by Democrats in Congress? He'll investigate and punish those responsible for the collapse of our markets, to include Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, other Congressman, Senators, and highly paid executives former and present of the collapsed companies. Does anyone naively expect an Obama administration to investigate and punish Chris Dodd and Barney Frank and other Democrats involved with the crisis?

I think Social Security programs deserve and demand a carefully considered reformation. If you think the current financial crisis is huge, wait until Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid fail. [Personally, if I'm still around---well, I don't want to see this happen.]

McCain wants to reform Medicare and Medicaid, increase accountability, and reduce payments for preventable medical errors and mismanagement, with a zero tolerance toward fraud. He wants medical liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits that increase the cost of health care [and reduce the billable hours of trial lawyers.]

What he won't promote is the type of failed socialized medicine seen in Canada, England and other Countries. They don't work. Ask the people from those Countries, especially those who come to the US for their care.

McCain wants to increase domestic exploration for oil and gas, even closely offshore. Sarah Palin is still working on him about ANWR; he wants to encourage the development of clean coal. He wants to more quickly situate and build at least 45 nuclear plants, with a goal of 100. These are absolutely necessary in the American effort to achieve energy independence.

With what McCain wants to do, I expect he can meet his promise of a balanced budget within four years. These crazy, socialistic bailouts are not within the regular budget--nor are War expenditures. By the way, I'm very uncomfortable with government ownership or investment in free market companies. Our country grew strong and financially successful through the free market system, and I think the free market system should be protecting us now. Though I must admit, there's been a lot of fraud and greed out there in these past years, I think oversight should be swift and effective but short in duration. [Though I do worry about any swift and effective parts if Congress is involved.] The free market system will rebound and grow stronger if we let it.

Wall Street has been a national bugaboo for decades, and I think the free market will make the needed corrections---all in the activities for profits as usual. Trading practices have to be reformed. Remember, where companies fail, there's usually another one to step into the void. As in 1987, this current crisis will be an opportunity for the people, media, and government to work together to cut out the fraudulent executives and companies and force restructuring and reformation in the large companies.

But, don't take my word about it. McCain's economic policies have been supported by numerous economists: Paul Evans, Ohio State University; E Philip Howry, University of Michigan; George Schultz, Hoover Institute; Michael Porter, Harvard Business School; Michael Boskin, Stanford University; Barry Poulson, University of Colorado; and many others. He also has the support of many of our former Secretaries of State and over 60% of the current military. Ask Drs Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell. These black economists have been supportive of John McCain all through the campaign.

Remember the NY Times and its recent hit pieces on McCain and Palin? This is what happened in January of 2008, when the paper endorsed McCain in the primaries.

'...Senator John McCain of Arizona is the only Republican who promises to end the George Bush style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe. With a record of working across the aisle to develop sound bipartisan legislation, he would offer a choice to a broader range of Americans than the rest of the Republican field...

...We have shuddered at Mr. McCain's occasional, tactical pander to the right because he has demonstrated that he has the character to stand on principle. He was an early advocate for battling global warming and risked his presidential bid to uphold fundamental American values in the immigration debate. A genuine war hero among Republicans who proclaim their zeal to be commander in chief, Mr. McCain argues passionately that a country's treatment of prisoners in the worst of times says a great deal about its character...

...In 2006, however, Mr. McCain stood up for the humane treatment of prisoners and for a ban on torture. We said then that he was being conned by Mr. Bush, who had no intention of following the rules. But Mr. McCain took a stand, just as he did in recognizing the threat of global warming early. He has been a staunch advocate of campaign finance reform, working with Senator Russ Feingold, among the most liberal of Democrats, on groundbreaking legislation, just as he worked with Senator Edward Kennedy on immigration reform...

...That doesn't make him a moderate, but it makes him the best choice for the party's presidential nomination...'

Of course, the NY Times---which is posting bigger losses every quarter---changed its tune in October 2008, and it endorsed the socialist-leaning Obama. [Is the paper looking for a handout too?] Add to this all the 'Republican' hit and hate pieces it has published recently as well. Disgusting!

Going on, John McCain wants to appoint a National Commission on Workplace Flexibility and Choice. This would involve bipartisan leaders representing small and large businesses, labor, and academics. This commission will report to the President on how modernizing our nation's labor laws and training programs to help workers better balance the demands and requirements of job and family.

He wants to modernize labor laws to allow for more flexible scheduling arrangements; he wants to insure labor laws don't interfere with those who work at home; he wants to promote more teleworking to reduce commuting congestion; as noted above, he wants to promote more portable healthcare; he wants more worker choice in retirement plans and job training.

On the other hand again, Barack Obama has no military experience as noted above. He spent his early years in Indonesia in Catholic and Muslim schools. [He had to be a citizen of Indonesia for that.] Such was arranged by stepdad Soeruto.

He has failed to supply a signed and certified birth certificate to prove his date of birth and location. [The document on his website is not a birth certificate, nor is it signed or sealed.] There are valid arguments that he was born in Kenya, and his mother did not pass the US citizenship test. He claims that his ailing grandmother in Hawaii is his last living relative, yet he ignores his paternal grandmother [who claims she was there in Kenya when he was born], half brother, and half sister in Kenya, all living below the poverty level.

He won't release his college transcripts, it is said, because they would indicate his foreign birth and citizenship for his financial help during law school, especially.

These are all legitimate questions for someone seeking the highest office in the Country.

According to an October 1996 page from the New Party [a now defunct, leftist alternative; self described as socialist democratic] ---it was involved with Acorn, which Obama later represented in court for one of its actions to force banks to give out bad loans [also training a number of leaders---in what it isn't clear], there were successful elections in the year.

'...Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on Election Day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary)...'

We know when and where John McCain was born. His was [and is] a military family, and he was born where his father was stationed. He attended the US Naval Academy, and we have records of all that.

Whatever happened to honest, political openness?

All in all, I'm supporting John McCain for his belief in free markets, his honesty with the American people, his support of the US citizen's freedom, and the Constitution. I don't agree with everything he does, but then if I did than he would be me---and I don't want to be President.

Barack Obama is a believer in socialism, as his past history and present proposals indicate. He and a Democrat majority in Congress would run socialist roughshod over the American citizen, the Constitution, and our free market system. They will reduce our freedoms [consider the Union non-secret 'votes' and the un 'fairness' doctrine trying to get more Liberal voices on the airwaves---even though it's been proven that nobody wants to listen to them], raise our taxes [there's at least a $trillion dollars of spending to finance], and reduce the opportunities for businesses in the US.

Doesn't this ring a warning bell for you? You must know and understand these things.

As to the Vice Presidential portion of the ticket, we have proven facts and understanding of both candidates. Governor Sarah Palin is a proven executive who dealt with corruption and reform of her own state party, negotiated difficult gas leases and pipe-lines to the lower forty-eight, is well spoken, has conservative family values, opposes abortion and gay marriages, and has policies that are compatible with those of John McCain---except drilling in ANWR, which I believe she'll successfully negotiate with him. She is well spoken, intelligent, and a shrewd politician. She has had successful executive experience as a mayor and Governor of the Country's largest state. Some may say that being a mayor of a small city or governor of a low-population state doesn't mean much. But remember, Obama and Biden don't even have that much experience necessary for an executive position in the government.

Obama served as a community organizer in an area of Illinois known for corruption. In his capacity as organizer, he was setting the wheels of radical agitation in motion. He worked with Acorn is putting pressure on banks to make sub-prime loans. And he trained the Acorn workers---to do what? Phony up registrations and votes for the Democrats?

And yes, Palin did waver a little with her first interviews, but she was still new to the National scene. Check her out now. I suggest you doubters listen more closely to her speeches, especially those on policy. She's nowhere near the idiot the Obama supporters are trying to make her out to be, and despite the continued efforts of the press to 'sandbag' here with erroneous quotes and 'facts' during interviews.

On the other side we have Joe Biden. This is the well known gaffe-a-minute, foot-in-the-mouth good old Joe. His record in foreign affairs is filled with mistakes and wrong sides of reality. His Botox and hair plugs are ignored, but Sarah Palin's clothing [purchased by the RNC for her to borrow only since she came down to the lower forty-eight rather quickly] is played up as a scandal. He's a laugh a minute.

The media fears that Sarah Palin will be a heartbeat away from the Presidency [a good spot for her, by the way], but they don't fear the alarming specter of Joe Biden. Again, Palin has the only executive experience among the four candidates, having done things that Obama and Biden could only dream about.

The media has pounded on Sarah Palin while giving Joe Biden a pretty free ride. We've been inundated with stories on her daughter's pregnancy [no one's business], claims that her son Trig really belonged to her daughter [ridiculous], claims that she was secessionist [also ridiculous], claims that she tried to fire a trooper because of a nasty divorce with her sister [simply not true, although it should have been, considering how that trooper was acting] ; claims that she supported Pat Buchanan [she wore a pin as mayor of the little city he was visiting while it was happening]; and other inanities.

And Joe? Oh, we're told about his long term in the Senate [36 years; hardly a change for the ticket], but we're not told about how Liberal he is [I consider modern Liberals to be a heartbeat away from Socialist] or how he's been on the wrong side of numerous foreign policy decisions and votes. We're not told of all the gaffes he's spoken, though when he does on the campaign trail he illuminates the stupidity of him and unpreparedness of Obama. Can you imagine Joe the Gaffe representing the US to foreign power brokers? Who can tell what he'd say?

So, is there any choice other than John McCain and Sarah Palin? I think not. I believe they will bring to Washington freshness and their positive experiences and abilities to see this Country through difficult times, maintain an honorable military, and insure our freedoms.

The mainstream media is in the tank for Obama. No question about it. All their Obama interviews are complete with softball questions, never questioning anything 'detrimental' about the anointed one. Just listen to Keith Olbermann on MSNBC if you have a strong stomach. Ask a candidate a tough question and your station/channel will be stricken from the 'Friends of Obama' list [check out You Tube], and any future interviews scheduled won't happen.

Do I adore John McCain or Sarah Palin? Of course not. But I do support them.

And the opposition? The supporters of Obama are disgustingly trying to 'deify' him and carry on a religious campaign to lead the 'Obamessiah' and the Liberal/Socialists into power over the average Americans. Obama does nothing to dissuade such efforts. In fact he's preparing in Chicago for a huge election party. He probably has Greek columns again.

But don't cross the 'one!' Even a simple plumber can't ask the 'anointed one' a question without backlash. Obama supporters have tried to find all sorts of dirt on this poor man, just because he elicited an answer from Obama that confirmed his socialism.

So, I was asked, and I answered. A little lengthy perhaps, but I wanted to get a lot into it. Our Country is facing a difficult time, and I'm very concerned about potentials. I fear the Democrat/Liberal/Socialist takeover of Congress and the Presidency. The inmates will be running the institution as it were, and we'll all suffer from it. And we'll all suffer from it because these inmates are not anxious to protect freedom and free markets.

We are living in troubled times. If it isn't the current financial crisis [due in part to Democrat recalcitrance], then it's the coming disaster about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. That disaster was set in motion by both parties over the years. When it hits, we'll be in much more shit than we are now. Only John McCain wants Congress to sit with his leadership to correct the problems before they hatch. Barack Obama and the Democrats are content to continue raising taxes and promote more governmental control.

Only John McCain can be trusted to oversee the Country, push for needed laws and cuts in programs, and appoint Supreme Court Justices who will actually base their decisions on the Constitution instead of legislating from the bench. And if it were necessary for Sarah Palin to become President, I'm perfectly happy with her there.

And now you know much about why I'm supporting John McCain.

Random Thoughts Late October

2008-10-21T15:25:00.003-04:00

Has anyone really considered why Obama is so popular in Europe? Let me offer a few items for consideration.

Europe has for years been traveling down the socialist trail, to it's own detriment and suffering. Many of the European countries simply can't rehabilitate themselves anymore. Their citizens are too accustomed to the nanny states, even though the taxes to pay for them are increasingly sending these same citizens to the poorhouse, thus increasing the calls for more nanny statism. The never-ending vicious circle.

So naturally, these countries will favor Obama because he'd try to lead the US down the slippery slope of socialism. This will give the European leaders 'chills and tingling up their legs' because they won't feel so left out with America. With this scenario, all Western countries can go downhill together.

Another reason for the warm reception is that socialism will be expected to drain the US of much World prestige, perhaps enough to allow the European leaders to regain some World leadership positions. They are anxious to improve on the World stage despite their countries' bungling of their economies and military prowess. Remember the British, French, German and Austro-Hungarian Empires of the past? Such thoughts are still within the European hearts.

The cream will no longer rise to the top because America will no longer have any cream. Socialism stifles economic progress, inventiveness and material success for a country's citizens. Socialism destroys all that is great in America. It destroys the vital parts of our society that created the strength of America in the first place. I, for one, am not ready to allow a 'change' to a socialistic society to reign for my children and their children. A future little Topaz probably won't appreciate it.

'Tax breaks for 95% of Americans' is not only wrong---almost half of us pay little or no income tax---but the concept entails giving money to those who pay no taxes [funded by those who do.] As Obama says 'spread the wealth around.' And that is a major tenet to the practice of socialism.

Thank goodness Europeans can't vote in our elections. We only allow dead goldfish, dead people, Mickey Mouse, and the Dallas Cowboys [wrong state] to register and vote Democrat. Joe the Plumber is Republican.
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Now, I'm sure most of us know Sheryl Crowe, even if we haven't listened to her music. [I tried to, but I couldn't keep my mind off the probable dirty guitar strings.] These quotes surfaced a while ago, but they remain 'fresh' in one's mind.

Newsbusters [noted the arrival of Sheryl Crowe and {Inconvenient Truth producer} Laurie David to the noisy environmental train---electric of course; maybe made by Lionel.]

'Here is [Sheryl] Crow’s “easy way” to be part of the solution to anthropogenic global warming:

"Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating. One of my favorites is in the area of forest conservation which we heavily rely on for oxygen. I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required. When presenting this idea to my younger brother, who's judgment I trust implicitly, he proposed taking it one step further. I believe his quote was, "how bout just washing the one square out."

[Don't snicker and grimace in disgust just yet. Sheryl went on:]

"I also like the idea of not using paper napkins, which happen to be made from virgin wood and represent the height of wastefulness. I have designed a clothing line that has what's called a "dining sleeve." The sleeve is detachable and can be replaced with another "dining sleeve," after usage. The design will offer the "diner" the convenience of wiping his mouth on his sleeve rather than throwing out yet another barely used paper product. I think this idea could also translate quite well to those suffering with an annoying head cold."

Newsbusters again: 'I’d like to say she was kidding, but based on other global warming “solutions,” it is hard to tell. Wacky ideas abound. A man-made volcano shooting sulfur into the air, giant 'space umbrellas' and even getting rid of toilets so we can compost our own waste in a box underneath the sink.'
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[Amen]
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According to Simon Romero, Michael Slackman and Clifford J Levy:
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'President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela used it to jump-start a socialist-inspired revolution in his country and to back a cadre of like-minded leaders in Latin America who were intent on eroding once-dominant American influence.

Iran extended its influence across the Middle East, promoted itself as the leader of the Islamic world and used its petrodollars to help defy the West's efforts to block its nuclear program.

Russia, which suffered a humiliating economic collapse in the 1990s after the fall of communism, recaptured some of its former standing in the world. It began rebuilding its military, wrested control of oil and gas pipelines and pushed back against Western encroachment in the former Soviet empire.'
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And yet, the Liberals still create roadblocks and nay-saying against more drilling and other needed energy resource use to wean us off these oil hungry barons of the World. They claim that America has only 3% of the World's oil reserves, so more drilling won't do anything. What they fail to say is that more oil and natural gas than in all the Arab States and Venezuela is off the American coast and in that small part of Alaska's ANWR that we more sensible Americans want to use. [and not part of that crowed 3%]

The Alaska Pipeline has harmed NO wildlife or environment. Neither will oil drilling and removal from a tiny part of the ANWR part of Alaska. We are grown-ups you know. We have fine technology in these sorts of things.

Furthermore, if the environmentalists and Liberals would stop blocking the construction and use of coal and nuclear plants and gasoline refineries, we'd have more than enough energy production and availability to become energy independent and off the enemy nipples! With energy independence, these international oil barons will no longer have the funds or abilities to strut around messing things up for the rest of us.

No one has ever died from radiation from a nuclear power plant in the US. And consider the Navy where thousands have served on nuclear vessels with no death either.

I continue to be amazed at why Liberals fight these energy resource actualities and want to join the Obama bandwagon of lofty rhetoric with no substance. When asked, none of you knows anything substantial about him. His past is shady and he hides it. He voted 'present' in the Illinois Senate so many times that one has to wonder why he wanted the job in the first place. Oh wait, I know! He didn't want much of a record for others to use against him as he aspired to the next level, the US Senate where he's accomplished nothing of note: no real bills, no leadership, nothing!---except, I suppose, running for the Presidency.

Actually, he's now announced for the Phillies and Rays in the World Series. He can't even make a decision there.

And yes, you believers of the appointed one, expect change in Washington. As some New Yorkers say: 'fugeddaboutit.' All you'd see is more socialism 'spreading the wealth of those who earn it to those who want it' from the emboldened Democrats, and more rhetoric blaming George Bush for his [Obama's] every mistake. But, hey, Obama has gained a new job. Now he must position himself for something higher. He probably thinks that Secretary General of the UN is a higher position. Then he can become 'Big Brother' and rule the socialist World. Then what? Pope? Demigod? Zeus! Call your office!

And Joe Biden is part of 'change'? Ha! Thirty six years of gumming up the works in Washington is hardly an impressive record, especially to promote 'change.' And his bumbling speech pattern with all the half truths and surprisingly naive statements would make him a subject of mockery throughout the World---not just Washington.

No folks. There's no positive change. Only misery for we citizens who work for a living to better our lives. Obama wants to take that and spread it around to others. What's so pathetic is that even with the truth apparent and available, many of you lemmings will still follow 'the one' over the cliff.
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Another thought on Obama from Ken Blackwell, a columnist from Townhall.

'Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton.

Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost.

Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he’s not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant.'
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I predict that that is the only way Obama can win a sash as Mr [un?]United States. I also predict that Susan Sarandon---who promised '..if John McCain gets elected, she will move to Italy or Canada...'---will not move as promised. She and husband Tim Robbins will continue their attempts to increase the Liberalism of Hollywood. Oh, it's so nice to be outspoken about a disastrous political system when you have a few million in the bank backing your play, isn't it?

Electric Re-Tooling

2008-10-17T15:16:00.003-04:00

On October 1, 2008, I posted an essay entitled 'Will They Sing the B'rack Electric?', an obvious play on 'I Sing the Body Electric, the title of an 1855 poem by Walt Whitman; the title of a short story by Ray Bradbury and a 1962 Twilight Zone episode; the title of Bradbury's later [1969] book of short stories; and the title of the 1972 musical album by the Weather Report---the latter no relation to Obama friend Bill Ayer's Weather Underground group of terrorists.

Within this essay were references to the books of George Orwell, specifically the 1945 'Animal Farm' and the 1949 '1984.' The links below go to Wikipedia articles on the two books.

Animal Farm

1984

These are far better summaries of the books than I can give in a short essay.

While reading these, you might want to consider some of the reality of Barack Obama as noted below, and I'd like to quote a few lines from the Encyclopedia entry as a start:

'"Orwellian" can also refer to governmental propagandizing by the misnaming of things; hence the "Ministry of Peace" in the novel actually deals with war and the "Ministry of Love" actually tortures people. Since the novel's publication "Orwellian" has in fact become somewhat of a catch-all for any kind of governmental overreach or dishonesty and therefore has multiple meanings and applications. The phrase Big Brother is Watching You specifically connotes pervasive, invasive surveillance but can also refer to attempts to over-regulate or legislate societal behaviour.'
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From Family Security Matters: 'And, after he [Obama] was elected to the U.S. Senate, his wife, Michelle, told a reporter, "Barack is not a politician first and foremost. He's a community activist exploring the viability of politics to make change." Recalling her remark in 2005, Obama wrote, "I take that observation as a compliment."'
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Ken Blackwell: '...Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost.

Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he’s not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant...'
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Linda Chavez: 'Last fall, Sen. Obama stirred a similar controversy when he talked about his decision to quit wearing a flag lapel pin that he, like many members of Congress and others, had worn since the Sept. 11 attacks. He said that the pins had become "a substitute for … true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security." He added, "I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest. Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism."

It is as if both Obamas are suggesting that America is somehow lacking, unless a President Obama can change it. It is a theme that seems to resonate with liberals: America could be a great nation -- if only liberals were in charge.

[Since that time, Obama has been wearing the lapel flag.]
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W Thomas Smith Jr: '...Obama did, however, receive Muslim training as a boy. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was a Muslim, as was Obama Jr.'s stepfather, Lolo Soetoro. And we are now discovering, Junior offered direct political support to at least one African leader, Raila Odinga, with ties to radical Islam as recent as seven months ago...'
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'...I don't want to punish your success...'
'...spread the wealth...'
'...good for everybody...'

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. - Chinese proverb

Battle Hymn of Patriotism

2008-10-06T17:27:00.000-04:00

What is patriotism today?

According to USA Today back in July: 'six in 10 of those surveyed in a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll say sporting an American flag pin indicates that a person is patriotic...Barack Obama stopped regularly wearing a flag pin last fall. He said it had become a substitute for "real patriotism"...[Obama] began to wear one more often again this spring...Republican John McCain, a Vietnam War hero, says he occasionally wears the red-white-and-blue on his lapel —de rigueur for many politicians since the 9/11 attacks — because "I'm proud of the American flag."'

So, how can we feel and express patriotism?

In that same poll, it was determined that 80% of those polled felt that supporting US foreign policy was patriotic. 60% also thought that disagreeing with US policy is patriotic.

I think most of us can agree with the latter figures. But speaking for many, I think that disagreeing with US foreign policy is one thing, actively trying to thwart it is another. And those who cater to the adversary by speech or action are not expressing patriotism. They are expressing anti-american obstructionism, pure and simple.

Is it patriotic to threaten to move to a foreign country if a particular politician loses a race? And then reneging on the promise? Personally, those Hollywood 'stars' who threaten this would probably be well gone.

Is it patriotic to countenance groups of youths singing your praises and marching around before an election? Why do some politicians insist on using juveniles who can't even vote or---according to the criminal courts---form a rational opinion? Are we going back to the 1930s?

Is it patriotic to break the law and wear partisan political symbols and shirts to school where the students cannot form a proper opinion and vote? Is it patriotism? Or is it anti-American to flout and break laws designed to protect the youth?

Again, according to USA Today: 'In the poll, taken June 15-19, serving in the U.S. military and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance were seen by a majority of Americans as saying "a great deal" about a person's patriotism.'

There are many politicians who won't profess faith in the military or recite the pledge of allegiance. In the next 'townhall debate', perhaps someone should ask both Presidential contenders to recite the pledge of allegiance. I would expect John McCain to say it fervently. If Barack Obama doesn't try to 'snake oil' his way out of it, he'd probably have to stumble through it.

And since the Liberals have been successfully deleting references to God in the schools of our Country, how do you teach anything historical to our children? If you leave out religion, you have no history to discuss. Abe Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson would be rolling over in their graves every time a modern Liberal speaks.

So, it's refreshing to find a public school, non-partisan musical performance that thwarts these anti-religious efforts and sings easily and thrillingly. Please follow the link below to discover a thrilling and patriotic rendition of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

http://www.greatdanepromilitary.com/Battle%20Hymn/index.htm

Strong Liberals from Faulty Acorns Grow

2008-10-03T14:54:00.000-04:00

If you think I'm rather harsh with the Democrats/Liberals, you're right I am. But I'm only telling the truth that the main stream media skips over. The media spends most of it's time bashing John McCain, Sarah Palin, George Bush and the Republicans, fairly or unfairly makes no difference to them. They'll jump at anything that promotes Barack Obama or the Democrats and debases the Republicans of any stripe.

Never mind the teachers, I'm waiting for the press corps to show up on camera in their blue t-shirts.
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According to USA Today: 'British Bank Barclays would buy Lehman for $15 a share [it's market price was near $20]' On it's face that sounds like a good investment.

At the same time, the BBC was reporting that 'Bradford and Bingley has become the second British bank, after Northern Rock, to be rescued by the government - this time in partnership with the Spanish bank Santander.' And today I read that the British public is lining up to deposit money in Northern Rock since it's been taken over by the government and all the deposits are guaranteed.

Does anyone besides me wonder why Barclays is investing in America instead of it's own Country? Maybe we don't need this huge bailout Congress is foisting on us.
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An editorial in USA Today is another hit job, but some of it should be disturbing to the writers if they were thinking clearly---which they are not.

'The reality is, as governor of Alaska for fewer than two years, and as a small-town mayor before that, Palin has had little exposure to the extraordinarily complex issues a president faces. Even with her quick-study skills, she couldn't possibly come up to speed in such a brief period on the array of economic, foreign policy and national security challenges facing the next administration.'

How does that stack up in the minds of the Liberal writers with Barack Obama, a man who was---a failure according to his own words---a community organizer with Acorn [an organization he helped lead into the future---but later is in serious trouble in fourteen states for voter fraud among other things]; a state senator where he could only bring himself to vote present [read: couldn't make a decision] over 130 times; has only spent a couple of years in the US Senate where he has been continually running for President [some people may vote for him in disgust just to get it over with]. He was in Washington at his job only about 143 days.

He's always running for something [think back to the 'present' votes; he doesn't want to commit to anything that can be used against him in the next election], but he never stays where he is long enough to accomplish substantive things or learn anything from the experience to help his growth. Obama claims he has executive experience from running his campaign. Imagaine that! Oh! Shades of George Orwell.
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Another story from USA Today: 'Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., raised eyebrows at a press conference Wednesday when he said a member of his party caucus had talked about a major insurance company being on the verge of bankruptcy. At the time, Reid referred to the company as 'one with a name that everyone knows.''

The next day, Reid backtracked on his scare tactic: 'Today, however, Reid's office sought to clarify the comment. His spokesman, Jim Manley, said Reid 'is not personally aware' of any particular company being in trouble and has 'no special knowledge' on the topic. Reid, the spokesman said, meant to refer in general terms about the financial sector and 'regrets any confusion his comments may have caused.''

So what else is new, Senator?
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Will They Sing the B'rack Electric?

2008-10-01T21:56:00.001-04:00

Does anyone see disturbing parallels in this so-called 'Age of Obama'? [Oh sorry, I know that's the name of the book to be published on election day by the moderator of the Vice Presidential debate.] We can best formulate our answers after reading George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' and '1984.' I guarantee you'll see what I mean with respect to Barack Obama. Get the books and read them. They may be the most important books in this election cycle.

[Hope! Change! Obama our Saviour!]

With his political scenario, the rules of life will change, the populace will work hard, and Mr Obama will tell us what to do and how to do it. Obama has already been telling interviewers that he wants to take money from the 'rich' earning $250 G a year and give it to the poor. But, according to him, that's not socialism, that's just a nice thing the 'rich' person will want to do. [Yes, I heard him say this!]

[Pay high taxes as a factor of patriotism!]

When he's campaigning, the kool-aid crowd chants and serenades him as he speaks---notably in generalities, just enough to get the crowd active. He has the 'Obama Youth' as exemplified by his rush to have Ohio students registering and voting on the same day. Hmmm. Wasn't there someone else with a 'Youth' movement?

Now, Obama has children singing his campaign slogans. Check out You Tube if you want. These are further examples of his messianic position. And frankly, it's getting scary. Are we electing a President or anointing a Saint? Once again, does an empty suit flap in the wind?

[Something vague we can believe in?]

But why all this hysteria? Obama has never done anything worth noting. He has no experience. He has too many and too deep connections with vocal radicals, law breakers and socialists [To put it mildly.] All he does is fantasize about a mythical hope and change.

[Trust me! I know all the answers!]

His photos and campaign posters [with picture] are almost enshrined in many homes as the families living there gather together and sing hymns to him every evening. They know no other candidate, and they pray before his arrogant pose for the Sainthood ceremony. He is mythical hope personified---and never mind the fact that he wants to run the most powerful Country the World has ever seen---and when he preaches [that's what he does] he wants to sound like your Big Brother and righter of all wrongs.

He has no practical or theoretical experience for this position, but he wants it anyway. Based on his personal history, he'll immediately start looking for another office. Will he appoint himself to the Supreme Court?

This is truly the start of a Big Brother. Will our country be awash with huge photos of Obama as the communist countries are with their leaders? Will our new taxes be akin to confiscation so that he can dole the funds out to the 'poor' people, whether or not they exist in fact as he envisions them, and whether or not they want the government Obama meddling in their lives? Will we all be required to tune in and listen to him when he's pontificating on the television---on pain of friendly caning?

Cameras on every street corner? [Oh, right. That's already being done in Liberal London.] Everybody marrying everybody else? Nationalization [so they don't fail and hurt the little guy] of everything from autoplants to the local bar?

[Take from the rich and give to the poor: Robin O! Robin O! Ridin' through the glen...]

'Everybody is equal---except that some people are more equal than others.'

Don't follow a leader who is actually working for you, follow one with the biggest pack at his beck and call. We are lost in a bad novel! Unfortunately, we're going to have public riots no matter who wins the Presidency.

Read Orwell's books, and then think about Obama again. It's scary.

He's Barack Obama, and I doubt he'd approve of this message.

Gas Pains for the Environment

2008-09-27T21:41:00.001-04:00

Common sense dictates that some of the more important keys to American energy independence are: more oil exploration and drilling; more natural gas exploration and drilling; more nuclear plants; more wind farms and solar panels---but not more bio fuels because diversion of corn and other plant life to the fuel market increases food prices more than is reasonable.

T Boone Pickens---with the concurrence of Aubrey K McClendon---both bigwigs in the Oil and Natural Gas industries---has created a plan for our energy independence. I checked it out on both their websites. Steven Milloy of Junk Science.com has covered the subject of Picken's Plan in detail on Townhall about the Iran claims and several other misrepresentations. I'll take a different tack here.

Pickens states that Compressed Natural Gas [CNG] is the answer to our skyrocketing fuel prices. While it may be part of a solution, it's certainly not the only answer. There are far more compelling choices noted above.

In the words of Pickens:

"Converting just 10% of America’s vehicles to CNG will lower U.S. oil consumption enough to save nearly 50 billion dollars each year. That’s $50 billion less spent on foreign oil. Let Washington put those billions to work as incentives to build and buy CNG vehicles like the rest of the world enjoys.

This can be accomplished in less than 10 years if you have the right leadership.”

Pickens goes on to give us the mathematical reasoning behind his plan.

"According to the Energy Information Agency [EIA], the amount of 'Finished Motor Gasoline' used in 2007 was 9,286 thousand barrels per day.

9,286 thousand barrels/day = 9.286 million barrels/day. This is roughly 10 million barrels/day and 10% of this would be one million barrels/day. (The 9,286 number also appears on the EIA's 'Petroleum Basic Statistics' page.)

1 million barrels/day x $130/barrel* x 365 days/year =
$47.57 billion ("nearly $50 billion")
*$130/barrel as of July 2008."

On the McClendon site is offered:

"America uses a lot of oil. Every day, 85 million barrels of oil are produced around the world. And 21 million of those are used here in the United States.

That's 25% of the world's oil demand. Used by just 4% of the world's population.

Can't we just produce more oil?

World oil production peaked in 2005. Despite growing demand and an unprecedented increase in prices, oil production has fallen over the last three years. Oil is getting more expensive to produce, harder to find and there just isn't enough of it to keep up with demand.

The simple truth is that cheap and easy oil is gone."

And:

"Cheaper: Natural gas is significantly less expensive than gasoline or diesel. In places like Utah and Oklahoma, prices are less than $1 a gallon...

"Incentives For Consumers To Drive CNG Vehicles: "A modest federal incentive is now in place for American consumers to buy CNG-fueled vehicles, and some states and cities add to that amount. It applies to the purchase of the Honda Civic GX, the only CNG vehicle currently made in the U.S.

But additional incentives are needed to help consumers convert their current vehicles from gasoline to CNG.

An additional federal incentive is available on the purchase of a home refueling appliance. It’s basically a compressor unit that is installed to draw on the natural gas pipeline in your home."

Now, let's consider this plan for a moment. My data and calculations just don't jive with those of Pickens in many places. Firstly, he claims how clean and efficient a CNG fueled vehicle would be. We should build or convert enough vehicles to equal 10% of the cars on the road. Fine and dandy, but he doesn't tell you that a CNG vehicle costs about 40% more than a standard car of the same make. Expect conversions of on-the-road cars to be pricey as well. Since supply and demand will regulate the CNG prices, they'll end up to where the gas prices are now. There's no economic reason for making the change to CNG. You'll never get your money back.

And the price of CNG? CNG per gallon [actually shouldn't this be cubic feet?] costs range from [one station at 70 cents] from about $2 to over $4 in California alone. The rest of the Country [impossible to find CNG in the middle states] ranges from about $2.50 to $3.90 per gallon. I saw prices less than $2 in the Tulsa area, but still above $1. And we can't all go to Oklahoma to fill up, can we? But the prices on Pickens' price maps don't have an explanation. Are they for gallons or cubic feet? And what can a car see as miles per gallon [cubic foot.]

Pickens' Plan conveniently leaves out any discussion of miles per gallon in converted vehicles. According to recent data, a CNG fueled car has only half the range of a gasoline vehicle. Of course, Pickens doesn't say that either.

Besides, if 10% of the vehicles around are CNG fueled, do you think the per gallon price will stay the same?

I'd look for these two gentlemen leading the charge towards higher prices as 'fair' in light of the cleanliness. And, they also want you to buy a government-subsidized appliance to tap into your home natural gas supply to fuel your car. Do you really want to play around with your home gas supply? And---wait a minute! What he's really getting at is to increase not only automobiles but the number of homes that use natural gas as well. There it is. This whole plan is a clever ruse to increase his income through increased natural gas sales. And I bet he'll be selling those tapping appliances as well.

But back to the ideas. Pickens' idea that oil production peaked in 2005 is seriously flawed. For one thing, the Eastern potentates have partially closed the valves to keep the prices high. They need to open them up again. And, coincidentally, the powers-that-be seem to be delaying delivery of oil to keep the prices high.

If we can get the Democrats in Congress to let us drill offshore [where the oil is and not 50 miles away] and in that tiny portion of the landscape called ANWR, World oil production will be substantially increased, mostly in the US. And we can wave goodbye as the Middle East oil money begins to dry up and the Emirs have to reduce the number of wives and sizes of their palaces. Now those would be great reasons for rejoicing here in the US. Maybe the Saudis will have to delay importing sand for their palace moats.

The Pickens Plan features are based on incorrect calculations because they have faulty assumptions. According to Elmhurst College: "Although all fractions of petroleum find uses, the greatest demand is for gasoline. One barrel of crude petroleum contains only 25-35% gasoline. Transportation demands require that over 50% of the crude oil be converted into gasoline. To meet this demand some petroleum fractions must be converted to gasoline. This may be done by "cracking" - breaking down large molecules of heavy heating oil; "reforming" - changing molecular structures of low quality gasoline molecules; or "polymerization" - forming longer molecules from smaller ones."

Thus Picken's use of the current per barrel oil price is wrong. It should only be half as much. Thus with the corrected calculation below includes exact figures instead of gratuitous 'roundings.'

928,600 barrels/day x $106.89/barrel* x 50% x 365 days/year =
$18.1 billion
*$106.89/barrel as of Sep 26, 2008.

Quite a difference isn't it?

But, while we might save $18.1 billion in gas costs, how much does he expect us to pay for CNG? There won't be any savings no matter how he presents it.

For argument's sake, the Pickens' savings figure presented is not $50 billion but only $18.1 billion. But why does Pickens think that money we supposedly save is going to be used by the government? Pickens says: 'Let Washington put those billions to work as incentives to build and buy CNG vehicles like the rest of the world enjoys.' So, who pays for our CNG fuel?

Is he proposing a tax equal to his proposed pitiful savings? Where else would the money come from?

No, I think the Pickens Plan is a dud, and we should stay away from it. Thank you Mr Pickens and Mr McLendon, but please be honest in your advertising and stay away from environmental issues that you can only solve with flawed data and conclusions and self serving expectations.

Shoring up the Falling Building with Balsa Planks

2008-09-25T21:09:00.000-04:00

Is anyone surprised at the current contentiousness about the proposed federal bailout? And is anyone surprised that some of the people trying to solve it are the same ones who screwed things up in the first place? It's no news that Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Presidents Carter and Clinton and their cronies are largely responsible for the failures. Frank and Dodd, right up to the blowup, kept claiming everything was fine [as they accepted large donations from F & F], and they led the efforts to rebuke Republican attempts to rein in Fannie and Freddie. And all of them, going back to 1977 [Biden was in office; McCain hadn't run yet], have been pushing and prodding the F & F twins to put pressure on banks and other financial institutions to provide mortgages to people who couldn't afford them. They made these loans to illegal immigrants! They made large loans to people who had no income except food stamps and welfare! They lent 100% or more of the value of the home in some cases! And when those homes couldn't be sold quickly at a profit, the owners defaulted. Surprise!

During the Clinton years we had the same thing. In 2005, John McCain and the other Republicans tried to create oversite and reform for F & F, but were stopped by Democrat/Clinton pressure and votes. And that was only one of the many tries from the Republicans, though they weren't as noisy or insistent as they should have been.

Step back a moment. We must recognize that our economy is based on capitalism, and such a system, by definition---just like morality and the World---requires both successes and failures, good and evil, wealth and bankruptcy. Now, I'm not saying that this current huge failure---which everyone but the main stream media seems to know how was created---should continue without some government aid. I'm just not sure how much aid should be proffered [if any] or how it should be considered.

The 'nanny state' concerns me very much.

Currently, I don't trust Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Dodd, Clinton, Obama et al to propose or structure relief in this crisis. They haven't solved anything of importance yet. So, I have no problem with the Republican efforts to change the bail out.

And if you think this is bad, wait until the eleventh hour when Social Security is about to collapse, and the Democrats cry 'woe is us!' when they've been the ones who have fought tooth and nail to keep saner minds from doing anything to fix it. It was the Democrat Congress that perpetuated taking the social security payments into the general fund providing the Social Security Administration with 'paper' to cover it. And the Congress has never, and doesn't appear to ever want, to pay the funds back.

The quick fixes of tax increases, later retirement ages, and other band aids won't work in the long run. Republican suggestions including partial privatization [just a tad folks, just a tad] keep being rejected. [Listen, nobody's going to be investing his paltry sums in risky home mortgages. Get a life!]

Maybe now, the Democrats will sit down to serious discussions concerning Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Maybe. But I doubt it. There's still too much posturing and blaming the other side around us now. So, we who are still here to see the actual demise of the Social Security system can thank the Democrat Congresses from over the years for another debacle. Oh, but oh, if the Congresses had simply left the system alone with it's collections, the SSA would be solvent for many years to come.

Besides, Congress likes to wait until the last minute when their children are about to collapse before suggesting socialism to save it.

And I'd like to remind you, my friends, of all the debacles---especially in the economy [via socialism] defense [via weakness], war on terror [via weakness], and foreign policy [via wishy-washy words without force]---you'll be seeing if Obama wins the White House.

Snake Oil and Vinegar?

2008-09-13T23:27:00.001-04:00

It's a shame how the Democrats want to punish Joe Lieberman for speaking at the Republican convention. It's a shame that the party of 'tolerance' can't accept the free choice and speech of a US Senator. It's a shame that the Democrats want to 'punish' a Senator who is no longer a Democrat. But, as usual, the Democrats are shameless and self-serving. They are the party of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the Clintons.

What's next for the Democrats? Oh, I know. They're trying to punish the Governor of Alaska for wanting to protect infant life; for exercise her second amendment rights in owning and using a gun; for wanting to protect and raise her family in private with her husband; for having much more executive and decision making experience than their ideal, Barack Obama---say, that makes her better qualified than the entire Democrat ticket, doesn't it?

It seems the only people Senator Obama doesn't want to punish are his daughters if they ever make the 'sex' mistake that befalls so many teens. He doesn't want them 'punished' with a live baby. What a sad way to talk about the miracle of birth.

And the Democrat vultures have descended on Alaska to dig [or manufacture] dirt about Sarah Palin. And in the same spirit, the 'independent' investigator of the 'non-event' 'troopergate' has ceded subpoena power to the Democrats. Even though the fired official in question says that he was never asked to fire anybody, nor was he pressured to do anything, the waste of time goes on. And as usual, the Democrats don't want any facts to get in the way of their march to personal destruction.

Well, that's okay, because Sarah Palin is on the Republican ticket as the Vice Presidential candidate. And she doesn't really care that the Democrats want to punish her for being pro-life, pro-second amendment, pro-family, a woman not a Liberal.

And you know what? The Democrats will never succeed. Sarah Palin is now on the national scene, she's a strong executive and will make an excellent Vice President. The Democrats can look to nothing but failure and continued irrelevance in the future.

American Voters! Don't let yourselves and your neighbors down by falling prey to the snake oil salesman of the Democrat Party!

Palin, Obama and the Future

2008-09-10T18:19:00.000-04:00

Well, of course the left has gone ballistic over the selection of Sarah Palin. She stands for everything they want to destroy: life, 2nd ammendment, glass ceiling, etc. etc. and so forth [sorry King!]

Sarah Palin is pro-life in all cases and willing to raise a 'special needs' baby instead of aborting it; the left [the mainstream media is to be included within the term 'left'] is pro-abortion, or murdering the unborn baby---or partially born baby---if the woman [or the leftist pundits] want it. Talk about playing God.

Sarah Palin is pro-second ammendment, and a lifelong member of the NRA. She owns guns and uses them in hunting to keep meat on the table. The left wants guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens, but have no answer for the criminals---or those on the left who surrepticiously own them. They don't care that homeowners and others can't defend themselves. They also, logically, are attacking the US military, probably in part because they have guns and use them. 'Can't we all live together?

Sarah Palin has been an effective and laudable Governor of Alaska for the past two years [while Obama was in the midst of his multi-year run for the Presidency] with many listable accomplishments [I'm not going to repeat them here; they're available on the net to anyone who wants to read them again]; the left questions her abilities and experience to 'be a heart beat away from the Presidency' while never questioning Obama's complete lack of experience and proven ability to be a Governor, let alone President.

Obama, himself, has said that he was a poor 'community organizer' [and the meaning of that 'job' is yet to be understood], yet the left chooses that mundane [but locally important?] job to be good experience to be a President of the US.

Sarah Palin's family is off limits, and the radical media and bloggers need their butts tanned for the smears, innuendos, lies, and irrational contempt.

The list goes on, but it should be noted that it's quite obvious to any thinking person that Sarah Palin is more qualifed in temperament and experience to be President than Obama or Biden is.

So, is it any wonder at the attacks from the left? They'll continue, because no matter what Sarah Palin and John McCain do, the radical left will always berate them, smear them, and lie about them.

And oh, by the way. A McCain election could mean the thrusting of Sarah Palin on the National stage with such force that she'll automatically be the front runner for the Presidency after McCain. And the Democrats can't survive that. And that may account for the panic and anger.

Presidential Politics

2008-09-04T11:22:00.002-04:00

It seems the rats and vicious insects of the leftist Democrats and Liberals have been released to do their dirtiest now that John McCain has selected a Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. From Daily Kos and the other Liberal blogs to the 'in-bed' media of most of the networks' anchors [notably MSNBC] sing the naysayers, dirtsayers, and general nabobs of negativism.

For a varied list of Presidential factoids, I offer the following.

'Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.' - Bill Burton, Obama Campaign spokesman.

What he fails to note is that his candidate for the TOP post [with the actual beating heart] has much less experience, judgment, and executive ability than has the Republican woman running for the second post.

'...What has Sen. Obama ever run? What business, city, or state has he ever been in charge of? What employees and advisors has he ever had to get the most out of? What cabinet meetings has he ever orchestrated? What corporate agreements has he ever negotiated? What National Guard units has he ever been commander of?' - Nicholas Guariglia of Family Security Matters.

Even I, Topaz, with no political history, have more general aptitude and experience than Obama---though I'm not as tall or colorful.

'Sen. Obama’s entire career – from community organizing [what exactly is that?] in urban Chicago, to failed political bids, to the Illinois legislator, to 143 days in the Senate before announcing a bid for the presidency – has been one of constant up-the-ladder maneuvering.' - Nicholas Guariglia of Family Security Matters.

One might also note Obama had the 'judgment' in Illinois to serve his constituents and the State by voting 'present' 130 times, and speaking out and voting against [one of those rare times he actually voted yes or no] the 'IL born Alive Infant Protection Bill.'

'I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.' - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

'Whenever Senator Obama has sought to ascertain a position of high political prestige, whether he failed or succeeded in that endeavor, he has immediately begun looking to ascertain a position of even higher political prestige.' - Nicholas Guariglia of Family Security Matters.

Rather like the professional student as it were. Senator Obama was barely in the Senate long enough to find his seat, before he announced his intention to run for the Presidency, thus leading to the longest Presidential campaign in history. I hope Illinois is proud of it's only working Senator, Dick Durbin.

'Obama seems to like the winning, but not the job or responsibility that comes with the winning. With no cheese at the end of the maze, the young lawyer/professor from Southside seems to lose his focus.' - Nicholas Guariglia of Family Security Matters.

'...and Barack Obama loves the future because that’s where all his accomplishments are.' - David Brookes

'...The next president will have to finish the denuclearization of North Korea; prevent the nuclearization of Iran; organize a departure from Iraq that maintains some level of stability; defeat a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan; establish, nurture, and make the most of a relationship with Pakistan’s new leaders; and confront a revanchist Russia…' - Peter Skoblic, The New Republic.

On speaking terms with most of the World's leaders, John McCain is by far the abler candidate to deal with these problems. In contrast, Obama made a noisy trip to the Middle East and a speech in Germany, where he declined a visit with wounded US soldiers because he couldn't make a political event out of it.

'But here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion - I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country. Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reasons, and not just to mingle with the right people.' - Sarah Palin.

This is a direct challenge to those Liberal, Obama-adoring media types who nit-pick the life of a good Governor trying to find something negative to talk about---even if they have to invent it.

'...voting for the 1980s nuclear freeze and against Reagan’s defense buildup; against the original Gulf War in 1991; for the Iraq trifurcation into ethnic enclaves and against the successful troop surge in the present; and against labeling the Iranian Revolutionary Guards 'terrorists' - Nicholas Guariglia re Joe Biden.

Just what are Joe Biden's qualifications again? Sitting on committees and making speeches?

Senator Joe Biden recently announced to Israeli leaders that they should get used to a nuclear Iran. Well, that's another sign that Obama-Biden aren't going to be serious about meeting and dealing with our adversaries [not to mention their betrayal of our Government's support of Israel.] And they have the nerve to classify a more experienced Sarah Palin as a lightweight in the foreign policy arena?

'Yet according to Obama, his foreign policy experience consists of 'ties to relatives in poor villages in Kenya and the years he spent growing up in Indonesia. Now he has added a new personal detail to that résumé: a trip to Pakistan while a college student.' Perhaps his recent whirlwind trip to the Middle East and Europe, where he spoke in front of thousands of adoring Germans, can be considered another notch in his belt.' - Pam Meister, Family Security Matters.

Don't these facts ring a bell in your heads, oh genuflecting adorers of the Obamessiah? Does an empty suit flap in the wind?

And more recently, the Obama-Biden ticket has promised to prosecute anyone they could from the Bush administration for---well, for anything including excessive use of pencil erasers. If, God forbid, they get into their offices, most of the time will be spent on other than the Country's business. Obama isn't qualified to do anything anyway. And by the way, what would Obama aspire to run for after that? Pope? World Emperor?

While in the Illinois legislature, Senator Obama argued against the 'IL Born-Alive Infants Protection Bill', something that would have protected the life of the baby if born alive. I read Obama's argument on the Senate floor and found it to be rambling, incoherent at times, and bad enough for him to claim just about any sentiment from it. His later comment that if he were in the US Senate at the time, he would have voted for the federal 'Born-Alive Infant Protection Bill' is just a gratuitous statement of fancy.

It was recently announced that Sarah Palin's 17 year old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant and not married. She and her boyfriend/fiance have been planning marriage and will probably wed before the baby is born. Bristol has the complete support of her family, and she has a great opportunity to live a happy life with her own family as it grows. On the other hand, if she chose abortion or welfare, the left would love her to death. Don't kid yourselves readers, the left is the death dealer of your lifetime. It's idea of 'choice' doesn't include life, but it does include death even when the baby is almost born. Knocking heads together is nothing compared to crushing skulls, is it?

'Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old,' he [Obama] said. 'I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished with an STD at age 16, so it doesn't make sense to not give them information.' - Barack Obama

It's so sad to hear a candidate for the highest office in the land state his belief that 'motherhood' is a punishment---and again by the way, 17 is at or past the age of consent in all the states, parents notwithstanding. He seems to forget that without motherhood and close parental care, we'd all be---well, we wouldn't be.

Sarah Palin's husband quit his 17-year British Petroleum oil job when BP became involved in natural gas pipeline negotiations with his wife’s administration---a wise move.

On the other hand, Barack Obama's wife was promoted and given 160% pay raise by U of C hospitals within months of her husband’s election to U.S. Senate. Furthermore, her employer received $1,000,000.00 federal earmark, requested by husband, after her promotion. Just a coincidence, you say? Can pigs fly yet?

John McCain, a Navy veteran, was shot down and spent some five and half years in a North Vietnamese prison camp under horrid conditions. Besides basic deprivation, he suffered numerous broken bones in both arms and legs, shoulder, and ribcage. Yet, he refused to give up any strategic military information to his captors. He refused early release because his fellow prisoners weren't offered a similar release. His captivity showed his character and perseverence even under torture. He commanded a huge Naval group while on active duty, and he spent productive and active years as a US Senator---a bi-partisan maverick for most of them.

On the other hand you have Barack Obama. [You have him, I don't want him.] Now think deep in your hearts. Do you think that Barack Obama could have stood up against such captivity? Could he have kept his mouth shut under torture? With broken bones? Somehow, I doubt it. And he'd find that flowery oratory doesn't cut it in the real World.

Barack Obama wants to be President 'real bad', doesn't he? Well, since he has no experience, we should grant his basic wish and make him President of a small business in an area where he and his cronies can't exert political pressure. If he's successful, we can consider him for jobs higher and higher on the scale [we certainly don't want to give him something that's not in his 'pay grade'] until we come to political office: a full term as a mayor, maybe two; a state office where he actually has to work; and then maybe for Congress, where again he'll have to be there and actually get something done. After a few terms there, he consider running for the Presidency. He'll still be defeated, but he can logically run at that time. If he can't hack it early on in this program, then he should promise to go away and let the adults take care of matters he doesn't understand.

Governor Sarah Palin was vetted by the McCain campaign and the people of Alaska. But who has vetted Senator Obama? certainly not the American people. With the National media tripping over themselves and getting goose bumps every time they hear or come across Obama, they aren't about to report fairly and accurately to the American public. Could Obama even receive a top-secret security clearance? I doubt it. His past and present relationships with convicts, communists and purveyors of hate and terror would easily prevent that. And you on the left would give this man the highest office in the most powerful country on Earth?

And what about experience? Obama's a perfect example of what's wrong with Washington, especially on the left. The Senators and Representatives are: primarily lawyers, many of whom are strictly in name only; and they aren't qualified for city council, let alone National office. They are mostly 'good-old boys' living beyond their mental means, and scaring the public with their radical and illogical stands about National policy.

Would you hire Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, or Barack Obama, to run your business profitablly and with good will? Once again, I doubt it.

Finally: 'In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.' - Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

As a sidelight, this is a detailed comparison and contrast between Palin and Obama:

http://www.betterconstructed.com/sarah_palin.htm

The Topaz Choice

2008-08-30T15:02:00.001-04:00

Well, the anointing is over for now. The empty suit has proclaimed his divinity, and the audience of donkeys have worshipped their golden idol. Senator Messiah Obama's speech was uplifting only to those who are true believers. To the rest of us, he said little other than generalities and the continued mocking of John McCain. The American flags in the hands of the delegates and others were notably missing from the festivities, and there was little chanting other than 'Obama.' Large crowd, Greek temple, anointing---what have I missed?

When John McCain announced his Vice Presidential pick in Dayton, there were numerous chants of 'USA' and the waving of the American flag.

Despite plenty of opportunity [he's been running for the Presidency for several years now], Obama doesn't seem to understand that thinking people want specifics from him, not generalities.

But remember. Obama has very little political experience and no executive experience. He's never led people, penned a veto, reformed anything, or done little more than take up room in the Senate.

Joe Biden is the pure attack dog and a good old boy from the ancient Liberal group in the Senate. And with Obama, he may be half of the most Liberal pair of Senators. He has a constituancy of about 427,000 people, not all of whom voted for him. He hasn't led anything in Delaware other than the Liberal pack of wolves.

Do we want Liberals? Do we want larger government, more governmental control of our lives? Do we want higher taxes to pay for it? Do we want increased costs of fuel, food, and everyday items because the Liberals are searching for the perfect energy source?

Do we want a President influenced by Ted Kennedy, Rev Wright, the Clintonistas, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and John Murtha?

A resounding no.

For all his faults, John McCain gives us the best alternative for the Presidency. He'll be pro life, for stronger border protection, stronger defense and home security, and he has the military and political experience to lead us in the dangerous times ahead. Would you rather have Obama or McCain dealing with Putin or Ahmadinejad at three am? Sweet talk or strong, positive efforts---whether military or political.

Sarah Palin was a terrific choice for McCain's running mate. She has executive experience, has wielded a veto pen, has defied her powerful colleagues in the search for reform, and led people successfully. She's the governor and leader of some 670,000 Alaskans. She is knowledgeable and positive for energy searching. Say! Wait a minute! Sarah Palin is more qualified for the Presidency than Barack Obama!

I believe Sarah Palin will energize the public along the campaign trail and hold her own against aging, Joe Biden in the Vice Presidential debate.

So, you have a good choice, my friends. Do you want the desperate human beings of the Democrat party? The candidates promising higher taxes, increased governmental control in your lives? The ones which will insure continued high prices for energy, food, daily needs? Is that 'Change' and 'Hope' to you? The candidates with the idling SUVs outside the 'Green' convention?

Or do you want a candidate with proven leadership experience to effectively manage the countryP Lower taxes? Less governmental intrusion into your daily lives? Better respect for the human individual? Appointments to the Supreme Court who aren't going to legislate from the bench? More American energy developed, more power plants on line to reduce the overall cost of energy, food, and everyday items? Don't you want a President who will stand up against Putin and Ahmadinejad at any time of the day?

And for Vice Presidential candidate, McCain has chosen a woman with much more solid experience than Obama on the the Democrat side. She's tough, intelligent, has executive experience, is a capable leader, is pro-life, and strongly conservative on all the issues.

These comments have by necessity been short. I leave it to the pundits and pros to expand on all the issues and stances. But I ask you to think of the future when you vote.

Republican Veepstakes

2008-08-27T14:06:00.001-04:00

Read this quick before the decision is made. I'll address this to John McCain on the hope that he or a member of his staff will read this and take action.

The Democrats show themselves regularly to be radical leftists in transluscent sheeps' clothing. So, there'll be nothing new in what they are planning for the campaign. Senator Obama's pick of Joe Biden as the Democrat Vice Presidential Candidate is the standard white man safety choice. The pair are among the most Liberal/Socialist members of the Senate. And it's no secret that Barack Obama is pretty much an empty suit with no administrative experience to speak of, and Joe Biden has a track record of obfuscation and foot-in-the-mouth disease. Between the two of them, the spin-meisters and heralds of 'mis-speak' will be working overtime. The choice also effectively cuts the Clintonistas' out of the picture.

John McCain is a good man and, by far, the better candidate for the Presidency. But, now we anxiously await his running mate choice. He can play it safe by picking the safe white man---Pawlenty, Romney, Crist et al---but he'd be far better off with a younger woman in the position. The failure of the Clintons has left a political void for the women of the Country, Democrat or Republican, to see progress.

A choice of a Conservative woman for the Republican Vice Presidential spot would be an exellent way to unite the party and empower the women of the Country. It might be just the thing to insure the election of Republicans to more offices than just the oval one.

As to whom he should choose? Well, that's hard to predict. Kay Bailey Hutchinson is an attractive choice, but she's too much a RINO, and we certainly don't need that. Besides, I don't think she'll hold up to the attacks from the left.

Condoleeza Rice, to me, is a RINO, and one who would be too delicate for a national office campaign.

My choice would be Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska. I admit I didn't know anything about her a short time ago. But after some research I've discovered she's a no nonsense reformer, true Conservative, and able administrator. She's a growing expert on energy, and she'd bring life to the campaign.

So, John McCain, please be careful with your choice on Friday. The Nation is depending on you. We can't allow Senator Messiah Obama in the Oval Office. You just need to look at where his acceptance speech will be. In a huge stadium before 80,000 cheering supporters, he'll be anointed in front of a curve of Greek columns. The only things missing will be the oils---or at least I hope so.

When will it dawn on the fawning Democrats that they are now part of a cult? And a cult which will lead our Nation downhill, perhaps low enough to keep us from ever recovering again.

More Thoughts on the Beijing Olympics and Televised Sports

2008-08-25T23:02:00.001-04:00

We've had the opening and closing ceremonies at Beijing, and they were exciting sights, alright. One has to admire spectacles, and the Beijing ceremonies certainly fit the bill. They were orchestrated by a Chinese film-maker, Zhang Yimou, [with a little help from his friends at the Chinese Politburo] who had previously enjoyed critical film success with: 'To Each His Cinema' [2007], 'Curse of the Golden Flower' [2006], and 'House of Flying Daggers' [2004].

Let others extol the epic ceremonies and athletic excellence of the games, my thoughts are elsewhere.

Both the opening and closing ceremonies were thoroughly enjoyable, but they both had their human glitches. Some---no one will admit exactly how much---of the fireworks display was faked for television audiences. [Mostly in the West, because I doubt there are very many television sets in China.] It was said that the fireworks display happened in real life, but the 'faking' was done for television purposes only. But many think that, if it happened in real life, why couldn't it be shown that way? The Chinese were more concerned with 'picture perfect' ceremonies than Monk is with his cutlery drawer.

Another downer was the lip synching of the sweet nine year old, Lin Miaoke, on stage and in the spotlight for billions to watch. She was cute as a button, but she didn't do any singing that the audience could hear. Her real voice singing the ode was a chandelier breaker. Oh no, the real singer of the 'Ode to the Motherland', Yang Peiyi, wasn't considered 'cute' or 'attractive' enough to be shown during the performances, yet her pictures show her to be adorable. [Confucius says in his 'Analects': Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.]

The ceremonies' musical director, Chen Qigang, claims that the 'child on camera should be flawless in image...' Of course, this was quoted after the Politburo gave him it's opinion about what solo performers should look like.

The China Daily Newspaper claimed 'she [Lin Miaoke] is well on her way to becoming a star...' without commenting on the lip synching. Say? Doesn't that lip-synching on stage really make her a star? Don't our western entertainers sometimes do the same thing? Of course, in most cases, the latter actually did the singing at some other time. I know Pavarotti lip-synched his performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics. However, he recorded the song in the first place. And he was seriously ill at the time and couldn't perform in the frigid outdoor weather. He died the next year.

Remember the children's chorus? Some of the singing was also lip-synched. The powers that be were afraid that any off key, off tune, or erroneous singing by members of the choruses would not show perfection. [Too bad. Such singing would have had a natural charm.] How much more real and natural it would have been if the singers, 'warts' and all were shown singing in real time, and the choruses singing in the same way.

It was also reported that all the 'ethnic' peoples presented in the ceremonies were actually Chinese and not the various ethnicities at all. I wonder how prevalent the substitutions were? I guess the true ethnic people in China aren't perfect enough for the World to see.

And the soldiers and entertainers, poor souls, had to wear diapers for their seven hour stint preparing and performing. I suppose diapers can be necessary for long performances at times, but for seven hours? I'd hate to have to empty all the dumpsters.

Many of the Chinese performers, especially in the closing ceremonies, were masked---some, it seemed, in football helmets with masks---and unidentifiable. I wonder how many of these participants were free to choose such anonymity for such a long period. And can you imagine being one of the hundreds of unidentifiable humans creating the waves and trees, clinging to high, wired stands in the semi-dark?

I'm reminded of Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis.' Participants had to become anonymous in order to show the ability of the group as a whole. [Hive mentality.] Individualism in performance---like from good communist-controlled citizens---has to be restrained unless in sync [lip-synch?] with all the others and the huge choreographed whole. The ceremonies also brought the movie 'Antz' more into focus.

But, of course, I didn't see people or groups per se. I saw units making up the show of the hive, not even the soul because the communists don't believe in souls. There were no individuals performing, only parts of the whole in their undulating and form-shaping choreography.

And wasn't that the purpose of the Beijing games? To show the collective perfection of the hive mentality in the best light? To show how the communist society can produce beauty---free will not withstanding? To unknowingly show us how the forced 'orcness' of the communist peoples in China? To raise itself in World opinion by denigrating many of its citizens? [Confucius says in his 'Analects': An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.]

The population of Communist China is about 1.3 billion people. They must live in 3.8 million square miles [much of it rocky and barren], compared to our 303 million citizens living in 3.7 million square miles. And you think you live in a crowded neighborhood? The Chinese air is polluted, and too many people are forced to live in hovels, not the beautiful neighborhoods you saw on television of Beijing or other major cities. The Chinese government permits these factory and transportation polluters of air, land, and water to continue operating so that they can send more flawed goods to the United States for hard cash. And we sit around and permit it. But I wander off point.

However, my great admiration for the work of the human mind must include the millions of subjugated individuals forced to collectively put the communist ethic in the best light. They have no choice in how they are forced to live and perform for their masters. But, I have the freedom to view it and comment on it in the light of day.

On another note, the apparently underage gymnasts who weren't allowed to be interviewed to any extent [afraid they might tell the truth?], exemplify the 'forced labor camp' mentality. Sure, the Politburo-led officials might have chosen other gymnasts, but the idea at the Beijing-sponsored games was to have Chinese athletes win gold medals and show China in the best light of World opinion. [That's why their athletes are chosen at very young ages and forced into the sporting regimen for the people for a long number of years.] And everyone knows that girls under sixteen do a better job than those older---you know, fewer injuries, lighter bodies, less individualism, more apt to toe the regimentation line, etc.

I sent an email to NBC Sports during the games. I didn't like having to view a large picture of Chinese icon, Mao Tse-Tung, in the background of the shots of Bob Costas, and I explained it to the network. I don't think we Americans should have had to watch that. [Why do you think the Chinese hung it there in the first place?] NBC ignored me. The picture is an obnoxious reminder of past Chinese atrocities, and an American television network has no business promoting Communist symbols to the rest of us.

Now, NBC is on par with ESPN as far as sports broadcasting is concerned. The commercial breaks during a live event were ill timed to say the least. Follow that with network self promotion ad nauseum, and you can understand why I watched more of the Olympics online than I did on television---in fact, it was often with the television in the background with no sound [the best way to watch most television broadcasts anyway.]

And one has to squint to be sure to see anything, what with score tables at top, other sports info at the bottom, promo pop ups at the bottom interfering with the live action, sometimes at critical points. The television screen is so cluttered, it looks like my PC with the icons and gadgets and precious little wallpaper room. Of course, promo pop-ups never happen during commercials, do they?

Besides which, both NBC and ESPN replay every decent or questionable effort of the players constantly. [I'm sure the other networks are the same.] So much so, in fact, that it's difficult to tell what's live action and what's Memorex. Even as simple a play as a baseball strike or ball is played over constantly to show the viewers how the network is so very efficient, and has so many cameras covering each play from all directions.

Is it any wonder I no longer watch the baseball All Star Game or World Series on television? I can follow it easier online. The same applies to Basketball and Football. I only watch other televised sports rarely.

Excuse me for now, I'm going to watch some athletic performances online for free and without inane commentary, playbacks, pop-ups, pictures of Mao or commercial interruptions. Is this Heaven? No it's Iowa...er..I mean it's online freedom.

Random Thoughts

2008-08-22T16:54:00.002-04:00

As many of you already know, I don't make blog entries on any regular schedule. That's a bad thing and a good thing. It's a bad thing for those who might be interested in my thoughts, and it's a good thing for those who might be interested in my thoughts.

It generally takes me some time to put my blog entries together since I edit and re-edit them ad infinitum. I have about twenty in progress at any one time. Unfortunately, I'm disposed to skip words and not type in correctly what I'm thinking at times. So, I take my time to be sure my thoughts are as clear as possible. Thus, the finished product is more polished and coherent than it would be if I sped to the blog more quickly.

That being said, if you want notification of my blog entries, just send me an email at: tnmccoy63@comcast.net and say so. I'll stop when you ask me to do so.

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Susan Sarandan says "if John McCain gets elected...[I]...will move to Italy or Canada. She adds, 'It's a critical time, but I have faith in the American people." We've all heard these hollow promises from the left before.

Susan is a little left of the local Socialist, and we won't miss her when she moves [assuming she does.] As an extra added attraction, she can take her husband, Tim Robbins, with her. But not to Italy. I am Italian in ancestry, and I wouldn't want the couple in that Country either.
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Suburu claims its US factory is not on a landfill site, and so we're supposed to think that's an aid to the environment. Actually, not being on a landfill probably means the company cut down trees and flattened leas to build the factory. Personally, I'd rather see the landfill re-used first.
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In recent years, scientists have determined that a mysterious force is pushing the universe to expand at an increasing rate, and they don't understand how it's happening. University of Chicago cosmologist Michael Turner has called the acceleration 'the most profound mystery in all of science.'

Perhaps there is no mystery. Perhaps the acceleration is caused by the hot air emanating from the Obama camp and other socialist lefts.
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A few months ago, Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton [who, by the way, hasn't conceded the Democrat presidential candacy to Barack Obama yet---and the Democrat Convention should be a real spectacle!] told some Democrats 'she would create a national academy to train public servants.'

I can see it now. 'Rodham-Clinton University for the Servant Class,' graduating gifted fly-over people to serve your needs. I foresee courses such as: Ego Tripping; Advanced Obfuscation; How to Say No 100 Different Ways---some of which sound like yes; Introductory and Advanced Lying---aka Misspeaking; Campaign and non-Campaign Fund Raising; Bimbo-Speak; Effective Document Hiding; Simple Investing---Invest $1,000, do nothing for thirty days, reap $100,000; Conversational and Obfuscational Chinese. Yeah! Way to Go!
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Spare me the groans, but for the last few years, scientists have been spending their spare time wondering why so many of us have spare tires. Their answer? A fat virus.

It seems they think there's a virus around that, when caught, causes us to add pounds faster than normal---whatever normal is. So, when I pack away that extra piece of cheese cake, it's not really my conscious fault. The virus and the devil made me do it. Need to gain some weight for your new movie role? No problem! Have your botox salesman stick you with a dose of fat virus.

I wonder how far the blame game will continue? Being fat can now be a free ride or warrant an all expense paid trip to the doctor's office for the anti-venom---I mean antiv-virus, of course. And I wonder when the retailers will pick up on this promotional bonanza?

'Fat Virus Happy Hour! C'mon in and feed your virus with quality food. Buy one dessert, get one free. Free wine for the ladies! C'mon in! It won't be your fault.'

'Popcorn! Peanuts! Get your red hots here! The Ball Park's famous virus-free hot dogs made from only the finest offal ingredients!'

'Do you suffer from the dreaded fat virus bug? Hey there cats and kittens! Take it from me, 'a mild mannered reporter' and latest satisfied customer of Greane's Virus Resistant Collar! 'There ain't no bugs on me! There ain't no bugs on me! There may be bugs on some of you lugs, but there ain't no bugs on me. [Forgiveness for the paraphrase sought.] Talk to your doctor and see if the Greane VRC is right for you. Sold by prescription only. [Side effects are too numerous to disclose, but make sure you've already had your kids.]'

'Want to fit into that slinky bikini? Of course you do. And new and improved ViFree lotion will help you do it. Just rub the extra-strength aqua-purifier into your skin and watch the pounds melt away. Research has shown that just one application of ViFree lotion per day on a regular basis will kill those pesky fat viruses, especially around your middle and hips. No liposuction or strenous excercising necessary. Call now and reserve you portion of the great ViFree lotion! Medicare and credit cards cheerfully accepted. Remember! Just one application per day for that new lithe figure you always wanted!

'Today only! Teddy Kennedy Virus Free Senate Bean Soup! Absolutely no sea water or pork involved. Teddy's favorite. $250,000 per bowl, served in a bucket seat with a dancing Capitol waitress. Free with every bowl, an ego-fed Byrd's nest and white hood. Large orders can be delivered to your family compound.'

You know, spending public funds is an easy job. You just need to convince a liberal that your research or 'artistic' endeavor will lift the human spirit. And so, what will be our next great discovery? 'Virus causes Porn addiction?' 'Virus causes Marriage Breakups?' 'Virus causes sinful behavior?' 'The devil made me do it!'
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Ken Roswell on Townhall tells us:

'Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost.

'Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he’s not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant.'

Indeed, that's the problem in a nutshell. How long will the mainstream media cover-up for Will they accept his capitulation to the United Nations? Will they survive his higher taxes?

Somehow, I think the media will wake up if Obama wins his goal [I hope so, I hope not.] His honeymoon may be short, and we'll all be suffering soon. Welcome aboard!
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As asked by Fox News a few months ago:
'Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer's physician did — inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure that went wrong.'

Tell me, is that something we in the 21st Century need care about? The man died almost two hundred years ago, and I think we have more pressing things to deal with. For instance, why are scientists taking public money to do this type of research? If we took the money for this research---along with monies from other similar waste-of-time research---we'd have millions, perhaps billions, of dollars available for rational medical research or---God forbid---returning to the taxpayer.
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That's enough randomness for this session. There'll be a lot more to come because the political and real World will continually feed me data for another blog and many blogs to come.

Secrets of the Deity?

2008-08-02T15:52:00.002-04:00

The secret's out. Barack Obama is a self-professed, 'citizen of the World.' This means, of course, that the Senator's possible Presidency would probably be a UN-like administration. Obama would have more interest in the people of all countries, than in his own.

Could it be that our messianic Senator has his god-like fixation set on dangerous levels destined to put all us free, taxpaying Americans---those who have and have not supported him---on an equal or a lower rank than those billions of 'citizens' of the rest of the World? It appears so. [The sentence is 50 words; one for each state. My first idea was 300 million words {an example of a bloated sentence} to represent all us Americans, but my software can't handle all that data in one document.]

Senator Obama has already introduced the Global Poverty Act [s.2433] to the Senate in January 2007. This legislation "requires the Presidential administration to 'develop and implement a comprehensive strategy' to achieve 'the Millenium Development Goal [UN] of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide...who live on less than $1 per day."

Think about this: Obama's bill would ratify the UN mandate to the 'wealthy' countries [USA] to contribute .7% of the Gross National Product [GNP] each year. [And you know how honest and efficient the UN is.]

Now, the Commerce Department stopped reporting the USA GNP in 1992, and finding it now is nearly impossible. Today, the Commerce reporting is on the Gross Domestic Product [GDP], which is smaller than the GNP for a reason. It doesn't include the net foreign income of our citizens and corporations. So to get the GNP [on which the UN calculates mandates] I have to find the data on growth charts from the St Louis Fed.

The actual and forecasts for the period in discussion are: about $10 trillion GNP for 2000; about $15 trillion GNP for 2010. Using the latter figure times ten, we can easily estimate the GNP of the USA for the next ten years will be at least: $150 trillion. That's mind boggling, for sure. But it indicates what a huge effect the US has on the global economy. All done from the hard work of independent people.

And what is .7% of $150 trillion? The answer is: $1,050 billion. In other words, one trillion $$ and 50 billion $$. [Placed end-end, $1,050 billion dollars can reach around the Earth and squeeze all American taxpayers into bankruptcy.] But what are those figures in real terms? Read on oh voyager.

$1,050 billion over ten years is equal to:

a. 2.6 million teachers [at $40 thousand per year for ten years]
b. 21,000 corner medical clinics [at $5 million per year for ten years]
c. 53 million automobiles [at $20 thousand each]
d. 1 million Jumbo Lottery Prizes [at $1 million each]
e. 1 trillion candy bars [about 3 bars per person each day for ten years]
f. 10% of a Congress [at $105 billion per year for ten years]

And who gets to pay for this UN mandate? Well, you and I do, of course. We will be paying approximately $3,100 each over and above the increased taxation from Obama and the Democrats. Not only will our pockets be empty, we'll only know what used to be in them via nostalgia.

And who gets to dole out all this money? No one seems willing to tell me, but I believe it will be the UN. [And you all know how honest and efficient the UN is.]

And who gets the money? Poor national governments. Will they distribute it to the people in need? Of course---whatever is left after palace construction, arms purchases, military bonuses, necessary Swiss bank deposits for the ruling group, and several expensive cars being airlifted to and back from Great Britain for an oil change. Having the UN spend it directly won't be much different.

And all this US spending is in addition to our bloated funding for foreign aid and our increasing nanny-state. Welcome to the new World of the US taxpayer paying for everything everywhere, from the expenses of military Juntas to the costs of health and welfare for many populations. The funds will also be used to line the pockets of UN officials and be siphoned to rogue states. Talk about socialized nanny-ism!

You may not like to look at detailed figures, but when they represent the money that'll be coming out of your pocket, you should be very afraid. The oft spouted 'Change' will not be for the better. It will mean what's left of your wealth---change.

Raise the Taxes! Pass the Ammunition!

2008-07-28T12:21:00.000-04:00

The mere mention of the word 'taxes' draws beads of sweat on the forehead, a feeling of anger and/or fear, and a tighter grip on the wallet. That being so. It's hard to understand why anyone would vote for a man who is on a mission to bring socialism to this country along with---quietly now---higher taxes.

Someone has calculated the cost of Senator Obama's flights of fancy to be about three trillion dollars: $3,000,000,000,000. [That's 12 trillion quarters; enough to reach from New York to the nearest Star in the void---you know, the environs of Hollywood.] Even Everett Dirkson [look him up] could be impressed by that. Higher Taxes and modern liberalism/socialism go hand-in-hand, and it's high time for the American voters to reject such thinking before a catastrophe occurs. Under the leaky umbrella brought to the national stage by Senator Obama, national bankruptcy and loss of any prestige left [after the Democrats have aided its destruction], we can prepare for being the poor, nearly toothless, self-restrained lion on the block.

One of the Senator's brilliant ideas is to tax the individuals earning $250,000 or more [earned income] per year a social security tax---albeit at a lower rate than the rest of us. I've got news for you Senator. You could tax those people 50% and you couldn't put a dent into the hardening demise of Social Security, because that's not where the problem is. [By the way, the President earns $200,000 a year, just below the $250,000 starting point for Senator Obama's scheme. Just noting a fact, friends. Just noting a fact.]

The entire Social Security structure is a house of cards. Some sensible ideas for shoring it up [for now, yes, but what about down the road?] are: private investment of part of the individual social security tax; ending the use of social security taxes by Congress in the general funds available to them; let Congress run the country on the rest of its taxation [which would take a great deal of effort to pare down bloated budgets and pork projects---hard maybe, but they were hired to work for us and not to constantly run for reelection]; make Congress begin to pay back the decades of borrowing from the social security fund; ease the burden of social security taxation on the average individual and the employer.

Social Security was originally meant to be only a small addition to a person's retirement years---not the only income which has to be large enough to live on: having annual increases, and continued mis-use of its funds to add to its current, inherent problems. Had Social Security remained true to it's original premise, it would now be very solvent, private pensions would be more commonplace, and families would be more together, helping each other. And oh yes, the consumer prices would probably be lower.

We can help the situation. Yes, we can. We can add serious and permanent federal tax cuts to the budget. Once again, Congress will learn that tax cuts lead to more jobs leading to higher tax revenue. Why do Conservative thinkers have to reinvent this wheel everytime they take office? Doesn't the Democrat/Liberal/Socialist brotherhood ever study and learn from history? Raising taxes never increases the tax collected over the long run. It positively stunts economic growth and job availability. Even St. John Kennedy understood this.

To speak about another Liberal having trouble is appropo. As everyone knows, the New York Times is Liberal, bordering on Socialist. Let's not talk about its obvious political bias, erroneous fact reporting, plagiaristic and fiction-writing journalists, and general arrogance. Let's just look at its falling revenue.

Ad sales dropped 11.9% in May, 16.4% in June. Second quarter profits fell 82 percent to $21,000,000. Income from continuing operations fell 5.5% for the quarter, while revenue fell 6 percent to $742,000,000.

Consequently, the Times has acted as all Liberals act. The New York Times will respond by raising the newsstand price of the newspaper from $1.25 to $1.50 per copy as of August. This is the second increase in a year. It doesn't seem to help matters does it? The editorial policy is still the same self-serving pontificate it's always been. As any clear thinker could tell you, raising the price to the consumer only leads to fewer and fewer sales. What's the Times to do when it raises newsstand prices to $2.50 a day? $10 on Sunday? I predict sales will continue to plummet to a point where the NY Times will become an historical oddity.

Personally, I stopped buying newsstand copies of many newspapers and magazines because the prices were not representative of the content. I could stand to pay 50 cents for the NY Times Crossword Puzzle---the only content I use, but I will not pay $1.50 to work it out. I can find puzzles a-plenty for free on the Internet. [Our local newspaper---Liberal of course---now costs 75 cents a day. This for a 'paper' that can be intelligently read in five minutes---including the comics. In this case, it's 75 cents for a crossword puzzle that can be found elsewhere.]

New adage: Do not arm the Liberal with more money, mosquito! He/She/It'll only buy more fly swatters!

Tiger by the Tail

2008-07-17T11:41:00.000-04:00

We have a serious problem here in the good old US of A. And I'm not necessarily talking about gas prices. It's a lot more than that.

The Democrat-led Congress is worthless. Anything they do worsens the problem, whether it be gas prices or the economy in general. Raise taxes! Subsidize! Go green and suffer! Let us run your industry [into the ground.]!

And now, they plan very little real action [as if they had already been doing things] for the next five and a half months---until the supposed Democrat President takes office. In a nutshell: they will then go about trying to socialize the US to its detriment, and throw money at everything in sight except the beleaguered Taxpayer---from whom the money will be taken.

Congress needs to approve oil drilling now. The states having reserves should permit drilling now. New refineries need to be built to handle the increased US drilling. By some estimates, the US has some 2.5 trillion barrels of oil on our own land/sea, and nearby the northern coasts and Canada have another 214 billion.

In contrast, Saudi Arabia has proven reserves of about 260 billion barrels and Venezuela has 80. So, you can see how easy it would be to become energy independent. The Middle East can sell its oil to Europe, and let them suffer high prices and damaged economies. Maybe we can be an exporter of oil to the beleaguered European and Asian countries. Let them become beholden to us in ways other than as their last resort protector.

In addition to all this, we need to build another hundred or so nuclear power plants---and without the lengthy delays brought on by the states and 'greenies.' American nuclear power is safe. No one has ever died because of an accident. Nothing has ever blown up at a nuclear plant. Plenty of safeguards are in place. Nuclear power is relatively cheap to produce.

And, of course, no explosion has ever greeted an agricultural plant or oil storage facility, or oil tanker truck, or chemical tanker or chemical plant or...... Right? Yeah, right!

With these efforts, cleaner coal, coal gasification, and moderate restraint, we can be energy independent for many, many years. Hundreds of thousands of new jobs could be created. Our gas prices will go down, and our energy in general will be cheaper. So will food items and so many other things. Our economy will jump up and run smoothly and efficently.

Congress! Stop trying to micromanage the country! We can do better without you. Just make laws to make our jobs easier, and otherwise stay the hell away from us.

What's so hard to understand about all this? We have to work together as one country united in the idea that things can be better, even greater in our lives. Our own, un-governmentalized, efforts will do it.

This aura of 'renewable' energy is so much claptrap. Wind power will never reach a usable or efficient status. And it blights the view worse than a power plant. Solar panels could be okay for individual homes, but they're still expensive and less than perfect. Electric cars and mini-cars with high mileage are okay for inner cities, but I wouldn't take one out on the Interstate where I might meet a semi or SUV. I'm waiting for some idiot to suggest a power plant run by batteries, or windmills on our SUVs.

Ethanol here and throughout the world is affecting food prices adversely. Too much product is being directed to too little fuel, and the amount of food available goes way down. Not only that, but the constant production of corn is going to ruin farmland in the long run. And quite frankly, I don't want my tax dollars subsidizing these efforts. If they were all that good and promising, private money would become available overnight.

A Democrat/Liberal Congress will do nothing about any of this. Those Congressman like to keep the citizens poor and needing money from Congressional programs. That's how they 'buy' a lot of votes.

And yet, in the name of 'change', many Americans will vote for the empty suit for the Presidency and the same-old-jerks for Congress. They'll get change all right, and there is some serious doubt we can afford to live or even live free until the next election.

Don't stay acquiescent! Stand up and count! We Americans have the power to protect our lives and those of our children and children's children with an intelligent vote. Don't waste it on cheap slogans with no meat. Clara, where are you when we need you?

Energy for the Masses

2008-07-11T14:24:00.003-04:00

I've been concerned about the US energy situation for many years, but my ideas have never been implemented. No surprise there.

We simply can't continue to rely on oil and gas from our ideological and physical enemies as we have been. We have to drill in and around the US for our own oil. We have to drill in Alaska wherever we can find oil, including ANWR [and that would use less than 1% of the area]. We have to drill in the upper central US, where deposits are huge. We need to concentrate on coal and its cleaner operation. We have to construct many new nuclear power plants.

Democrats, Liberals, Greenies, and whatever are preventing us from becoming energy independent. They block drilling virtually everywhere, they try to regulate coal fired energy into submission. They panic everyone about nuclear energy when they know very well it is safe and efficient. We do not operate power plants like Chernobyl.

I don't often do this, but I'm supplying here two links. One is to Family Security which gives a succinct explanation of how nuclear energy production works. And the other is an excellent essay on the need for nuclear power. Please follow these links. I think you'll be pleased at what you read.

Family Security an Introduction to nuclear energy.

Fortune Magazine an essay on the need for nuclear energy.

Health Care for the Millions

2008-07-01T12:20:00.001-04:00

This isn't complete. Just some thoughts about Health Care in the USA. And if you want details, talk to a lawyer, especially one in a political campaign. And this is based on the estimate of $12,106 now spent on average by each family for medical care [Kaiser Family Foundation.]

Let's expand on John McCain's ideas.

Everyone [usually the breadwinner] should get private insurance for health and dental care for his or her family---to cover children until they reach age 25, if they are still living at home. Employer's will no longer have to have health insurance for their employess. But when an employee succeeds in getting the health care insurance privately, the company should provide a subsidy of $1,500 to $3,500 each, depending on many factors between the employer and employee.

The Federal and State governments will provide annual tax credits [combined] of $3,500 [$2,750 federal; $750 state] for individuals and $7,000 [$5,500 federal; $1,500 state] for families.

Policy deductibles are not required, but can be chosen to reduce costs.

A standardized policy for health and dental should be set as a generous minimum. Additional sections can be added as the consumer wishes to pay for---rather like buying a basic car and adding options.

Uninsured costs will remain an itemized deduction, but with a higher percentage set-off.

Hospitals would continue to offer 'comprehensive emergency services' no matter how the individual is covered.

Hospitals would separate patients with medical needs better served by 'urgent care' with the same proviso.

A federal contract should be sent out to bid for a string of clinics to handle preventive care [Doctors would also have their own practices], and the medical care would be covered by insurance. The federal government would provide a specific subsidy for these clinics, not to exceed the actual costs.

Some illnesses would continue to be aided by specific charities and foundations. Other charities would help with major medical problems not covered by insurance.

Keep the VA system intact, with minor modifications as the above will necessitate.

Federal and State Medicare and Medicaid would be adjusted in light of the above.

Certainly, these are rough ideas. But rough ideas are always the prelude to specific ideas and then specific solutions enacted with care.

Just the thoughts of a strapped---but thinking---tax payer, but I like them better than plans of either candidate as is. It's vital to stay away from socialism. And there is plenty of opportunity for an individual or family to shuck some or every little thing in favor of self-pay. But when a 'no insurance' situation is chosen by anyone, the availability of public assistance is limited to those sections above for the hospitals. All amounts to be adjusted for inflation/deflation [Ha!] on a biennial basis.d Please feel free to comment and help me pull everything together so I can send the proposal to Congress.

Another in a series of articles of 'Better Living' for the trod-upon American taxpayer.

High Energy Prices, Our Bugaboo

2008-06-18T10:14:00.000-04:00

A recent essay by Rick Moran in Family Security Matters---'Blame for High Gas Prices? Look in the Mirror, America!'---says a mouthfull regarding high energy prices.

Mr Moran states "Every red blooded American who has voted over the past 30 years - Republican and Democrat - for federal lawmakers who promised, in effect, that this day would come bears the primary responsibility for high gas prices.'

It's no secret now that we have fallen victim to our own rush to the Liberal causes of 'no more drilling', 'no new refineries', and 'no new nuclear plants' as the salvation for the planet.

Well, such decisions do little for the planet, but they wreck havoc with our energy prices. Because of these actions, we must import more and more oil from foreign countries---most of whose governments and citizens hate us. Global oil speculators also run up the prices with their 'intelligent' forecasts based on the continued and mistaken Liberal belief that we 'start wars to grab oil.'

Moran goes on: "We, the voters, also made conscious and deliberate choices in electing everyone from members of Congress to local selectmen who would oppose the building of new refineries. 'Not in my backyard' was the refrain of the last 30 years which has seen exactly zero refineries built in this country and 50 refineries closed down."

These elected officials are making horrible decisions that are burying us with high energy and related food and consumer goods' costs. And despite the havoc, they continue to ply their power in preventing the construction we desperately need. Oil drilling in Alaska? The new proposals include only a tiny portion of the 'pristine set-aside' up there. But, the drillers still get stymied.

Nobody now wants to live near a nuclear [or nuculer, depending on who you're listening to] power plant, and the comics and pundits continually ply us with jokes and estimations about the 'danger' of nuclear power. But where is this danger? No one has ever been killed in the US by a nuclear plant accident---even the one at Three Mile Island. Safety is a major concern of plant operators, and they---and the government overseers---keep the concern up to date with the latest technology. We always said of the Russians: if you tell a big lie often enough, people will begin to believe it. So it is with nuclear power.

Now we know that we have huge oil deposits in our north central and western states, South Dakota and Montana in particular. Moran states: "A word about the Bakken field which has been receiving some press lately (for obvious reasons): There is a huge disparity between government estimates of how much oil is under South Dakota and Montana and how much there is according to independent energy groups. The government says 21 billion bbl [only 150 million bbl in 1995!]. Other scientific studies put the number at 500 billion bbls. As contrast, Saudi Arabia has proven reserves of about 260 billion bbls." And yet we do next to nothing---except moan.

How can ignore such data? Why aren't we drilling now, or at least setting the process in motion. We need to reduce the need for foreign oil to such an extent that the global prices go way down, and our enemies can't blackmail us again. Such a goal helps most countries in the World and not just us.

This reality blame game doesn't necessarily reach the White House unless you're clamoring for better leadership. Congress is still the body that makes the laws. And local government, right down to townships and villages, also hamper the oil-to-gas process regularly. These are the people you have to replace. Replace them with new individuals who think as we do that energy costs are too high, and we have the solutions here in our own backyards.

Moran concludes: "But times change. The world is changing. And unless we can find a way to balance legitimate concerns about the environment with our need for more oil, the present situation will continue and get worse. This means that environmentalists have to acknowledge that the policies they support are leading us to ruin while the pro-drilling crowd must acknowledge that we can't go drilling everywhere there's a drop of oil to be found."

Such a two tiered solution along with nuclear power would favorably effect our energy prices and protect us from foreign intrigues and continually unbelievable associated costs in our daily lives.

I might add that wind power, solar power, and hydrogen power are all notably good for our environment and populace, but they will never supply anywhere near our daily needs. They will always remain loud, unworkable, Liberal solutions for the long haul. I still think the Liberals believe we should build power plants operated by giant batteries. Such an idea seems logical to their way of thinking. Go figure!

Let's elect people who will do the hard, but right thing regarding energy, and not people spouting 'Hope'ful generalities.