We're Not To Blame

STOP OBAMA'S INTERNET TAKEOVER & CENSORSHIP

2012-01-18T10:19:00.001-08:00

Don't be to blame... Contact Your Members of Congress NOW.

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE

2011-10-17T07:39:00.000-07:00

It's been over seven months now since I put this blog into hibernation and it's still in hibernation, but I couldn't help dropping in to observe that some things never change.

Obama is not to blame for the jobs situation, the economy or Solyndra. Holder is not to blame for Fast & Furious. Congress is not to blame for failing to get anything done or coming to grips with what ails the nation.

I always own up to MY mistakes, but it's a fact that there is not one politician or government employee who will ever stand up and say, "I'm sorry, I made a mistake. Let's work together to correct it."

Yeah, I know...what am I smoking?

WHO IS TO BLAME NOW?

2011-08-07T11:45:00.000-07:00

Everybody is saying they are not to blame. Fingers are wagging in the White House while the Democrats blame the Republicans, the Republicans blame the White House, the Tea Parties blame all three and S&P blames everybody.

Who do YOU blame? See the poll.

TO THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED WITH HONOR

2011-05-30T08:00:00.000-07:00

THANK YOU

HIBERNATION

2011-03-12T14:01:00.000-08:00

Over the past weeks, I've been inundated by requests to return to the former daily format of BURNEY MOUNTAIN HERMIT. Upon great reflection and consideration, I have decided to do just that. Unfortunately, the reason I changed that format was lack of time.

I so much enjoy writing these blogs. But, push is coming to shove when it comes to available time. And, so it is that that I have decided to put this blog into hibernation in order to squeeze out enough time for the daily HERMIT. At some point in the future, I may be able to resurrect this blog; only time and circumstance will tell.

Until then, enjoy my other blogs: BURNEY MOUNTAIN HERMIT, MY AMERICAN OPINION, ZINGER, & TODAY'S BEST EMAIL.

Hasta la vista.

YOU'RE TOO FAT

2011-03-11T04:00:00.000-08:00

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I get more than a little ticked off when I hear those words, "You're too fat." Frankly, it's none of their damned business how much I weigh. It's none of their business what I eat or what I drink or how much exercise I get. This is my body, my bones, my skin.

I'm no more to blame for what you look like than you are for what I look like.

No one, including Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, has any right to tell me what kind of car to drive, how much I must weigh, or what doctor I must visit. I am sick and tired of other people and our government sticking their damned noses in my business.

I've had enough. ENOUGH!

HOW DEMOCRATS THINK

2011-03-09T07:36:00.000-08:00

We're still mired down in the budgetary battle in the halls and on he floor of Congress. The Republicans want to trim $61 billion off the budget and the Democrats want to trim only $4.7 billion. There are three issues I have with all of this.

First, and most important, we're $14 trillion in debt and climbing. $61 billion is about .004 of that amount. $4.7 is .0003 of that amount. In either event, we're talking chump change here and we're hearing nothing but anger, nasty words and endless rhetoric.

Second, neither party is talking about how much we will be spending with their proposed cuts and whether or not we will have enough revenue to cover that amount, whatever it is. So, that tells me we're still spending more than we're raking in, or they'd be talking about it.

Now, those are two major issues, it seems to me. The third and more significant issue is that the Democrats are digging in their heels on that $4.7 billion figure. Ladies and gentlemen, this country spends that much money every single day. The Democrats think they can placate the people who are sick and tired of the endless debt and the unending spending by shaving one day's spending out of 365. That's how they think.

Tell that to one of the 20% of the people in this country who are unemployed or under-employed. Tell that to the people who live below the poverty line. Tell that to the business man who is about to close the doors on a family business that's been around for 100 years. Tell that to the housewife who is trying to put food on the table with food costs going through the roof. Tell that to the truck driver who has to buy fuel.

Those idiots, Republicans and Democrats alike, need to get it through their thick heads that we mean business. We know why we're in the mess we're in, and it's because of financial mismanagement by our government as a whole and by Congress in particular. We're sick and tired of it. $61 billion for a cut is peanuts; $4.7 billion is outrageous.

Cut the damned spending, or get out.

GROSS INJUSTICE

2011-03-06T04:00:00.000-08:00

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Seth Daniel, an illegal immigrant from Cambodia, was involved with several other teens in the brutal beating and stabbing to death of a 15-year-old cerebral palsy victim. He got plea deal, served a short period of time in jail, and was released back into our society rather than being deported. Prison officials had released him into the custody of ICE, but ICE is under Court order to release anyone who is being detained for over six months while pending deportation.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) failed to identify more than 800 criminal alien convicts eligible for deportation before they were released from U.S. prisons, including “many” of “the most egregious criminal aliens, who pose a significant pubic safety risk,” according to a report by the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Illegal aliens murder 12 U.S. citizens every day.

Our government is to blame for this horrid situation. This is one more reason why we need to take our country back.

BRING GADDAFI BACK HOME TO U.S.

2011-03-02T04:00:00.000-08:00

There are those who want to bring Muammar Gaddafi to the United States to put him on trial for the Lockerbie airplane bombing. But, I happen to think we should bring him here for a far better purpose.

Obama seems to be losing his grip in the absence of Rhambo as his Chief of Staff, and Gaddafi would make an ideal replacement. He has charisma, he’s distinguished looking, he has an impressive resume, and he has said many times over that he admires President Obama as being the Muslim leader of the United States. Moreover, the absence of the iron-fisted Rhambo has prompted some of the White House Czars to wander; they need to be refocused and Gaddafi has the ability to command attention.

He would be an ideal interface between Obama and SEIU Union President Emeritus Andy Stearn. He would certainly be able to bring recalcitrant Senators and Congressmen back into line over ObamaCare issues and I’m certain he would take total control over the Congressional budget as well. The odds of ever seeing another Joe Biden gaffe would be slim and none.

The economy would most certainly kick into high gear, especially in the funeral industry. He’d be ideal to lead services in the new New York City mosque. I’ll guarantee you that, had Gaddafi been in the job two years ago, we would have won that Olympic bid.

Now, you might think that I’m being a loon, or that my sarcasm has taken an ugly new twist, but I think it would do the country a whole lot of good to be forced into military service and to do a few marches down Pennsylvania Avenue. I’ll bet he could trim the fat off of all Americans and make Michelle into an extremely happy woman. The price of gas would be no problem, because we’d all be riding camels.

I’m sure that, if you put your mind to it, you can think of more than a few good reasons of your own to have Gaddafi in the White House. He may not invite anyone over for a beer in the garden, but I’m sure nobody would mind.

And, as far as blame goes, I don’t know about you, but he could blame me for anything and I’d take it.

ARE WE A "SIT-DOWN" NATION?

2011-02-27T08:18:00.000-08:00

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When you stop and consider it, you have to agree that this nation no longer stands up for anything. We don’t stand up against violence along our southern border, we don’t stand up against illegal aliens crossing our borders and becoming burdens on our society and we don’t stand up against the Ahmadinejads and Jong-Ils of the world. Instead, we bury our heads in the inevitable quagmire of “political correctness” as we shuck and duck our way through challenges that we should be facing head-on.

It’s no wonder that we have lost esteem among other countries, nor is it a wonder that we have lost our own sense of identity and purpose as a nation.

Given the fact that our ship of state is floundering, we need to pause and ask ourselves just when the country started this downhill slide. Frankly, I think it started with George H.W. Bush and that it has been escalating itself ever since under Clinton, Bush II and now Obama. Obama seems to exemplify the problem, but he did not originate it. One thing is certain: neither Kennedy nor Reagan would have allowed this country to get itself into the mode that it is currently in.

Is it a healthy mode? One might argue that avoiding conflict at all costs is worth the price we pay. But, history has proven that the weak get trampled on and, if you are perceived as being weak, you’re asking for it. That does not mean that you have to be the bully on the street. Surely, we should be keeping our noses clean and out of the businesses of other countries except for the basic issues of human rights. But, we should not allow the bullies on the street to run all over us, either.

Deal from a position of strength. That is a philosophy I learned from an ex-wife and it has proven itself to be correct time after time. Others respect your position of strength and tend not to challenge it. In the course of human events, mutual respect should be the cornerstone of the day. We have allowed our perceived strength, gained at the close of World War II, to erode into perceived weakness and that is the reason why others do not hesitate to cross our borders illegally or to spit at us on the world stage.

As Americans, we have lost our pride as a nation by allowing the erosion of our national perception. We need to spend more time examining what is going on with our country and less time wondering whether or not Lindsay Lohan is going to end up in jail. It’s basically our responsibility because it is, after all, our nation, and we need to be the ones in charge of running it.

The next time we step into the voting booth, we need to be prepared to make our choices based on what is right for our country in the long run as opposed to the sheer emotion of the moment in time.

THE TEA PARTY IS ALIVE AND WELL IN WISCONSIN

2011-02-23T04:00:00.000-08:00

It’s been four months since the November elections. When that day was over, it was as if a big head of pressure had been deflated, what with the Tea Party and the fact that it had every single Democrat and liberal Republican as nervous as cats on hot tin roofs. The days leading up to that event provided growing and ominous tension. Looking back on those days, I suspect that most Obama supporters were surmising that the Tea Party days were finally going to be over.

Indeed, it seems to me that Obama, Reed, and Pelosi have attempted to move forward as if no Tea Party existed. They certainly have continued to spin, lie, cheat and grapple for more power as the last four months have gone by. But, the fact is that the Tea Party is very much alive and the American citizens who give it its impetus are still very interested in what is going on in Washington.

There they are in Wisconsin, damned Tea Partiers. 12% of the state’s work force is on strike refusing any benefit cuts, refusing copayments and demanding raises. They have been behaving badly, much like their counterparts on The Hill in Washington. They are refusing to listen to reason or to engage in meaningful discussion; instead, they are yelling and screaming like the stuffed pigs that they are. “Who cares what condition the state treasury is, who cares how many people are out of work, we want and we demand our pay and benefits.”

Were it not for the fact that the damned Tea Party showed up to represent the other side, they well could have won by default. Yeah, the Tea Party is there, those racist, sexist old fogies that don’t know shit from Shinola… they’re there. I guess the unions, the S.E.I.U. in particular, and the “former” ACORN members thought that the Tea Partiers had all gone home after the elections.

I guess they didn’t learn their lessons.

Let me set the record straight: WE did not authorize those state workers to get enormously high pay and benefits. WE did not create the financial crisis that Wisconsin, or the country, is in. WE are not the ones who ran up the national debt. But, WE ARE THE ONES who intend to see that the problem gets fixed and, if you guys in Wisconsin and on The Hill in Washington don’t want to be part of the solution, then get out of town and don’t come back until we’re finished.

We, the majority of the citizens in this country, whether we are Tea Party Members or not, want the damned problems fixed. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next Congress… we want the problems fixed now. And, we ARE the majority and, like it or not, we WILL prevail. If you want to have a say so in the process, quit your damned bellyaching and come to the table. Do it now, or shut up and get out of the way.

THE WEENIE IN THE WHITE HOUSE

2011-02-20T08:31:00.000-08:00

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I suppose we all knew what was coming when our President started his term of office by scuttling off to foreign lands and bowing to despots everywhere. Two years later, the world is a tinderbox, with North Korea, Iran and all all of the Middle East ready to erupt in full-scale war at any second. And, I suppose I shouldn't leave Wisconsin out of that equation.

We have a President who does not like to make the tough decisions, as demonstrated by the fact that public opinion had his back to the wall when he finally agreed to send more troops into Afghanistan. He is far more likely to hop onto Air Force One and leave the country during a time of crisis than to face up to it. In that sense, he is definitely not a leader, and the world needs a leader. We need a leader.

The radical Islamists point the finger of blame at the United States for the problems of the world. Using that as their justification, they seek to exterminate every last American, Christian and Jew and we do not have a President who is willing to stand up to it. We should be dealing with these situations from a position of strength, because strength is the only thing that is respected by these enemies of peace.

Does the man stand for anything? He has more postures on more issues than Carter has Little Liver Pills, (not the same Carter,). He says one thing and does another. He sticks his nose in where it does not belong and fails to stick his nose in where it does belong.

Let's face it. He's a weenie and, as long as he is in the White House, we're at risk.

THE BUDGET, ENTITLEMENTS & THE DEFICIT

2011-02-16T04:00:00.000-08:00

Excuse me, Mr. President, I know I’m stupid and you don’t want to waste your time with me, but I have a couple of questions.

First, I’d like to know why, if we’re not spending that $2 trillion or whatever it was that we blew on TARP and stimulus in 2009 and early 2010, why is it, sir, that our expenses are still UP in 2011? Would you mind telling me, in simple layman’s terms, where is all of this money going, anyway? Maybe you could just lay it out on a chart so we can all see it? Just give us a line-by-line explanation, without the spin, if you please.

Second, Members of Congress and Mr. President, there is a whole lot of flack floating around about cutting entitlements, mainly Social Security and Medicare. What I don’t really understand is, if entitlements have to be cut, how do we end up with ObamaCare? Isn't that a brand-new entitlement? Can you explain your rationale for that? The way I read it, this isn’t about redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor, it’s about shafting senior citizens so you can have your God-damned health care plan. So, fill me in; I’m all ears.Let me know how I'm wrong.

Maybe you wouldn’t mind explaining your $53 billion fast rail plan from nowhere to nowhere, while you’re at it.You really should re-fund that Alaskan bridge to nowhere, first.

Another major question I have is this: Your emissaries are out there saying that it is impossible to reduce spending in less than 10 years because it will cause all kinds of hell and we need to “cushion things.” If it only took you 2-1/2 years to ramp up spending to these horrible levels, how can it then be impossible to cut it in 2-1/2 years? I’m all ears.

Just as a side note, how did your illustrious Bernacke and Geithner team set it up so that GM could pay bonuses when they haven't paid us back yet? I don't mind them paying bonuses with their own money, but I sure as hell don't appreciate bonus money going out the door when they still owe us. Or, do we matter?

Our debt is at an all-time adjusted high in comparison to our Gross Domestic Product. Your Debt Commission has told the whole country that we cannot continue doing this. Just why is it that you have totally ignored what your debt commission is telling us? Either you appointed a bunch of incompetents to the commission, or their recommendations are not politically expedient for you. Which is it?

Have you considered taking a pay cut? The rest of America is either unemployed or making much less. How about it, Mr. President? Nancy? Harry? Any takers? Any at all?

My fellow Americans, don’t you get the idea that Barry, Harry and Nancy would like each and every one of us to empty what bank accounts we have left, sell our houses and cars, empty our wallets, and drive by the White House and throw it all over the fence? Isn't that what they really want?

SONIC ROXIO SOFTWARE SUCKS

2011-02-12T07:59:00.000-08:00

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Although you paid for it in the hidden costs of buying a computer, usually a Dell, Roxio software is a nuisance. After a few months, you get notice of an update, which you allow to self-install. Then the problem starts. Every time you start your computer, you get a message about UM.MSI installer not working. When you try to cancel the message or "X-Out," it just keeps popping back up; you cannot get it off your screen. It tells you there is a file missing.

Yes, you can give it the three-finger salute and get rid of it that way, but when you go to click your photo software, such as Corel, it will bounce right back.

No, you can't go to the Internet and download the file. If you have another computer with Roxio installed, you can find it, copy it, and put it on the original computer. Otherwise, they do offer some option of removing the "installer" and downloading a fix. However, when you go to remove the installer, you get that same UM.MSI message again and you're stuck.

In looking on the Internet, you can see that people have been pestered with this problem for several years. You would think that they would fix it, but they haven't. I sent them an email and got one of those canned replies, but no help. This is one piece of software and one company that belongs in the trash can. When they eventually go out of business, they'll probably blame the buying public. Dell and other companies that load this crappy software onto their computers should be ashamed of themselves.

THE AUDACITY AND THE HOPE OF THE HALF-WIT

2011-02-09T04:00:00.000-08:00

Every single last soul in this country is aware of the fact that we are spending ourselves into oblivion. The November elections were about Health Care, government intrusion into our lives, jobs, the economy and about spending. Our eminent President, outwardly catching the drift of the message in his rhetoric, has purportedly jumped on the bandwagon of spending restraint and reduction of the zillion dollar deficit. That’s what he is saying.

As he usually does after making such remarks, he is heading off into the exact opposite direction, now calling for spending $53 billion in government money on a high-speed rail system. Well, it may be that a high-speed rail system would benefit the country, but I hasten to suggest that if anyone in the rail industry thought for one minute that it would be profitable, private money would already be on the table to build it.

So, what is it all about? Why does he want to add to the deficit when the country wants to trim the deficit and why does he pick a high-speed rail system? Could it have anything to do with his cronies in the unions? Now let’s dwell on that question for one quick sentence or two. Obama crammed down ObamaCare on a nation that did not want it and then immediately exempted the unions. So, what do you think?

This grandiose plan of Obama’s will create jobs. I agree with that premise. Who will get the jobs? Union members will get the jobs, the ones who don’t have to abide by ObamaCare. The average American working stiff will once again get the shaft, and royally speaking.

Do you think the government is going to make one dime more on this project than they are making with AMTRAK? If this was about creating jobs, helping the economy, reducing dependence on foreign oil, and maybe making some money, don’t you think it would be better spent on nuclear reactors?

How can we reduce our debt by even a paltry trillion dollars if we keep adding spending: $40 billion here, $50 billion there, $50 billion everywhere?

Just to show you that he is in outer space when it comes to what Americans really want, his Administration is now geared toward making low interest loans to states that are facing serious financial problems. Although that would help the states, sStop and think about that one for a moment. The biggest problem that most states have is the funding of pension plans. Who are the members of pension plans? Union members. So, he lets the states off the hook, takes more money out of the treasury right now, (even if it is ever paid back), the states don’t learn their lessons to bring their spending under control, and you and I end up holding the well-known bag yet once again.

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it dozens of times. WE are not to blame for the ugly mess this country is in, but Washington dipshits like Barack Hussein Obama are.I get so mad... so mad that I could just cuss.

WHO'S TO BLAME FOR SUPER BOWL?

2011-02-06T09:36:00.000-08:00

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Well, neither team should be in the game, as far as I am concerned. But, there they are, the Steelers vs. the Packers.

I think that the problem originated with the American Tea Party. The Tea Party, as you know, has been pushing for less government spending and they were very influential in the November election results. This all makes it difficult for Obama or Geithner or Bernanke to bail out and take over a football team this year. So, this is what we get.

Personally, I think the Seahawks should have been there, or maybe the Buccaneers.

THE LIST BEGINS

2011-02-03T17:40:00.000-08:00

Here's how your Senator voted on Obamacare repeal:

Alabama: Sessions (R-AL), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Alaska: Begich (D-AK), Nay Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Arizona: Kyl (R-AZ), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Yea
Arkansas: Boozman (R-AR), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Nay
California: Boxer (D-CA), Nay Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Colorado: Bennet (D-CO), Nay Udall (D-CO), Nay
Connecticut: Blumenthal (D-CT), Nay Lieberman (ID-CT), Not Voting
Delaware: Carper (D-DE), Nay Coons (D-DE), Nay
Florida: Nelson (D-FL), Nay Rubio (R-FL), Yea
Georgia: Chambliss (R-GA), Yea Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Hawaii: Akaka (D-HI), Nay Inouye (D-HI), Nay
Idaho: Crapo (R-ID), Yea Risch (R-ID), Yea
Illinois: Durbin (D-IL), Nay Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Indiana: Coats (R-IN), Yea Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Iowa: Grassley (R-IA), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Kansas: Moran (R-KS), Yea Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Kentucky: McConnell (R-KY), Yea Paul (R-KY), Yea
Louisiana: Landrieu (D-LA), Nay Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Maine: Collins (R-ME), Yea Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Maryland: Cardin (D-MD), Nay Mikulski (D-MD), Nay
Massachusetts: Brown (R-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Nay
Michigan: Levin (D-MI), Nay Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Minnesota: Franken (D-MN), Nay Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay
Mississippi: Cochran (R-MS), Yea Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Missouri: Blunt (R-MO), Yea McCaskill (D-MO), Nay
Montana: Baucus (D-MT), Nay Tester (D-MT), Nay
Nebraska: Johanns (R-NE), Yea Nelson (D-NE), Nay
Nevada: Ensign (R-NV), Yea Reid (D-NV), Nay
New Hampshire: Ayotte (R-NH), Yea Shaheen (D-NH), Nay
New Jersey: Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
New Mexico: Bingaman (D-NM), Nay Udall (D-NM), Nay
New York: Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay Schumer (D-NY), Nay
North Carolina: Burr (R-NC), Yea Hagan (D-NC), Nay
North Dakota: Conrad (D-ND), Nay Hoeven (R-ND), Yea
Ohio: Brown (D-OH), Nay Portman (R-OH), Yea
Oklahoma: Coburn (R-OK), Yea Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Oregon: Merkley (D-OR), Nay Wyden (D-OR), Nay
Pennsylvania: Casey (D-PA), Nay Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Rhode Island: Reed (D-RI), Nay Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay
South Carolina: DeMint (R-SC), Yea Graham (R-SC), Yea
South Dakota: Johnson (D-SD), Nay Thune (R-SD), Yea
Tennessee: Alexander (R-TN), Yea Corker (R-TN), Yea
Texas: Cornyn (R-TX), Yea Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Utah: Hatch (R-UT), Yea Lee (R-UT), Yea
Vermont: Leahy (D-VT), Nay Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Virginia: Warner (D-VA), Not Voting Webb (D-VA), Nay
Washington: Cantwell (D-WA), Nay Murray (D-WA), Nay
West Virginia: Manchin (D-WV), Nay Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay
Wisconsin: Johnson (R-WI), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Nay
Wyoming: Barrasso (R-WY), Yea Enzi (R-WY), Yea

Now you know who to vote against in 2012.

WE ARE AT RISK: OBAMA’S INTELLIGENCE FAILURE

2011-02-02T04:00:00.000-08:00

Remember back when a few planes got commandeered and steered into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania? It may seem like it was 200 years ago, but it just happened 9-1/2 years ago. That was right after George Bush took office, if you might recall correctly. And the resulting investigations confirmed that Clinton knew, or should have known, that the attack was in the works. An intelligence failure failed to pass the message on to Bush in such a manner that he understood and could react to the threat.

Here’s Egypt, all of the sudden blossoming out into protests and demands for a change in government. Here’s our intelligence community, again caught flat-footed; this time, we all know that Obama has been anti-CIA from the git go. And, when the uproar started in Egypt, we had every Administration official on the planet weighing in on what they thought was going to happen, because no one really had the slightest idea of who the players were.

Does this point to another disastrous intelligence failure? Doesn’t it make you wonder what is in store for us on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, September 11, 2011? Do you think that anyone in the intelligence industry is legitimately working on this problem? Yeah, I hope so, too.

Obama has created the atmosphere that sets us up for intelligence failures by going after intelligence agents and trying to get them charged, tried and convicted of war crimes. Yes, we are told that he has backed away from that stance, but I submit that the damage was already done. What undercover agent in his right mind would really want to stick his nose into Iran, North Korea or any country in the Middle East if he or she felt that their career and reputation were at risk under current Administration policy?

I feel that Obama has done more to put our country at risk than any President in the history of the nation. Furthermore, I suspect that he is aware of the ramifications and has chosen to do so anyway.

Why didn’t we know that Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan were on the verge of political revolt? Why were we not prepared for what has happened? If we couldn’t figure this stuff out, how can we successfully deal with the radical Muslim threat to the security of our nation here at home?

Well, we certainly know who is to blame here. Now, what are we going to do about it?

CUTTING: SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, VETERAN’S BENEFITS

2011-01-30T04:00:00.000-08:00

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Slice the cost of government by 50%. Each and every Department, including Congress and Administration, gets cut by 50%. They need to show us that they are serious. Get rid of the dead wood. Cut lavish spending on things we don’t need and things that are ridiculous. Only the prisons and the Supreme Court go untouched. At the same time, keep the level of spending on front-line services intact.

Does this mean we have to cut a lot of high-paying jobs in Washington and shift our spending to actual provision of service to the American public? Yes, let’s empty a lot of those high-rent government office spaces. Let’s bring some troops home from places where they are not needed and let’s get rid of a whole slew of officers while we are at it. We can keep the troop levels as they are and significantly cut expenses at the same time.

Until they do these things, they’d better leave Social Security, Medicare and Veterans benefits alone. They have no right to saddle the people who use these services with the costs of repaying a debt that was created by gross negligence and horrible mismanagement. We’re not the ones to blame here; they are.

It’s just that simple. Cut the government and cut costs by 50%... and then we’ll talk about some adjustment of these benefits.

JOE WILSON TOLD IT LIKE IT STILL IS

2011-01-26T04:00:00.000-08:00

A year ago, Joe Wilson stood up in the House of Representatives during the State of the Union speech and accused President Barack Hussein Obama of being a liar. He was correct on that occasion and nothing has changed.

I am at a total loss to understand those who now contemplate that, since the November election debacle, Obama is moving to the right and we can believe his new rhetoric. This guy has never told the truth about anything to anyone at any time. He is a pathological liar and a dedicated manipulator. His chief accomplishment in politics has thus far been standing up in the Illinois Legislature during key votes and voting, “Present.”

He lied about Wright; he lied about all of his past associations. When Americans questioned whether or not he really was born in the United States he gave us the finger; whether or not he is a citizen no longer is the issue, your right to know IS the issue, and he wins. So there.

He lied about what he was going to include in the ObamaCare bill. He lied about government money going to pay for abortions. He lied about “transparency.” He lied about his relationship with "ACORN." He looked you and me straight in the eye and told the nation we were spending too much money and he turned right around and sucked Congress into an $800 billion “stimulus” bill that has lined everyone’s pockets except yours and mine.

He has flagrantly violated the law by having his own Executive Branch enact rules and regulations that Congress has refused to enact. Take Cap & Trade, for instance. That issue is, rightfully so, dead in Congress, but Obama is maneuvering EPA Rules and Regulations to make it a reality anyway.

This is the kind of guy who drives down the road, signals a right turn and steers left. He’s now telling the nation that we need to quit spending and to create jobs. He’s been saying that for two years and has taken no steps to accomplish either. As a matter of fact, if you remember correctly, this is the guy who bragged about the statistics that showed that his Economic Recovery Act programs were creating tens of thousands of jobs and, when it turned out that the government website containing the “statistics” had listed jobs being created in dozens of Congressional Districts that don’t exist, he shrugged it all off by saying that statistics don’t matter anyway.

Now you want to believe what this six-faced tap dancer has to say?

RNCC SENDS OUT COLLECTION NOTICES

2011-01-25T14:54:00.000-08:00

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NRCC

320 1^st St SE

Washington DC 20003

In re: Dun

You amateurs have a lot of guts sending out letters requesting contributions that have “SECOND NOTICE” printed on the outside like a collection notice from a finance company. Now, I suppose, my mail lady figures I’m a deadbeat who doesn’t pay his bills. What comes next, Guido in a black limo?

You talk about all of the seats YOU won. You didn’t WIN a damned seat; WE gave you those seats to get rid of the idiots who held them and to take back our country. Now, YOU have to prove to us that you have the ability and intent to do your jobs the way they should have been done the last time you held the House.

You’re not going to get one dime out of me until 2012 and I see what you are going to do this year. If you step up to the plate the way you should have done before, I’ll gladly contribute. But, you need to show some class first, and quit sending out trash mail like this last piece.

WILL STATES DECLARE BANKRUPTCY?

2011-01-23T04:00:00.000-08:00

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The NEW YORK TIMES is reporting that “policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.”

Unlike the Federal Government, states are not able to print money to pay their way out of debt. Some states are so burdened with debt and obligations to employees that it is impossible for them to work their way out; obviously, this is due to poor fiscal management, both past and current. Added to this problem is the fact that the states cannot issue bonds at favorable rates, because potential bondholders are afraid they will not get paid or will not get paid on time. The fear of destabilizing the municipal bond market with the words “state bankruptcy” has the bond markets watching closely.

Theoretically, a modification to the Constitution may be necessary to accommodate state bankruptcy. Such bankruptcy would not eliminate debt, but would restructure it and would allow states to renegotiate pensions and government wages.

It appears to me to be part of the American culture to run up all of the debt that we want and then to run from the consequences by finding a way out of repayment. It’s the same culture that infests Washington, where they enact laws without reading them and then shuck and duck when things go bad.

And, who is to blame for that?

THE TRAGEDY OF BRIAN AITKEN

2011-01-22T18:57:00.000-08:00

Brian Aitken was an entrepreneur and a media consultant who is now incarcerated in a New Jersey prison for seven years for obeying the law.

He was in the process of moving back to New Jersey from Colorado. He had three handguns and he was concerned about complying with the law when making the move, so he contacted the New Jersey State Police who properly advised him to unload his weapons, lock them and then lock them in the trunk of his car. He complied.

Once in New Jersey, he stopped by his mother’s house. Concerned about his mental state because he was going through a divorce, she called 911 after he left her place to continue his journey, thought better about it and hung up. Police responded anyway and she related her concerns. They contacted Aitken on his cell phone and asked him to return to his mother’s house, which he did. They subsequently searched his car and discovered his handguns and then arrested him for unlawful possession.

Once in court, the Judge disallowed testimony about the fact Aitken had contacted the State Police to determine how to legally move the guns. The Judge also disallowed testimony about his searching the web for the law. The Judge also ruled that the term “moving” as applied to his transport of the guns from Colorado to his new home in New Jersey had not been met. He was subsequently sentenced to seven years in prison,

It should be mentioned that Aitken had no prior record. He had taken cautionary steps to comply with the law in the move from Colorado to New Jersey. Had he gone directly to his new home and dropped his guns off there, he would evidently have been okay, but he instead opted to visit with his mother enroute. As I understand it, the Judge is an anti-gun freak.

What in the Sam Hell is this country coming to?

WHAT’S BEHIND THE “FAIRNESS DOCTRINE?”

2011-01-19T04:00:00.000-08:00

On the face of it, the “Fairness Doctrine” sounds fair: opposing views on politics, religion and government deserve an opportunity to be heard. I think we would all agree on that as a premise in free speech, print and broadcast media.

No so quick. I’m going to switch for a moment to ObamaCare. There is not a sane soul in the country that wants ObamaCare. Yet, our illustrious government, led by our illustrious President, saw to it that ObamaCare became a “cram down;” they crammed it down our throats whether we wanted it or not.

Well, this “fairness doctrine” issue is the same thing.

The liberals have discovered that no one wants to listen to them. They even launched their own network, which has gone nowhere. How can you sell advertising when no one wants to listen? What these guys want to do is to herd everyone into a giant coliseum and start broadcasting the liberal agenda over loudspeakers until everyone there has become indoctrinated. That’s how they did it in the Soviet Union and that’s how they did it in Germany.

The airwaves are free. People can listen to opera, symphony, bluegrass, rock, pops, news radio, NPR, religion, and liberal or conservative radio. The fact that most people are listening to conservative talk radio and very few are listening to liberal talk radio just frosts the gizzards of the left wing.

In short, we’re to blame for the ills of the nation because we refuse to listen to and adhere to the liberal agenda. That’s why the subject is being talked about in the halls of Washington yet once again, because Pelosi, Reid and their pals want to silence the conservative voice. They see it in a more practical light; if they require broadcasters to give equal airtime to their liberal views, broadcasters will stop their conservative programming because they won’t be able to sell any advertising while the liberals are on the air.

You might think that this is a figment of my imagination, but you also know they are doing everything possible to shut down bloggers. The only reason they are not going after the newspapers is that the print media is already in the pocket of the liberals. The fact that sales of newspapers is drastically down underscores my argument; the few conservative news outlets still around seem to be holding their own quite well.

So, the fairness doctrine is not about assuring the freedom of speech at all; it’s about controlling what information the people are allowed to hear, just as ObamaCare is about controlling what type and quality of medical service you can get.

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In a side bit of news, British Petroleum… you might remember the guys who caused that giant oil spill in the Gulf… has always been close to the Russians. In fact, BP has been engineering Iran’s oil fields for years and the Iranians have been selling their oil to Russia. Now, BP is selling out to Russia; in a very low key announcement over the holiday, BP says it is selling the bulk of its corporate stock to them. Now, I ask you: when BP refuses to cough up monetary damages for what happened in the Gulf, are we going to sue Russia? Think about that the next time you pull into a BP ARCO station to gas up.

NRA MEMBER DISCUSSES TUCSON TRAGEDY

2011-01-16T11:52:00.000-08:00

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Too often, when there is a shooting or tragedy involving a gun, the fingers of blame immediately point to those of us who legally own and operate guns. Many of us are members of the NRA and/or other gun organizations and we are automatically assumed to be behind the misfortune in some sinister way. The talk is always about that "nasty NRA," or the "ugly gun lobby." I guess they spontaneously feel that anyone who owns a gun is a crook, murderer or terrorist.

Very rarely, if ever, does a reporter or talking head come to a legal gun owner, a member of the NRA, to ask us how we feel about these terrible events. What is our position? Who is to blame? How do we stop these things?

Let's just start with the premise that from now on, guns are illegal. Will that stop shootings? No. Thugs and mental cases will still have guns or access to them. Then there are knives, baseball bats, slingshots and other weapons of convenience that can be used to inflict bodily harm or death. The truth is that the crime rate goes down when gun ownership goes up.

Every single one of us who is a member of the NRA, or who is otherwise a responsible gun owner, dreads the day when we might have to use our weapons for something other than hunting or target shooting. Those of us who carry concealed weapons do so not with the hope that we will have the opportunity to use the gun and become a brave hero, but with the hope that the gun will never have to come out of the holster to save a life or stop a crime.

So, what is the answer? Well, we gun owners all agree that anyone who owns a gun should have the training in how to safely use it. We sponsor shooting events and safety events designed to sharpen skills in gun safety and use. We all look at the guy who uses a gun to commit a crime or who brandishes his gun whenever he gets ticked off about something as being someone who needs to be punished and their actions stopped. While it is totally illegal for felons to have access to or own a gun, the majority of gun crimes are committed by felons.

There comes a point when the restrictions you place upon gun ownership in order to reduce the possibility that a crook or terrorist or murderer or nut case might get a gun and use it in the commission of a crime, interfere with the rights of a legitimate, law-abiding gun owner. You can make it illegal for a mentally deranged kook to have a gun, but that does not mean that the kook cannot get a gun and use it, and it does not mean that a legitimate gun owner won't suddenly go around the bend and and start shooting. But, those general rules apply to knives and beer bottles, too.

We are all sick about Tucson; there's not a one of us who is jumping for joy. Yes, the guy should have been under psychiatric evaluation. No, he should not have been able to purchase the Glock at a legal gun store but, given his mental state, he probably would have gotten one illegally anyway.

I could be glib and suggest that all law-abiding citizens carry guns; if someone had been there with a weapon, they may have been able to shoot the guy before he killed and wounded so many people. He may have thought twice about committing the crime if he knew, or had reason to suspect that he would be surrounded by gun toting citizens. In fact, that is probably the real answer, but I don't suggest that everyone runs out and gets a gun, either; some people just can't handle the gun or the responsibility that goes with it.

What we do need is better ways to identify potential problems and better ways to deal with them. This applies not just to gun ownership, but to behavior in general, because we could be talking about a stabber or a karate expert or someone else who has "lost it." If we encounter someone who brandishes a weapon, he should be reported. If we suspect criminal activity, we should report it. We have to stop "not getting involved" because the guy next door just might be a terrorist or kook and who is going to know unless we say something to the authorities?

In closing, we gun owners are just as unhappy with these crimes as everyone else is. We are not to blame for the events; society in general is, and the social fabric of our society has been worn thin by a multitude of factors. So, we have to be alert and we have to get involved.

WE ARE NOT FALLING FOR THIS, ARE WE?

2011-01-13T07:27:00.000-08:00

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For years, every time you tried to discuss anything on a reasonable basis with a liberal, their reaction was to start screaming, yelling, name calling and attacking on a vile and vicious basis. When they did not get their ways, they got vindictive and downright nasty.

Now, we're getting right back in their faces and we're winning the battle.

What's their reaction to that?

After turning around and blaming us for the deaths and tragedy in Tucson, they are now telling us to tone it down, talk reasonable and be nice?

Bullshit. I can see right through this and I, for one, am not falling for it. It's just more of that "sit down and shut up" that we have been hearing ever since we started to stand up for ourselves.

Oh...and let's get rid of the Tea Parties while we're at it.

THE ENEMY MUST BE SILENCED

2011-01-12T04:00:00.000-08:00

Well, this is not going to be a nice, polite attack on some daily facet of life brought on by the enemy. This is going to be a rant, and they are the enemy.

People who tear at the fabric of our society are the enemy. People who openly avoid constraints of our Constitution are the enemy. People who subvert American ideals are the enemy. People who assault patriotism and its tenets are the enemy. People who bow to our country’s enemies are the enemy. And, people who do not have the guts or the courage to stand up and defend our country, its citizens, its Constitution and its foundation… are the enemy.

Politicians who refuse the will of the people are the enemy. The press and media who refuse to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth are the enemy. Judges who defy the Constitution and established law are the enemy. Members of government at any level who accept bribes and who enact regulations or legislate for their own personal gain are the enemy. And any person in the position of power, be it governmental, business or personal, who seeks to impress his will upon the will of the nation… is an enemy.

Now, I guess that doesn’t leave a whole lot of people who are not the enemy? Believe it or not, less than 30% of our citizens fall into the category of enemy, and yet they seek to tell the rest of us how to live our lives, how to vote, how and when to worship and when to go to the toilet.

The poor woman was barely on her way to the hospital when the enemy started to blame me and my friends for the tragedy. She lies in a coma in a Tucson hospital and the enemy claims to speak for her: guns injured her, right-wing extremists injured her, talk show hosts injured her, and Tea Party members injured her. But the son-of-a-bitch who pulled the trigger had a poor family upbringing; it wasn’t his fault!

Yes, he is a son-of-a-bitch and the people who seek to shift the blame from him to me and you and guns are the enemy. And we are at war right here in our own country. Anyone who does not understand that the enemy seeks to destroy us from within needs to step back and take a close look at what has happened to this nation in the last forty years and who is responsible for it.

I blame the enemy for our economy. I blame the enemy for our prisons being full. I blame the enemy for the immigration problem. I blame the enemy for our nation’s health costs. I blame the enemy for our civil unrest. I blame the enemy for fanning the flames of racism. I blame the enemy for allowing other nations to challenge us. Virtually every ill that has best our nation can be laid at the feet of the enemy.

Most of all, I am fed up… fed up with the enemy who has perpetrated these wrongs to our country and who seek to blame us for it. Shame on them. They are un-American bigots. They come from another planet and they should return there. Yes, the enemy is the target of my anger and I will take shots at them every chance I get in every blog post I write or speech I make.

It’s way past time for someone to shut the enemy up and to put them in their place.

MORE GUNFIRE; WHO IS TO BLAME?

2011-01-08T15:39:00.000-08:00

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The shooting of a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, a Federal Judge, and several others in Arizona has been solved, but the question remains as to why this tragic event happened. The anti-gun lobby will be quick to blame guns, but the simple fact is that guns don't have the ability to pull their own triggers. They will then counter that, if guns were not available in this country, the shooting could not have occurred. But, they will be the first to insist that knives are needed in the kitchens of America.

What I find incomprehensible is that there apparently were no citizens in the immediate vicinity who were carrying concealed weapons and who could have fired on the assailant and saved some injuries and maybe some lives. The fact is that in locations where larger percentages of citizens are carrying guns, the crime rates are lower. I agree that the shooter appears to have some mental issues and should not have had a gun in the first place, and I will be interested to find out where he got the gun. Still, sane people who are slicing onions suddenly go berserk and stab their husbands.

There is no justifiable excuse for pulling out a gun and shooting someone other than fear for one's life or self-defense. Yet, these things happen. My position is that having more trained and capable citizens carrying guns would reduce such violence. That's why I carry mine wherever I go, except where it's against the law. Thank God I have never had to use it; I don't want to. But, had I been there during this shooting, mine would have been out and it would have been used.

AMERICANS MUST NOW STEP UP TO THE PLATE

2011-01-05T04:00:00.000-08:00

I was watching Hannity on Fox last night. He had the freshman Representatives on for a discussion about where they want to take the 112th Congress. It was very refreshing. I’d like to have the same group back on at the same time next year and get an update on their views and how they were received and treated during their first year.

They have a real tough job ahead of them. The Pelosi regime has not left; it’s still intact and most likely will stay awake most nights while looking for ways to trip up the freshmen. They have high objectives and lofty ideals, but they are going to be facing long-time fellow Congressmen on both side of the aisle who are tainted by the processes that have become the culture of cavalier corruption in the Capitol.

The question on everyone’s mind is whether or the new kids on the block can stand up to the “resistance.”

To be honest about it, the situation as it exists in Washington is our fault. We’re the ones who were not paying attention to what was going on in the kitchen; it was that lack of attention that created the atmosphere and the opportunity for things in our nation’s Capitol to become what they have become. In recognizing that reality, it is our duty now to support these freshmen in every way possible as they go about their daunting tasks.

Already, the Pelosi regime is positioning itself against the looming repeal of Obamacare and the end of runaway spending. I’ve heard it said so many times that the Republicans are in charge of the House now and it’s up to them to right the endless wrongs that have been perpetrated over the past 22 years by Democrats and Republicans alike. But, that is an untruth. The fact is that it is up to US to police our government. They work for us; we do not work for them. And those who would obfuscate and refuse to get on the train need to be targeted for removal in 2012.

We simply have to accept that these problems are our fault and we now have to step up to the plate and clean things up. One thing is an absolute certainty: we cannot allow our government to get away from us again… ever.

NO ONE IS TO BLAME TODAY...

2011-01-01T04:00:00.000-08:00

BECAUSE IT'S A NEW YEAR!

THE MAGNIFICENT REPUBLICANS

2010-12-29T04:00:00.000-08:00

I was sitting somberly behind the keyboard at the close of 2010 and the precipice of 2011 and wondering what to write for a blog post between Christmas and New Years, when the phone rang and put me out of my quandary. Yes, it was the wondrous Republican National Committee asking for money.

Now, I am a registered Republican. That’s probably why they called me instead of James Carville. And, right off the bat, the lady goes into a pious speech about what great gains the Republicans made in 2010, how they have the Democrats on the run and how they are going to save the nation. Good God, have the dragon slayers on white horses finally arrived at the scene?

Let’s get a few things straight. Let’s have a few reminders about the illustrious Republican Party. Let’s go back to the years of George H.W. Bush who took over a nation that was almost ticking like a clock, single-handedly turned the economy upside down and got us into a battle in Iraq that did not accomplish what should have been accomplished: Hussein should have been finished off then. There’s four years of Republican shame, as far as I am concerned.

Let’s mention Bill Clinton, not because he was a Republican, but because he was a President who ended up with a Republican do-nothing Congress. Then, along came George W. Bush, a nice guy who single-handedly turned the economy upside down again and, with a Republican-controlled Congress led us into a war with Iraq that did not produce the weapons of mass destruction but did, finally, get Hussein. That was his chief claim of accomplishment, although his historians are also claiming he kept us safe from another massive terrorist attack. Well sorry, folks; he did not do that. Thousands of men and women in the CIA, FBI, NSA and DHS did that.

Then, along came Obama. When his term first started, what few Republicans were in Congress rolled over and played along until the fire in the belly of Americans started to bellow; they then started, with a small and timid voice, to protest what was going on in Washington. It was only when millions of Americans stood up and started demanding an end to “business as usual” and some fiscal responsibility in Washington that the Republicans finally started to stand up against the establishment.

But, it was the people who got this ball rolling, not the Republicans.

The distinguished Republican National Committee, in the meanwhile, was busying itself with junkets to topless bars and grope joints in southern California. They had absolutely nothing to do with the November election results; the Tea Party and millions of ticked-off Americans did, however. How the RNC can have the utter audacity to suggest that the Republicans have turned into guiltless leaders of the future simply because we Americans stood up and started putting an end to “business as usual” is beyond me.

Here’s where I stand. Depending on how the Republicans handle themselves during the next 12 months, I might consider helping them in 2012. They are not going to get one damned dime of my money until I see the color of their testicles, because their record in Washington over the past 20 years has been far less than venerable. As far as I am concerned, they are almost as much to blame for letting this country down as the Democrats. They are going to have to earn my trust back. If they don’t step up to the plate and do just that, they can say goodbye to their marvelous party as far as I am concerned.

IRS WISHES YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

2010-12-26T04:00:00.000-08:00

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Oozing out of the Washington cellars on Christmas Eve, no less, came the news that IRS refund checks will be delayed six to seven weeks this year. They blame it on the late vote in Congress, but here's my question: if we ended up with the same rates we had last year, why the big delay this year? Is it, like, they have to redo their charts? Do they use computers for this, or parchment paper?

Government keeps feeding us this steady diet of lies and bullshit; when will we learn?

HERE'S HOPING

2010-12-25T04:00:00.000-08:00

That those who are to blame didn't get a Christmas gift this year.

GESTAPO SEIZING INTERNET

2010-12-22T04:00:00.000-08:00

The United States Congress voted not to stick its Federal nose into the Internet. Courts have ruled that the Feds must stay out of it. Nevertheless, the Federal Communications Commission, under the direction of the Obama Administration, is now determined to seize control of the Internet.

You know and I know that the freedom of the Internet is directly responsible for allowing our country to communicate its ideas and beliefs through emails, blogs and websites. This freedom of the Internet and the exchange of ideas played a key role in the 2010 elections. Now, we have an agency that has proven itself to be grossly mismanaged, particularly when it comes to the media, poised to insert itself into the equation.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, a political appointee and Harvard Law classmate of President Barack Obama, is leading the FCC’s charge for new powers over the Internet so it can enact a policy known as “net neutrality.” In reality, the policy will limit consumer choice while granting the federal government unprecedented power over the Internet, power that could force bloggers like me to allow equal time to opposing views on my blogs, in spite of the fact that all someone has to do to find a view opposing mine is to Google “anti-American” and they will have a plethora of opinion available to them.

In recent months, the Feds have shut down thousands of websites without Court hearings or orders and without giving the websites and blogs the ability to defend themselves. The Feds have said they were terrorist websites or selling counterfeit items or violating copyrights, but they don’t have to prove that? New proposed powers will give them the power to shut blogs such as mine down, or to require me to pay a license fee or pass some bureaucratic test before I can voice my opinion.

These actions run contrary to every principle of liberty upon which this great country was founded. We, the people, need to make ourselves heard loud and clear again. This move by the FCC makes the Health Care Plan look like child’s play. If we don’t stand up and raise hell, we will be to blame for losing another aspect of our freedom, freedom fought and paid for with the blood of our forefathers.

Send an email to your Congressman today.

HOW'S YOUR DIET?

2010-12-19T11:23:00.000-08:00

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There must be 1,000 surveys out there with the same question: “Do you believe you are better off this year than at the same time last year?”

You have a tendency to answer that question in economic terms only, but I think it encompasses more than just that. The question might better be several questions: “How do you feel about the following aspects of your life this year compared to the same time last year?”

Economy
Jobs
National Security
Congress
The Future

In just those issues, we’ve been declining in confidence since about 2007, maybe even 2006. However, there are those out there in the audience who are saying they things are going to get better in 2012. Here’s my take:

While the stock market has been going up, I think the overall economy will stay the same or get worse in 2011.

The jobs situation is going to get decidedly worse in 2011, with unemployment reaching as high as 15% when state and local governments are forced to lay off in order to balance budgets and pay for federally imposed unfunded mandates.

National Security is very scary. Remember that we have a President who wanted to prosecute CIA agents over GITMO, who had his back pushed to the wall before he agreed to surge in Afghanistan and who bows to foreign leaders in subservience as opposed to standing tall and erect in a position of power. We have North Korea to deal with, as well as Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico and terrorism and it does not seem to me that we have leadership capable of handling all of these details.

Congress? Here’s a bright spot, I think, especially considering how the lame duck session is ending with the renewal of the tax cuts, the downright defeat of a pork-laden Omnibus spending bill, and the solid failure of the “Dream Act.” We haven’t gotten rid of all of the ugly crap in Washington, but I feel a breath of fresh air and the possibility that our message is finally getting through. Who knows, in 2012 we just might finally take our country back.

As for the future, I think it is overall going to get worse before it gets better, but I do think it will get better. Truly, the future is in our hands; it’s up to us. If we can continue to stay aware of what is going on in our country and to overtly speak our minds, we have a fighting chance of turning back the tide of government arrogance and elitism that has come so close to destroying our country. It’s like your weight; you can go weeks and months without being vigilant about what you eat but, when it comes time to trim off the fat, it’s difficult as all get out.

We have to stay vigilant.

DESPICABLE CONGRESSIONAL TRICKS

2010-12-15T04:00:00.000-08:00

While the nation has been focused on the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts and extension of unemployment benefits, the Democratic controlled Congress has been quietly working in the background to advance a new omnibus spending bill that calls for $1.1 trillion in new government spending for a total $3.5 trillion budget. The bill is 1,924 pages long, had not been read by anybody, and has some 20,000 earmarks. No wonder they are trying to rush this through both houses without the benefit of floor debate.

Plans are to ramp up the "business as usual" system and cram this through within the next three days.

The country has made its opinion of this type of activity clearly known. Poll after poll after poll shows that we are totally ticked off at a Congress that is enjoying an 11% approval rating. The November elections spoke volumes about how we feel about this government and what it is doing to our country. Yet, the Democrats who currently control both houses of Congress as well as the White House have made it abundantly clear that they do not give a damn.

You know, I'm sorry that I suggested that anyone vote for a Democrat at all. These guys are raping and pillaging our country; it is obvious that they intend to leave the country in a shambles when they exit in January. While I have been no lover of the Republican Party, the conduct being put forth by the Democrats right now is beyond the pale. Not only are they destroying the country, they are destroying the Democratic Party.

I think that the majority of Americans know fully well right now who is to blame for the mess we are allowing to engulf us. I think we're getting more angry every day; in fact, I think things are in danger of getting ugly.

ARE WE TO BLAME FOR THE CONSTITUTION?

2010-12-12T12:38:00.000-08:00

Judges throughout the country have taken the attitude that circumstances change and that, therefore, the Constitution has to be a fluid document that changes with the time. They reserve the right to interpret those changes for themselves.

The framers of the Constitution knew that things change with time and they provided that the Constitution could therefore be changed through the Amendment process; there is no language that authorizes the Judiciary to rewrite or alter the meaning of the Constitution through a contemporary interpretation. After all, the function of the judiciary is to apply the Constitution as it stands and the function of the legislative branch is to write the laws in conformity with the Constitution.

The Constitution is ours, not theirs. It belongs to the governed and not to the government. Yet, there are those in all three branches of government who look sternly down their noses and seize for themselves the right to tell us what the Constitution says or should say. It's almost as if they blame us for the Constitutional dictates that get in the way of their individual agendas.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ENIGMA

2010-12-08T04:00:00.000-08:00

In my day, say about 12 years ago, if you were on unemployment you had to file a weekly report showing at least three people at three different jobs you applied for and what the results were. These days, all you have to do is say that you have been looking for work. Today, you have the Republicans pushing for an end to extensions for unemployment compensation and you have Democrats insisting that everyone be covered until the end of time.

I firmly believe that every person who is out of work through no fault of his own and who is actively looking for a job should have some unemployment compensation. So, what’s wrong with asking them to show at least three places where they have applied, including a signature and company tax identification numbers? This could be subject to spot checks by the IRS, since they now have total power of the Gestapo anyway.

As a matter of conjecture, the day may be close at hand when an I.R.S. auditor moves in with you so he can keep you honest.

Would that not resolve all issues? Why is it not being done?

You have a President who wants to do away with tax deductions for charitable contributions. The fact is that the rich, the ones he is trying to soak in the Bush Tax Cut controversy, give substantial amounts to charitable organizations which in turn meet most of the demands for help for the poor and the unemployed. No one is going to get rich off of $400 or so per week in unemployment benefits; they need all of the help they can get. There’s no law that says debt collectors have to back off if you are on unemployment.

Yet, and I agree, there are those who will scam the system and not look for work as long as they have some income; by and large, they are left-wing extremists who are trying to change this country to their way of thinking. But, the answer is not to discourage charitable donations or to totally cut off unemployment extensions. The answer is to find out where the real need is and to address it.

I know that I am barking in the wind, but why can’t we set politics aside and work together to find realistic solutions to today’s problems? Those in charge are to blame because they just simply don’t care.

I must be right because there has been no progress...zero, zilch and nada, toward meaningful job creation programs in two years, not even after this "compromise" that doesn't address the problems, but simply kicks the can down the road. You know it and I know it.

ILLIGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM

2010-12-05T04:00:00.000-08:00

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Sometimes, with all of the crappy things our government has been up to… Sometimes, when they do these things in the face of public outrage, you just have to wonder what their game plan is. Here they are, just after having the worst shellacking in American political history, and they’re acting as if they are high potentates sitting on thrones and ruling the lower class.

In recent days, I’ve heard several people ask who the President is listening to. I don’t think he listens to Michelle… he certainly doesn’t listen to America. I’ve heard another several people come out and say they think Obama is doing what he feels is best for the country.

Let ME make it clear; Obama doesn’t do anything that doesn’t further his own distorted agenda. And all of the rest of the bimbos in his party conduct themselves in the same manner.

Traditionally, what happens in this country is that we Americans get our backs up about something and the politicians temporarily back down until we cool off, then they go ahead and do what they intended in the first place. What’s different now is that we Americans are not cooling off. Their old tricks of wearing us down and wearing us down until they get their ways are not working.

So, they have become dysfunctional. The fabric of their security blanket of self-created Washington culture is wearing thin. In the waning hours of their lame duck session, they are trying to get their way again, but the outcry of public opinion is not dying down. And, obviously, they don’t know how to deal with the situation.

Illigitimi non carborundum. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. We ARE taking back our country.

FEDS VIOLATE CONSTITUTION AGAIN

2010-12-01T04:00:00.000-08:00

The news in July was that the Obama Administration had shut down 73,000 blogs. That story got covered up and died almost overnight. The official line was that the blogs were using purloined video and copyrighted content illegally. Now comes the latest assault on the Internet: the Department of Homeland Security has shut down 82 websites for allegedly selling counterfeit merchandise and copyrighted materials.

My initial reaction is: What does Homeland Security have to do with this? Doesn’t this fall under the territory of the Justice Department?

Let me say that I don’t think that blogs or websites which use copyrighted materials without permission or sell counterfeit merchandise should be allowed to stay on the Internet. However, there is the presumed right of the accused to have a hearing or a day in Court. There is the right called Freedom of the Press. The government can’t take a person’s property without due process.

Once again, these principles have not only been violated, but Administration officials are trumpeting their successes. None of those who lost their blogs or websites had a hearing of any kind. Presumably, some obscure government official in some obscure office in some obscure building popped up and said that these guys were violating the law and needed to be shut down. Remember the hordes of automobile dealerships that were forced to shut down last year without hearings and without recourse?

Does this not sound like Marxism, Communism, and the Gestapo?

The manner in which these actions are being undertaken is totally against every brick in the foundation of our national liberties. If they can use Homeland Security to shut down a website, they can use the new Health Care Plan to deny you medical care because you voted the wrong way. Do you suppose that the next move will be to shut down Fox News?

OBAMA REALLY HAS BEEN A GREAT PRESIDENT

2010-11-27T21:12:00.000-08:00

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If you will recall, one of the first moves Obama made was to try and make the military pay for their own insurance and to make the injured GI’s coming home from active duty pay for their own medical care. If that doesn't make your Thanksgiving turkey come back up, nothing will.

How quickly we forget.

I KNOW OBAMA DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN

2010-11-24T04:00:00.000-08:00

There are millions of Americans out of work, many of them for two years or longer. The Obama Administration has done virtually nothing about the problem except to give it lip service. Add to this problem those who have been forced to take drastic pay cuts or reduced hours and you have a nation filled with people who wonder where their next meal is going to come from or whether they will have a roof over their heads when Christmas comes.

Maybe Obama doesn't give a damn, but I do. The traditional sources of help are facing a double whammy: they have dwindling contributions because people just don't have money to give, and they have an increasing need for the services they provide. I know that I may be asking you to give up a six pack or two of beer or the movies next week. But, on behalf of those who are hungry and/or without shelter through no fault of their own, I beg of you to consider dropping off a turkey or a few cans of food, even a $25 contribution.

God knows we are at each others' throats in this country, but this is the season when we need to reach deep into our souls and find the heart to share with others what little we have left to share.

To you and your family and friends, have a Happy Thanksgiving and drive carefully.

CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS DON'T GET IT, EITHER

2010-11-20T20:24:00.000-08:00

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All of us need to have charity in our hearts. But, sometimes being charitable gets downright annoying.

Three charities have recently sent me requests for donations and included either a nickel, a quarter or a dollar. These campaigns go out to millions of people at a time. How many people are there in this country, anyway? So, let's be conservative and say 10 million pieces of mail go out with a nickel in each; that's $500,000 in nickles plus the cost of the postage at 28 cents a piece...$2,800,000 for a total of $3,300,000 they spent trying to get my contribution. Oh, and plus printing costs and admin expenses, let's say a paltry $200,000 more, or $3,500,000 for one mailing. Some agencies mail three or four of these requests a year, or more, and to more people. If they send a quarter or a dollar... well, we're talking serious money here.

Take the American Cancer Society. They are certainly a worthy organization on the face of it; last year, I sent them $35.00 as a donation. This year, I received requests from the local organization, the county, the state, and national on a weekly basis! Then, I started to get telephone calls and, when I complained about why they are calling me, they try to tell me I gave them permission when I donated. As worthy as they may be, they are annoying beyond words and have been crossed off my list.

Now, they all seem to share names and addresses. All of the sudden, I am receiving 30 to 40 pieces of mail per week from charities I never even heard of. I've tried to shut this stuff off, to no avail. In some cases, I have contributed and then received a "thank you" along with a pleading, "Can't you give just $25.00 more? Think of the good it will do."

Frankly, they have worn out their welcome. If they have dwindling revenues, they have no one to blame but themselves. My money is now going to local charities only, the ones who don't have the kind of money it takes to run one of these national campaigns.

THEY HAD BETTER GET THE MESSAGE THIS TIME

2010-11-17T04:00:00.000-08:00

To make it short, we all know that the country is in an economic mess and that our debt is going to doom this nation unless we do something about it. We can’t do it by decreasing spending; we can’t do it by raising revenues. To get us out of this mess which, by the way we did not create, but they did, we need to do both.

Now comes the newly elected cavalry that we selected to lead us out of this mess and the first words out of the Republicans collective mouth is… “We’re not cutting defense.” Then, the Democrats say, “We’re not cutting entitlements.”

Well, if they’re not going to clean up this mess they created, I think they’re all going to be out on the streets looking for work in two more years, so something had better give.

The defense budget CAN be cut and cut plenty. Our young men and women in the military have proven over and over again that they can step up to the plate that our leaders in Washington seem so willing to back away from. And, we don’t need all of these entitlements; we need jobs. We need to get people back to work and we need to rebuild the national pride of America.

Our President is obviously unwilling to do anything. He has taken no steps to create jobs in the two years he has been in office and he just blew an opportunity in South Korea to create 90,000 jobs through a trade deal that he managed to scuttle at the last minute. He refuses to reconsider his damned health care plan and he is dead set on raising taxes.

All that this posturing amounts to is more of the same old bullshit politics that have flat incensed Americans in every corner of the country for the last two years. The newly elected talked a good game, as did those who managed to hang on to their seats. Now is the time to crap or get off the potty. They are required to stand up for America and do the job we elected them to do, or they will most certainly pay the penalty.

Let the dance begin and we’ll see who is still left standing when the music stops.

CAN ONE MAN BRING DOWN OUR COUNTRY?

2010-11-14T04:00:00.000-08:00

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The time has come when one man has enough power in this world to bring down governments, cause international economic chaos, and ruin lives. Even more unacceptable is the fact that this individual has chose to do just those things.

George Soros openly admits to having brought four countries to their knees. He says that, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, people started referring to Russia as being Soros' Russia. He has claimed the destruction of the Kenyan government and economy, among other things. More recently, Soros has set his sites on the destruction of the government of the United States, and he has openly said so. He intends to use his powerful influence on the media, the unions and politicians in this country to cause economic disturbance, citizen unrest, and a growing dissatisfaction with our central government.

He also also made no bones about wanting Glenn Beck off the air. Beck has recently been connecting the dots to the various organizations and associations that are owned and operated by Soros, all with seemingly benign names and professed patriotic objectives. This has raised the blood pressure of Soros to the point that he has called upon various Jewish organizations to denounce Beck and demand his firing. Before airing these latest connections, Beck turned his information and research over to the legal beagles at Fox and had them thoroughly go through the material to verify its authenticity.

One of the stories is about how Soros as a young Jewish boy got his start in life by pretending to be a Christian and helping to send his Jewish neighbors off to death camps, a biographical fact to which Soros Sorrows camp and Soros never loses. In fact, Soros says he gets a kick out of doing these things and watching the result, which he himself has admitted in his writings. The Jewish organizations are complaining that Beck's outing of this information, already in the public realm, is reprehensible.

Now, we have open warfare against Beck by those organizations and Soros. The man is bound and determined to bring our country down. He admits it. He practically owns the unions in this country and many of the politicians. There is already national unrest and only 17% of Americans think Congress is doing its job satisfactorily; the trap may already be ready to spring. According to Beck, one of the methods employed by Soros is to get those in the position to do so to print money and destroy the value of the currency. Hello!

Fox News has come out and firmly defended Beck against the Jewish organizations that are calling for his ouster. Soros is ready to withdraw his funding contributions to those organizations unless they do what he says.

Anytime anyone accumulates so much wealth and power that he has the ability to bring down nations and destroy lives, and anytime that individual sets out to do harm with that wealth and power, we need to bring him down. Bill Gates has wealth and power, and he uses it for notably charitable philanthropy. Just because you have acquired wealth and power does not mean you have to be the bad guy. But, when you're the bad guy, you need to be dealt with promptly and forcefully. His ties to the unions, the media and the politicians of this country must be immediately severed.

OLD GUARD WANTS NEWLY ELECTED TO SHUT UP AND DO AS THEY ARE TOLD

2010-11-10T04:00:00.000-08:00

Well, I wondered if anyone would ever bring the subject up and already they have. You see, we have a lot of fresh new faces in Congress starting in January. Some a Democrat and some are Republican, but these new faces were all elected because the public was disenchanted with their predecessors and they presented to the public the best opportunity to change the way things are done in Washington.

Now comes the suggestion that the “establishment,” those entrenched Members of Congress who managed to hang on to their jobs, will be quick to let the new guys know “how things are done in Washington.” In other words, it’s going to be like a fraternity hazing and, when it’s all said and done, the new guys had better do what the old guys say, or else the new guys are not going to get anywhere with their agendas and, presumably, a dissatisfied electorate will vote them out in 2012.

You can almost visualize Nancy and Harry calling the new guys in for lunch and then pulling out the rule books. It brings back memories of the days when they were calling in recalcitrant Members, twisting arms, offering bribes and making outright threats in order to get votes for the Health Care Bill. Such nostalgia simply brings tears to my eyes. In other words, the word “American” is just as foreign to those bums now as it was before the election; they still don’t give a damn what Americans think, or want.

Frankly, their continued arrogance in the face of a ticked off America restokes the fire within me that says we have to start now to engineer the departure of the remaining “old guys” in 2012. We cannot draw a deep breath and relax; we cannot go to sleep tonight with the thought in mind that they have learned their lessons because, obviously, they have not. Now that we have come this far, we will certainly be to blame if we do not finish the job off.

We can take advantage of the next few weeks to rebuild the energy in the Tea Parties and to invigorate the grass roots movements. We can start selecting more new and qualified candidates to replace those stubborn incumbents who refuse to listen to our demands for a better government and we can begin grooming them for political office. To do less is to open the door to going back to the way things have been in Washington for far too many years.

WHO HAS THE MANDATE NOW?

2010-11-03T04:00:00.000-07:00

Before anyone takes a bow and starts talking about how great they are and that’s why they got the vote… before any political party starts talking about how terrific the results were for them and what they are going to do or not do over the next two years…. Let’s get one thing straight: the only winners here are the people and the people have said loud and clear that they are tired of “politics as usual.” They are tired of the relentless spending when they themselves are out of work or on declined wages. They are fearful of the national debt and what it means for their grandchildren. They are upset with the passing of the unread stimulus bill and highly unpopular health care bill. They are resentful at being ignored and told to shut up.

Those who remain in office can consider themselves damned lucky and they had better well understand the message: change your method of doing things or you will be next to hit the street; 2012 is just around the corner. For those who just won a new office, understand that you have the job mostly because the people don’t like the job that your predecessor did and, unless you listen to what the people have to say and react accordingly, you too will be tossed back out; so, don’t get too comfortable in your new office digs, regardless of your political party.

No one got a mandate except the people, and the people’s mandate is to keep a sharp eye on the politicians going forward and to pay attention to what they say and what they do. No one expects this situation we are in to get better tomorrow, but we do expect that those we elected will roll up their sleeves and start to take proactive measures to get people back to work. We expect the mess created in the first two years to be mitigated, and promptly.

Those who are being turned out will undoubtedly have the urge to stick it to the voters who turned them out and to pass crappy legislation before the year is out. This is all about punishing your enemies while you still can. If that happens, there will be hell to pay.

Let’s be clear: The American public is not to blame for what has happened, and if the politicians in all of their high and mighty arrogance don’t get that message, our anger will not subside.

REMEMBER

2010-11-01T07:28:00.000-07:00

THE POWER BELONGS TO US, NOT THEM

SICK AND TIRED OF BLAME GAME

2010-10-30T06:59:00.000-07:00

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I have finally had it up to HERE with the damned blame game. Yes, the Republicans did a lot of bad things; that in no way elevates Obama and his damned far-left Democrats to the level of pious angels. Yet, to hear them tell the story, they are the true demigods of the world, all-seeing, all-knowing mortals with infinite wisdom to lead us, the lowly pissants, away from our miseries.

These are the guys who lied, lied, and lied about how many jobs were being saved, who did absolutely nothing to create jobs and gave nothing but lip service to the subject, who left millions of people sinking into the abyss of poverty while losing their homes, their cars, and their self-respect. These are the guys who looked deep into the American conscience, called us “Astroturf” and fear mongers and passed the Health Care Bill from hell regardless of how we felt about it. These are the guys who tried to put the skids on senior citizens. These are the guys who escalated our national debt and mortgaged the lives of our grandchildren and who are now anxious to mortgage the lives of their children.

Now, faced with an angry electorate, they blame Bush, they blame talk radio, they blame Fox, they blame the Tea Party, they blame the Republicans and they blame the urinal in Glenn Beck’s bathroom.

I am sick and tired of people in this country who only stand up to take bows for the good things they manage to do, and who shuck and duck and blame others for their misdeeds, mistakes and pure lack of judgment and self-control.

If you can’t stand the heat for your own bullshit, get out of the damned kitchen.

DON'T BE TO BLAME

2010-10-27T04:00:00.000-07:00

One short week, seven days from now, we’ll be scratching our heads at some of the political races which were lost and we’ll be singing in jubilation at some of the races which were won. Pundits will be prognosticating and the talking heads will be running amok. Hopefully, those of us who have a deep and undying love and respect for our American heritage will be drawing a deep breath and reaffirming our beliefs as we prepare to work together to move the country further toward the restoration of liberty, justice and democracy for all. That, however, can only happen if each and every one of us votes on November 2nd.

Never before in the history of our great nation have we been faced with an election of more importance, for we are literally at the crossroads of democracy and Marxist socialism. In this election, I truly believe we will be making the choice as to which road we will follow and what the future of our country will be. Judging by the radically left turn and the loss of individual liberties which has occurred in the previous two years, one can only presume that an unchallenged or unfettered continuation of the same will result in the total “change” that Obama envisions.

Just over two years ago, before the last election, I warned of the things which actually occurred in 2009 and 2010 should Obama and his cohorts win. Looking back, I have to say that I now believe I under-estimated the situation.

I also predicted that, under Obama’s plan, the nation would be transitioned enough by the end of his first term that he would be able to seize control of the country and we would be unable to stop him. I still believe that is true and that he has made substantial progress toward achieving that goal.

That is what this election is really all about, and that is the reason why you must vote and vote with the future of America at the forefront of your thoughts. Millions of Americans who voted the wrong way in the last election now regret it. Don’t be to blame for another mistake. Vote for America; vote American.

THEY’RE BACK TO BRIBING VOTES WITH OUR MONEY

2010-10-20T04:00:00.000-07:00

Remember when good old Harry and Nancy were buying votes in the Senate and in the House to get the Health Care Plan passed…with our money? Remember Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu and who knows who else, and all of the dirty tricks being pulled to get the Bill passed whether we wanted it or not?

Well, even with all of the ticked off voters jumping up and down in protest, they have not learned their lesson. In fact, they’re doing it again. The only difference is that this time, they are bribing US with our own money. This all sure takes gall.

Seniors, although Obama swore an oath to the contrary, are faced with substantially higher medical costs next year. In many cases, plans are being modified, deductibles and co-pays are going up and premiums are rising as well. With these added burdens, seniors are faced with a somewhat moderated rise in the cost of living; but it is still supposed to be covered by an increase in Cost of Living Adjustment, (COLA). For the second year in a row, Congress chose to freeze benefits, which means that seniors will be living at the 2009 level of income in 2011.

And, they’re being vocal about their shaft on the campaign trail. Candidates for re-election are hearing the message loud and clear, but they are not listening. Instead, they’re proposing to give every senior a $250.00 cash bonus before the election. Now, what does that sound like?

Number one, those who are not senior citizens don’t get anything, so the “bonus” is disproportionate. Number two, they are not addressing the real issue. Number three, they are giving us back our own money. Number four, they are giving us this money just before the vote is to be taken in November. If this is not transparent, I don’t know what is.

Folks, my name is not Ben Nelson or Mary Landrieu; I don’t want their bribes.

They are quick to point their finger at me and blame me for their ills, calling me a “Tea Party” member as if it were some type of social disease. They call me a “Right Wing Extremist,” chastise me for being an ex-military member, and want to trample on me because I’m “astroturf.”

Well, I’m one of those “silent majority” types who are now vocal. I’m sick and tired of this stench. Fed up. Angry.

We now have an opportunity to correct the situation. Let’s do it. Let’s roll.

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING

2010-10-16T19:43:00.000-07:00

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You have GPS in your car. You have a separate GPS handheld device. You have a cell phone. You have a laptop with internet access. You have a desktop computer with internet access. You have credit cards. You have a checking account and a savings account.

I, an obscure government agent in an obscure government office, a person you did not even know exists, can now determine:

Your income and the income of your spouse
What you bought at Wal-Mart
Where you were at 11:45 AM yesterday
Who you were talking with on your cell phone at that time
What you were browsing on the internet at that time
How much you spent for lunch and how many people were in your party
How much you spent on sexual aids last month
Whether you spent more than you took in last month
If you have a secret lover
Whether or not you take medications for bowel problems
And so very much more.

Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old computer salesman and college student, took his car in for an oil change and his mechanic spotted an odd wire hanging from the undercarriage. That led to the discovery of a GPS monitoring device. Granted, one could assume by the name that he could be a middle-eastern terrorist, but no such connection had been made. The Federal government asserted in court that the device was not subject to the wiretapping laws.

Several months ago, thousands of websites and blogs were summarily shut down without notice and without court order by the federal government and all news regarding this event was immediately blacked out.

How safe do you feel with our government?

Who are you going to vote for in November?

ONE OBAMA TRAGEDY AFTER ANOTHER

2010-10-13T04:00:00.000-07:00

Obama has said many things proven to be untrue. He has made many predictions that have not occurred. He has made many promises, all broken. Eric Holder announced he was going to try Khalid Sheik Mohamed and his side-kicks in downtown New York because the rules for evidence were a lot more favorable in a civilian Court than a Military Tribunal.

Opening statements are beginning with those “in the know” divided over whether the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani should open the door to a civilian trial for Khalid Sheik Mohammed and others. Ghailani is charged with conspiring with others including Osama bin Laden to blow up two U.S. embassies in Africa in August 1998. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. If convicted, Ghailani could face life in prison. He has been accused by the government of being a bomb maker, document forger and aide to bin Laden.

However, prosecutors will proceed without their top witness after the Judge ruled last week that the witness’ testimony that he sold explosives to Ghailani must be excluded because the government only learned about him after Ghailani was water-boarded.

Isn’t that great? The first trial out of the shoot and we’re in trouble already. It’s just another one of those many Obama Administration fiascos. The arrogant ineptness of the whole damned regime is downright scary.

TWO YEARS: MEMORIES WE WOULD RATHER NOT HAVE

2010-10-09T16:18:00.000-07:00

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In almost two years, Obama has not been able to advance one inch in dealing with Iran.

It came out at the end of 2009 that scientists were altering the facts when it came to talking about the climate, and there was White House Climate Czar and Al Gore advisor, Dr. John P. Holdren, right in the middle of it.

Despite imminent political losses in November, Obama is still dead set on getting his Climate Cap & Trade Bill through Congress, at an additional cost to the nation of $148 trillion over 10 years. And, should Congress not respond to his demands, he’s ordered the EPA to get the job done outside of Congressional action.

Back in December of 2009, the nation was wondering what the President was going to do about the unemployment problem. We’re still wondering.

Also in December of 2009, I said: “Our real war is not with terrorists; our real war is with the bastards on the Hill and in the White House who are willing to sell this country down the drain financially and change our government economically without a shot being fired.”

Obama lied, cheated, schemed, called names and bullied Congress into passing the Health Care Bill in March of 2010 and the Democrats all followed his lead without even reading a damned word of the 2,300 page Bill.

Eric Holder announced that he was moving the terrorists and holding their trials in New York City, and the nation went into an uproar. Obama backed Holder to the hilt and firmly said those were his intentions as well and all of the Democrats in Congress blindly followed Obama again. Eventually, the matter was put on the back burner and still festers, but Obama may be planning to renew his efforts in the lame duck session. Dozens have already quietly been moved from Gitmo to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois.

The Health Care Bill that was eventually passed does not limit malpractice awards, cut insurance premiums, resolve the prescription drug issues, deal with the Medicare crisis, or ensure seniors that they will not be called before death squads. It does, however, encourage insurance companies to raise our premiums, increases the national debt by over $1 trillion and still leaves 20 million or so Americans uninsured. Obama still champions it and the Democrats who voted for it are refusing to talk about it. Although Obama promised that it would be passed during completely open hearings, secrecy ruled the day.

ACORN was misspending our money and encouraging illegal acts. In case you forgot, ACORN worked extensively for Obama during his Presidential campaign and he was their attorney. ACORN eventually split up into smaller groups with a multitude of names, but they are all still connected and are all involved heavily in the coming elections. And, word has it, they are getting federal dollars into their coffers again, too.

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi made continuous asses out of themselves with their lying, bullying and name calling.

Moody’s has warned the country numerous times that we cannot sustain our debt, but nobody in Washington is doing anything about it. Congress raised our national debt ceiling by almost $2 trillion.

Obama has been totally dragging his feet on the immigration issue and has ordered Holder to sue Arizona because it is trying to force the Feds to live up to the law. Democrats have written a Bill and are ready to pass it in the lame duck session that will grant total and complete amnesty to all illegals living in the United States and no one has yet to devise a sure-fire way to close the border.

Ben Nelson got a huge concession on the Medicaid issue for Nebraska in return for his vote for the health care plan. Remember that? It came after he was “allegedly” threatened by Rahm Emmanuel that he’d better toe the line of they would close Offutt Air Force Base. Nelson denied that story but took the Medicaid concessions and voted FOR the health care plan.

Representative Alan Grayson tried to jail a blogger who wrote against him.

Then there was Haiti, devastated by horrendous, calamitous earthquakes and responded to by an American government that could not provide hospitals or shuffle relief flights into or out of the country.

Only a blind stroke of luck prevented a plane from blowing up over Detroit. Obama and his cabinet stooges celebrated by claiming how great our defenses were.

Although FBI statistics show that the more guns people own and carry the lower the crime rate becomes, Obama, Holder, Emmanuel and the Democrat controlled Congress continued their relentless attempt to ban guns through court actions, and lost in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, Il.

While chastising Tea Partiers and opponents for being “racists,” Obama fanned the flames himself with help from Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Harry Reid.

Obama, Geithner, Bernanke and company continued to pour millions and billions of money into A.I.G., Goldman Sachs and other companies who were passing the money out like candy to top executives in the form of raises and bonuses. Congress called Geithner and Bernanke to the carpet, slapped their wrists and winked their eyes.

Scott Brown did the unthinkable in taking Ted Kennedy’s old Senate Seat and Harry Reid threatened not to promptly seat him.

Obama was running around telling everyone how great his American Recovery Act was doing; when the facts came out that the numbers being reported were purely fiction, Obama retorted that statistics don’t matter anyway.

The F.C.C. shut down thousands of blogs and the Administration buried the story.

Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu sold out her vote against the health care bill for what was thought to be $100 million. But, she promptly corrected everyone by saying it was $300 million and she did what was right for Louisiana.

Mortgage delinquencies and home foreclosures skyrocketed, new home sales plummeted, and now we find out that not only were loans mishandled when the money was being given out under pressure from Barney Frankfarter and Charles Dodd, but that the foreclosure process has been badly tainted as well.

It was discovered that elementary students are being subjected to singing songs praising Obama and writing stories talking about how our ancestors were bad guys.

You know, I’m just getting warmed up. I have gone back over just a few months of postings to come up with all of this. I can fill twice as many more lines with the things that our President and his dummies in Congress have done to us. It just goes on, and on, and on.

China attacked our computers. North Korea told Obama to essentially take a hike. BP played a real dog and pony show in the Gulf and the President bought into it. On and on.

Don’t you think it’s time we put the blame where it really belongs and put an end to this misery? Please... Vote on November 2nd.

NEW YORK MOSQUE PROCEEDS

2010-10-06T04:00:00.000-07:00

Remember the Health Care Plan that nobody wanted? Remember that no one gave a damn what we wanted and that they voted it in anyway?

Here comes the Mosque.

Developers have now released the design drawings for their new facility. Although it is claimed that the money to build the Mosque has not been fully raised, work to demolish the existing structure could start within days, not more than a week or two away. In fact, the money could already be in an off-shore account awaiting last-minute transfer into a New York bank.

The news media has been strangely silent, as if the White House told them all to shut up and not to report on the matter. In the meanwhile, Osama Bin Laden is once again on the muscle, threatening that he and his followers are going to do some serious damage in Europe and, maybe, the United States. This is all Muslim activity and we’re less than a year away from the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

When are we going to get the guts to stand up and do something about what our government is allowing to be done to us?

HOW THE INCUMBENTS REALLY PROCESS THEIR THOUGHTS

2010-10-03T14:18:00.000-07:00

SPECIAL POST

A week or so ago, I took on Lisa Murkowski and people like her who are not willing to accept the fact that the majority might not like them. These are the ones who decide to play the unethical game of running as independents or third party candidates in an effort to split the vote and secure victory for themselves with less than 50% of the vote. Murkowski, ticked off to no end that she was soundly beaten in the primaries, turned to the Libertarians to put her on the November ballot as their candidate. They refused. Now, she’s running as a “write in” candidate because there was no other way she could get a spot on the ballot.

Back in the primary days, she set about trashing Joe Miller, the guy who ultimately walloped her. She went on and on about what a lousy lawyer he was and how it would be a very bad choice for Alaskans to make should they vote for him. And, she hasn’t stopped.

What’s amazing is that Lisa Murkowski flunked her bar exam four times in a row.

I submit to you that this is how those guys think, the ones who piously stand there and tell us that they, and only they, know what is good for us as they vote for things we do not want. And yes, by the way, I understand that I am picking on a Republican. But, she certainly serves to make the point that we need to vote against incumbents. I have said it for well over a year: It has become a “culture” in Washington to think that they can get away with anything and we, the people, are simply in the way of things. Further, if “we, the people,” take it upon ourselves to remove “them, the elitist, self-serving, pious and non-responsive” ones, then it is only fit and proper that they should ignore us and find ways around us.

These people must be removed. We can get the entire House in this election and 1/3 of the Senate and two years from now, we can get another 1/3 of the Senate and maybe, pray to God, that damned culture they created will finally be dissolved.

TAX SHAFT: It’s Only A Matter Of When

2010-09-29T04:00:00.000-07:00

Our most-highly celebrated Congress has decided to go home and wait until after the elections to “reach their decision” on whether or not to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire.

What does that mean? Well, let’s think it through together.

Leaving the Republicans aside because we all know where they stand, if the rest of them who happen to hold the majority in both houses and who WILL hold that majority until Congress reseats in January, intend to keep the Bush tax cuts in place, they’d vote on it now to try and gain favor with their constituents. If they intend to keep the cuts in place for the middle class and to raise taxes on the rich, they don’t want to do that right now because that will simply tick off both sides. If they intend to let the Bush tax cuts expire completely and give the whole nation the shaft, they’ll also wait until after the election so they can claim it as a “pay back” for losing both Houses of Congress.

So, it’s one of the latter two.

Nancy Pelosi has already made it plain as day that she intends to see all of the Bush tax cuts expire. Reid is a vengeful man and, after he loses in November, he’ll be all primed to let the Bush tax cuts expire entirely.

All of this conjecturing pretty much paints the picture, doesn’t it? Hold on to your knapsacks.

More than that, the fact that the present majority doesn’t have the guts to stand and be counted before the election underscores the dirty, rotten and conniving ways they have managed themselves for the past two years, with the Health Care Bill, stimulus, etc, etc, etc. The more I see of these lying, two-faced sacks of el toro pupu, the angrier I become. They have played the American public as suckers for so long, I can’t remember.

Joe Biden, the Archbishop of Candor, even had the temerity to tell them to quit their whining.

I don’t know about you, but I am sick and tired of the whole damned bunch. I’m to the point I don’t want to hear from them, I don’t want to hear about them and I sure as hell don’t want to hear that they’ve been reelected.

Can’t blame me for that, can you?

TO ALL CITIZENS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN REPUBLIC

2010-09-26T04:00:00.000-07:00

Never before in the history of this great country has the participation of the electorate been more profoundly required. The events of the past two years most certainly have proven that complacency and inaction are intensely dangerous to our Union. It is up to us to assert our rights as citizens and to take back our country from the control of those misguided souls who believe that our Constitution placed the power and authority of government in their hands and not ours.

We must make firm and unbreakable plans to vote this November 2nd. If not registered, we must register. If we are going to be away from our polling places, we must secure absentee ballots now. And, we need to spend an hour or more every day of the week for the next five weeks learning about the various candidates, their views, their history and their track records. We must look with severely critical eyes at the records of incumbents and we must summarily dismiss any lame excuses for poor decisions and failure to respond to the wishes of the populace.

We cannot survive even two more years of the horribly bad government that we have seen for the last twenty-two years.

NOW IT'S OUR TURN

2010-09-22T04:00:00.000-07:00

The White House came out yesterday and announced that the recession is over. To my recollection, this is about the third time that the White House has been out trumpeting non-existent success. What we can expect next, as has happened more than dozens of times in this administration, is that in some obscure newspaper in some obscure town on a Saturday morning, you’ll find on page 19 of the local newspaper a one paragraph statement saying that, alas, they made a mistake, the recession hadn’t ended.

I’m sorry to say this about the President of the United States, but the guy is a liar. He is a liar, his administration is a liar, Pelosi is a liar, and Reid doesn’t tell the truth. Virtually every “fact” and “figure” that has been released by these stalwarts of American government has been an outright lie. Think about it. Obama is a two-bit pathological liar and the rest of them are blindly following in the “wanna be” mode. The approval rating of Congress, the last I heard, was down into the teens. Obama, Reid and Pelosi are running around saying what a great job Congress does. What does that tell you?

This total lack of ethics and veracity at the pinnacle of our government has to be destroyed. It’s infecting our government employees, our state legislatures, our local governments, our education system and now, our homes; children come home from school every day with some of the most outrageous excuses for misbehavior that we have ever heard. Poor Lindsay Lohan, she just couldn’t help herself; maybe the caffeine in her lunch drinks did her in. Paris Hilton’s grandfather, believe it or not, ate his cereal without sugar on it and that turned her into a porno star and cocaine addict. Obama’s father left the family when he was young and that gives him the absolute right to lie.

The day is at hand, my friends, when we need to get back to the basics of being parents, children, employees, and Americans. A good place to start is in Washington, D.C. By getting rid of the derelicts who are in charge at such a high level, we have the opportunity to install men and women who speak the truth, accept responsibility for their own actions, believe in America’s heritage, and who are willing to listen to what we citizens are thinking.

I do recognize that this is a tall order, but we all know that it has to be done.

I want someone in Washington who, when 70% of the population is against a bill, will vote against it regardless of what the Speaker or the Majority Leader commands. I want someone there who, when a colleague commits a crime or has a severe lack of ethics, will call that person to task and see that he or she pays the penalty for their transgressions. I want someone who will not allow a 2,700 page bill to be created in the first place but, should that happen, will refuse to vote on it until they have read it.

You know how long this list could be, were I to list the multitudes and multitudes of things this Administration has succeeded in perpetrating against us. It really serves no purpose, other than historical, to list them here. It doesn’t do us any real good to lay out the blame, especially when we by our complacence must share some of that blame. What does matter is that we are virtually at the eve of having the opportunity to do something about it.

The primaries are behind us and now we face the general election. We have done an excellent job of ferreting out some of the bad guys so far. When we step into the voting booth on November 2nd, we have the opportunity to finish the job. Let us not falter or waver in our purpose. We have a job to do; let’s get it done.

EVEN IN TODAY’S CLIMATE, BAD POLITICS ABOUNDS

2010-09-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

SPECIAL POST

It seems to me that when you lose, you lose. I know that as a kid, if I lost a game of chess, I’d just throw all of the pieces on the floor. That of course, made me the winner, because I’d then get up and walk out of the room to leave my opponent with the chore of cleaning up the mess. What a real sport I was.

Turning to politics and the primaries, you’ve had more than one candidate lose to his or her opponent and then decide to run as a third party candidate or even, most recently, a write-in candidate. The theory is this: With three candidates in the race, and with your position now drawing from the other two candidates, you could theoretically win even though you lost.

Here’s how crappy this end-run game plan gets. If you had 100,000 voters in the primary and you lost with only 40,000 votes, then you had 300,000 people turn out for the general election and you won with 110,000 votes, you actually won the whole ball game while being a minority vote-getter. You effectively cheated, in this case, 190,000 people who voted against you in the general election and you only had 110,000 votes.

To me, this goes against the grain of a fair game and it is unethical. Those who play this game including Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Florida’s Charlie Crist should be ashamed of themselves. This is straight from the playbook of “politics as usual,” that we’re all so sick and tired of. You know full well that, if elected back to Washington, they’ll continue to play those games that got us all into this mess. We need good leaders who will fairly represent our interests, not good politicians who spin, twist and don't give a damn about what the voters want.

Don’t be to blame for more crapola in politics; don’t vote for this type of candidate.

HEALTH CARE BILL: The Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost

2010-09-15T04:00:00.000-07:00

Well, the next time you run across one of those Democrats who clawed and climbed over each other to sign on to the Health Care Bill that nobody wanted… you know them, they’re the ones who refuse to talk about the Bill in their reelection campaigns because they know we’re more than a tad ticked off about it… ask him or her this question:

“Mr. or Mrs. Candidate, assuming that the Republicans take control of both houses of Congress in November, and assuming that they enact a Bill to cancel the Health Care Bill, and assuming that President Obama vetoes that Bill, how would you vote in a Congressional attempt to override the veto?” In other words, are they embarrassed enough about the damned Health Care Bill that they voted for to retract it? Or, are they only embarrassed enough to duck the issue during the reelection campaign?

Now let’s play some nice, soft music: This one’s called, “The Squirm Dance Rhumba.”

More and more Americans who were ambivalent about the Bill are now coming to the realization that things are not turning out exactly as Barry, Harry and Nancy were saying they would. In fact, Madame Pelosi, now that we’ve had a chance to read the Bill to find out what’s in it, most of us would rather suck on a lemon. How you had the audacity to do this dastardly deed to your fellow Americans is beyond me.

Candidates are well aware of the fact that the Bill is very, very, very unpopular and, although they thought we’d get over it, they’re discovering that their vote for the Bill may have sealed their political fate. While that fact is making them a tad uncomfortable, the plain and simple matter of fact that this was just the straw that broke the armadillo’s back. It was just one more affront to the American intellect, one more bad piece of legislation, one more put-down of a citizen’s right not to have government involved in his daily life and one more example of total government irresponsibility.

Now that we have our Tea Parties, it seems that no one in Washington wants to come for tea?

November 2nd is virtually just around the corner. Short of a declaration of war, the stage is set for the people to extract their pound of flesh. Many incumbents have already been knocked off in the primaries and many more are staring their own unemployment straight in the face. If unemployment kicks back up to 10.0% and it’s because so many incumbents got pink slips, we’ll all be delighted.

And, we’re not to blame.

JERRY BROWN FLAPS OFF AT THE MOUTH

2010-09-13T18:30:00.000-07:00

Jerry Brown, California's Attorney General and now candidate for Governor, (again), made off the cuff remarks that slighted good old boy Bill Clinton over the weekend. The remarks alluded to Clinton's propensity for lying. Jerry caught serious flak over it and has had to issued an apology to Clinton and to fellow Democrats.

Whether or not Jerry hit the nail on the head is not the issue; it's another one of those things about being "politically correct." Jerry made the remark and stepped into deep pigeon dung and those of us who are old enough to remember when Jerry was California's Guv before know fully well how his mouth often leads him into oblivion.

They don't call Jerry "Moonbeam" for nothing, and this is but one of example of why.

We don't need Jerry in office again. He's an old time politician and we all know how old time politicians have been screwing this country up for decades. He's part of a problem California does not need again.

If we vote him in, we will have nobody to blame but ourselves.

MY CHOICE FOR A NEW MOSQUE LOCATION

2010-09-11T09:02:00.000-07:00

SPECIAL POST

This post may not be politically correct. It certainly is a sensitive issue, especially in light of recent events, but what will be said here has to be said sometime, and I feel that the time has come.

Nine years ago, radical Muslims unleashed the power of their hatred toward us at the World Trade Center. As a result of that attack, our nation became aware that there are certain factions on this planet which want to annihilate us. Indeed, we had somehow had the audacity to presume that, just because we are Americans, the world is in love with us.

There are, of course, many reasons that radical Muslims want to see us beheaded and set on fire; I won’t dwell on them. What IS important to recognize and to fully realize is that our country has become permeated with members of the Muslim faith who have migrated here from countries that foster terrorism. I‘ve heard it mentioned quite frequently in these past few days that we need to be ready for terrorism from within, and we must. Yet, those remarks are made in a general context and usually contain the caveat that we have totally American factions within the country who would do us harm in order to advance their own agendas as well. But, those factions have always existed in this country going back to pre-revolutionary times and we have always been able to deal with them; what we need to really concern ourselves with in 2010 is the threat of domestic terrorism raised from internal radical Muslim groups.

Let me be quick to say that I am not suggesting we should round up all Muslims and ship them out of the country. What does concern me, however, is that Muslims of all walks of life in this country have been somewhat reluctant to denounce radical Islam. One therefore must wonder what side of the fence they would all stand on if the call came from radical Muslim leaders to strike us from within. Would they join us, or them?

I feel that we Americans must be totally aware of the dangers that lurk within our country and that we must constantly contemplate the potential outcomes of possible and probable internal terrorism. In that regard, moving the Mosque from its intended location near the ground-zero World Trade Center site to the actual site itself seems to me to be the right solution. Having the Mosque on that hallowed ground would certainly serve as a constant reminder to us that we are now living in a dangerous time and a dangerous world. Moving it to some other out-of-sight place could serve to return us to our complacent vulnerability.

IF MCCAIN HAD WON?

2010-09-08T04:00:00.000-07:00

Would the economy be better? McCain doesn’t have the business acumen needed to get things cooking any more than Obama does. But, I do think he would have called together the nation’s top experts on the subject and that he would have listened to what they had to say. Obama hasn’t even done that.

Would the New York Mosque be built? Absolutely not; I think McCain would have fought that one tooth and nail, just because of his military experiences. And, the guys down in Guantanamo would all still be there; none of them would have been released to go back and fight with the Taliban and Al Queda, as has Obama has allowed. No one would have dared to suggest that Khalid Sheik Mohamed be tried in New York City, either.

Would the new Health Care Plan have been passed? Not in its present form. I think there would have been steps taken against malpractice lawsuits and awards and against escalating insurance costs. On the other hand, I would also have expected an open and outright attack on Social Security and Medicare benefits, instead of the subtle, sneaky one that Obama undertook.

Would there be constant lies about statistics and accomplishments? No, McCain likes to take it on the chin. In this respect, he’s not a coward, but he’s a stand up guy. And, I don’t think he’d be blaming Bush for everything, either.

Would the Gulf Oil Spill have happened? Undoubtedly, but I don’t think McCain would have given BP an award for outstanding rig safety and drilling practices, either. I also think he would have reached out for help and that it would have been mitigated within the first 30 days; he certainly would not have turned away help like Obama did.

Would we have spent trillions of dollars on stimulus programs? Well, we would have spent money, not as much by far, by reducing taxes and giving some incentives for employers to hire. We certainly would not have been taking over banks and automobile companies. I think that unemployment would therefore be lower… not at the 5% levels we had going in to this mess, but certainly not at 10%, either. I think the figure might be closer to 7% and that there would be a somewhat better economic stability, although not by a whole lot.And, I feel there would be a full-fledged investigation into who did what when causing the mess in the first place.

Would the Tea Party exist? I think it might. There has been growing discontent with Washington in recent years. Nevertheless, I think the Tea Party targets would be the same, to control spending and reduce taxes and to get some sense of responsibility back into the government.

Where would McCain be in the opinion polls? Obama is in the dumps, with the majority of Americans thinking he is doing a poor job. I think McCain would be faring better, maybe 51% or 52% of Americans supporting his job. But, he’d be under horrendous and relentless fire from the media and press.

Would Palin be a better Vice President than Biden? Without question, I think you would see her as being a strong asset for the President instead of detracting and providing an opportunity for guffaws.

The country would not be moving toward Marxism under McCain, that’s for certain. On the other hand, the main drawback to having McCain as President is that the nation would be left without a Robert Gibbs to provide laughter and frivolity while fumbling blindly through the day.

Frankly, we’re to blame for having considered either one of them for the job.

DEMOCRATS, OTHERS SHAKING IN THEIR BOOTS?

2010-09-04T20:28:00.000-07:00

If I’ve heard it once in the past week, I’ve heard it two dozen times: the Democrats are afraid of the election and are shaking in their boots. The second fear I have heard, not quite so frequently, is that ALL incumbents are worried about the foreboding November elections. There’s even an inference that we, the citizens, are to blame for their fears.

Well, I’m glad they are shaking in their boots, but they really have no one to blame but themselves. After all, and I’m sure you will remember, they are the ones who called us names, talked down to us in their condescending ways, and then proceeded to pass the health care plan and stimulus plans and other legislation that we, the people, we solidly against. They followed Nancy and Harry and Barry into the back rooms of Congress, struck their dirty deals, and shoved it where the sun does not shine. They even had the gall to admit that they had not read what they passed.

Now, they’re nervous? They’re afraid? I don’t know about you, but I have no pity for them. They have screwed, screwed, screwed and screwed you, me and all of our friends.

Let’s keep the focus. They do have to be removed. All of the squirming in the world does not change the fact that they have betrayed the public trust.

CHAIRMAN BARACK: MORE OF THE SAME BLAME GAME

2010-09-01T04:00:00.000-07:00

Many times in our history when times were tough or the situation dire, Presidents have come back from a brief respite with innovative new ideas to fix things. Chairman Barack has just returned from a ten day retreat with what is obviously going to be more of the same defiant, holier-than-thou attitude that has led our country deep into the throes of impending economic and psychological depression.

He’s still blaming Bush and the Republicans for all of his mistakes. He wants to have more of the runaway, irresponsible spending that is threatening the retirement incomes of our grand children and not helping our country one damned bit. He wants to raise taxes and to place heavier burdens on our unemployed, underemployed, underpaid citizens and businesses. He calls those who question his tactics “irresponsible,” and he derides those who won’t kiss his damned ring and go along with the program.

Hundreds of thousands of people showed up in Washington on the 28th to protest the status quo and to pledge a renewal toward truth and faith. Our President dismissed them as a “few people” who don’t agree with him; he dismissed Glenn Beck as being one of “those who are always stirring things up.” He has dismissed Americans as being “misguided” as if we can’t think for ourselves.

Well, we CAN think for ourselves, Chairman Barry. We don’t want any more of your benevolent leadership garbage. We don’t want any more of your eloquent speeches and dialogue. We don’t want any more of your talk downs and your arbitrary dismissals of public concern.

We’re tired of your blaming Bush, blaming the Republicans and blaming US for your actions that are worsening our economy, our security and our future every minute of every day.

Yes, we want change all right. Yes, you fit very much in our desires for change. If you don’t have anything good to say, keep your mouth shut. If your actions are hurting the country, quit taking actions. If you can’t do your job the way we want you to do your job, pack up and hightail it out of town. Go stand in the unemployment line for a day or two and get a real grasp on what your administration is doing to our country. There’s a whole bunch of people out there in those lines who can say it better than I can and are certainly willing to do so.

A REAL man, faced with a nation of people who so abundantly have made it clear they do not appreciate what he has done, would stop and be a little more introspective. But, I guess Obama will never, ever be introspective, because he just might find out where the blame for things in America really belongs.

AMERICA IS MISSING THE REAL POLITICAL DRIFT

2010-08-29T19:35:00.000-07:00

SPECIAL POST

We all had our focus just a few weeks ago when the Obama radicals started their campaign to distort what is real. We all knew in our hearts and souls that we had to get rid of the establishment, the incumbent s.o.b.’s who have created our national mess at a federal and a state level over the last several decades. Yes, we agreed, regardless of being Democrat or Republican or Independent, if they have been for of the “good old boy” Washington network, they have to go.

Have we lost sight of that objective?

Two prime examples of where I am going with this special post are: (1) You have Carly Fiorina running against Barbara Boxer and you have the public concern that Fiorina is new to politics, has lots of money and ran HP; (2) You have Meg Whitman running against Jerry Brown and you have the outcry that Whitman is spending millions and millions of her own money to win and SHE has no political experience.

Come one folks, get real. We all know that Barbara Boxer is a tartly little snit who has consistently voted for her own special interests and who has ignored the will of the people. We are aware of her elitist put-downs of Generals and others and we know that she has done a great disservice to the country. I submit that Craig Highfellow would be a much better occupant of that Senate seat than Boxer. Who is Craig Highfellow? I don’t know either and that makes the point; Boxer has done such a bad disservice to us that she needs to be replaced… by anyone! So, don’t get tangled up in the bad Fiorina press; we don’t yet know what kind of a Senator she would make, but we certainly know what kind of a Senator Boxer has been.

Same with the Whitman vs. Brown Gubernatorial race. We KNOW from past experience what kind of a Governor Brown will be. We need to choose anyone but him.

Unlike prior elections, this is not about who runs the slickest campaign or who has the most money or who talks the nicest. This is about corruption in office, a lack of responsibility to the citizens, and cavalier spending and misspending of our money. This is about an establishment that simply must be removed.

So, don’t be to blame for not routing out the establishment. Don’t get sidetracked with fallacious arguments.

Throw the incumbents and the establishment out, OUT, OUT.

MEXICO FALLING INTO ANARCHY?

2010-08-25T04:00:00.000-07:00

The number of drug related deaths in Mexico is growing by the second. Victims are found hanging upside down from their legs, with their heads lopped off. Bullets are flying in all directions, including over the border and into American homes and businesses. Every day brings more stories of judges and civic leaders being murdered and major cities falling into anarchy.

Americans living in Mexico are now being pried out of their comfortable retirement abodes and are flocking back across the border, fleeing for their lives. Now, more than ever, Mexicans are looking to the North for a venue of safe haven.

The Obama Administration has responded with great aplomb: they’re adding 1,200 National Guard troops to the border and another 1,000 Border Patrol agents as well. Word is wafting about in Washington that Obama is preparing to open the borders wide and to offer to house and feed the fleeing Mexicans and to provide them with some of the trappings of health care, education, housing, and jobs. Usually, when something wafts around the streets and alleys of Washington, there’s substance to it.

I’m not suggesting that we should turn our backs on humanity. But, let me ask you a question: If all of the clean-living Mexicans come across the border and leave only the drug lords and their puppets behind, what do you think those drug lords and puppets will do next? The fact is, they’re already jumping the borders themselves and committing murder and mayhem in Phoenix, Nogales, Tucson and other border cities. Obama and his Czarist cronies in the White House are responding with yawns and shrugs.

We have a major problem here that is not only brewing, it’s beginning to boil.

Those of us who live up north are able to watch the horrors and atrocities oozing forth from the border and to say, “Gosh, gee whilikers, those folks down there are having a tough time of it.” If you are afraid of the American gang activities going on across the country right now, wait until these Mexican gangs and drug lords bring their forms of onslaught to a street near you. The Obama Administration has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that it is either incapable of giving the issue proper response or it simply doesn’t care how much turmoil we have in America.

It’s time for us to take the bull by the horns and to start demanding action from Congress. We need a large number of troops on the boarder and we need to be partnering with the Mexican government to help them clean this mess up… whether their government wants our help or not. Only when the drug lords are killed or locked up can peace return to the Mexican countryside and only then can the pressure for Mexicans to cross the border into the United States be diminished.

If there is a war to be fought anywhere, the one closest to home should take precedence. If there is anyone to blame in America for this mess, it’s the incumbent in the White House and his allies in the Congress.

SICK AND TIRED OF DONATION REQUESTS

2010-08-20T04:00:00.000-07:00

SPECIAL POST

Here’s an interesting complaint from a reader of the BURNEY MOUNTAIN HERMIT.

“Why is it that every political candidate, every political party, every charitable cause and every other organization looking for a handout is picking on me? I get so much mail every day that it will not fit in my box. I only get 35 telephone calls a week and 34 of those are from someone looking for money; the other call is from my ex-wife’s attorney, looking for money. When I tell them I can’t afford to give, they argue with me. When I tell them I don’t support their organization, they argue with me. When I tell them I’m on the national do not call registry, they argue with me.

“I’ve been out of work for almost two years. I’ve put out at least 1,000 resumes and personally gone for 100 or more job openings, (along with 500 or more people each time). Do I get any telephone calls or letter from those people? No, all I get is people looking for money I do not have.

“My God, one day I got a call from the Republican National Committee and when I hung up the phone, Nancy Pelosi’s office was calling me.

“Don’t you understand how low I feel? I’m about to lose my house and my car. My savings and retirement are all gone. My wife walked out on me and took the kids. And now these money hungry idiots come along and belittle me and argue with me because I can’t kick in 'Just $25?'

“How dare you! Who in the hell do you think you are, you pious holier-than-thou vermin who have never missed a meal in your God damned lives?”

I totally understand.

BLAGOJEVICH VERDICT SYMPTOMATIC OF WHAT AILS AMERICA

2010-08-18T04:00:00.000-07:00

Rod Blagojevich, the charismatic former Governor of Illinois, was found guilty of one count out of 24 pending against him by a Federal Jury yesterday; 23 ended up in a mistrial due to hung jury. Prosecutors were quick to vow that they will immediately seek a new trial on the remaining counts.

When you look back at the foul language, the forlorn cries of “What’s in it for me” and much of the other testimony that was revealed to the public, one’s first reaction might just be, “That’s Chicago-style politics.” But, I think it is more than that. I think it is an example of the decline of our morals and ethics in this country and I further think that such decline is directly responsible for the situation in which this country now finds itself.

“It’s of the “everything for me and screw everyone else” mentality. People of this culture tend to be smooth talkers who are of the opinion that he world owes them something. When you become that narcissistic, to the extent that you believe the world revolves around you, ethics and moral principles must inevitably take a back seat. In the evolution of things, it would seem to me that anarchy is the next step. We’re close to that now.

Those in places of high power who ignore the will of the people are of this mindset. They are so wrapped up in themselves that everyone else ceases to exist. And, as this mindset has permeated all facets of life in our country, we have lost work ethics, a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong, and we’ve had a basic decay of our society.

There was a day in my lifetime when this behavior was unacceptable. Things in this country were much better in those days. We looked up to politicians, we had much less crime and our country was not heading for international bankruptcy. We had ethics and morals and when people violated them, there was hell to pay. According to those rules, at least half of Congress would be out of a job today, and so would the President.

We simply have to get back to the basics of living by good and fundamental values. We need to instill those values in our children and we need to demand that they be followed. Otherwise, America will just keep on sinking into the abyss and we will be to blame.

REPUBLICANS HAVE RUDE AWAKENING COMING

2010-08-16T04:00:00.000-07:00

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I’ve been called so many times by representatives of the Republican National Committee asking for donations lately that I’ve worn a hole in into the earpiece of my telephone. What’s really interesting is their reaction when I tell them that, “No, I’m definitely NOT contributing to the Republican National Committee this year. My money is going directly to the candidates.”

The argument comes from some that the Committee can’t provide background support to the candidates without funding. Others try to tell me that the bulk of candidate funding comes from the Committee. Recently, a lady proceeded to argue with me as to how I should donate my money and tried to denigrate me as a member of the Republican Party by saying that I’m not supporting the Republican Party unless I give to the Committee.

She hit the nail on the head. She needs to take the message and deliver it to the top. But, the top is not listening. The top still thinks that, when we vote for Republicans this fall, we will be subscribing to the ideals of the Party. They think it will be THEIR mandate.

They’re as dense as a San Fernando Valley fog.

The only reason we are going to be voting for Republican candidates this fall in many instance is because they are the lesser of two evils. We’re going to have to go through this cycle a few times until we get all of the politicians out who seem to think that we owe them something. There is no evidence that the National Committee has come to grips with the fact that they and their thinking are just as guilty for the problems this country faces today as are the Democrats and, indeed, the left-wing radicals as well. Further, there’s no sign that the National Committee is sincerely willing to change its ways.

If the Republican Party doesn’t step up to the plate by November, it likely will be one of three major political parties in the 2012 elections, because the Tea Party will most certainly morph into a political party of its own if substantial corrections are not made on the landscape in 2010.

In the meantime, you had Republicans spending Party money on lap dances in Los Angeles. There have been many other examples of flagrant abuse of the membership funds and support. But, there have been no changes at the top. That’s why MY money and MY support are going directly to the candidates.

This is the last stand. If they don't wake up, they'll be the ones to blame. If the candidates violate my trust and my donations this time around, my money and support will be going to the Tea Party next time around.

LEFT-WING IMPOSTERS TRY TO CRASH TEA PARTIES

2010-08-14T07:27:00.000-07:00

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The radical left-wing has taken to gutter politics again. This time, they are putting up candidates of their own and then trying to claim that the candidates are really Tea Party members, when local Tea Partiers have never heard of them. This is a flagrant attempt to divide the Tea Parties against themselves and, hopefully, to split the Republican votes as well. "It's obvious it's a Democratic play," said Jason Gillman, a Tea Party activist from Traverse City, MI.

In Michigan, state Republicans and Tea Party activists are currently trying to invalidate at least some of the candidates running under the Tea Party name. In Nevada, a judge in April ruled that Senate candidate Scott Ashjian could run under the Tea Party name despite claims that he was an imposter. Earlier this year, Republican candidate Danny Tarkanian told FoxNews.com that "nobody" in the local Tea Party movement knew who he was and that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's supporters may have entered Ashjian into the race to help Reid.

These activities are happening in several states. Moreover, there are also allegations that left-wingers are attending some Tea Party meetings and creating disturbances in public, bringing disfavor and criticism on legitimate Tea Party members.

These activities are totally against the basic fundamental principles of a democracy. The fact that the Democratic Party is turning a blind eye to them underscores its complicity. Obviously, these liberals have no real arguments to substantiate their positions and have to resort to under-handed and unethical actions in order to try and force their agendas on the rest of us. They and their cohorts are to blame for most of the problems facing the country today; they need to be shouted down and removed from the light of day.

WHO IS TO BLAME FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEAKS?

2010-08-11T04:00:00.000-07:00

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a dozen times. My stance on the WikiLeaks case has been and still is: What’s all of the fuss about? The President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, released Top Secret CIA documents shortly after he took office and he did it against the advice of his CIA Director, past Directors and the general public.

So, you know where I stand on that issue.

Still, the idiots in Washington and in the media want to make a big deal out of it. They want WikiLeaks and its owner to spend the rest of his life in purgatory for releasing these national secrets. Well, let’s examine some issues here. To start off with, where did he get his materials? Allegedly, he got them from a low-level enlisted guy. I don’t even know that the Marine had a Top Secret clearance himself; I doubt it, because not everyone in the military gets one. I had one, and I was one of a handful on a very large Air Force Base.

With all of the documents being released, I have to think there are at least one or two more sources. If not, why was this one enlisted guy entrusted with access to all of those documents? Historically, the rules of security around areas where Top Secret documents are manufactured and stored is so intense that it boggles my mind that these documents ever saw the light of day. Obviously, whoever was in charge of security in the location(s) where these documents were kept did not do his job.

But, it goes further. There are supposed to be routine tests of the security in place to determine whether or not the system and the people involved are safeguarding our national secrets according to the established policies and procedures. Any breach is promptly reported all of the way up the chain of command and there are thorough follow-up investigations. If those security tests were not being conducted, why not? And, it’s obvious that it went on for a lengthy period of time and would not have been discovered had it not been for the documents’ release on the WikiLeaks site.

These guys are in charge of our national security. Our national security has been falling apart ever since our President saw fit to turn the subject matter into a political tool. The whole scenario is a horrible joke on the American public. The chickens are out of the coop and the ultimate blame lies with the Commander in Chief.

AGENTS TICKED OFF AT IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS

2010-08-09T04:00:00.000-07:00

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2684-Law-Enforcement-Examiner~y2010m8d5-ICE-chiefs-slammed-with-no-confidence-vote-from-agents

FOR TIME IMMEMORIAL, POLITICS HAS BEEN DIRTY; IT’S TIME TO CLEAN IT UP

2010-08-06T11:14:00.000-07:00

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My fellow Americans, it is a tragedy that we have put ourselves into the position where no worthy man or woman wants to run for public office because, in order to do so, they must be willing to lay down their honorable upbringings and principles and to join the politics of the dirty. We, the citizens of the world, bear the responsibility for allowing politics to be dirty. We are to blame; it’s our fault.

The blame lies with us because we have tolerated it and we are complicit and partners in it because we have turned our backs away from it, rather than faced it head on and removed it from our system. Running for public office in this country should not only be a privilege, it should be an honor and there should be no more honorable a profession than to serve in public office.

We see it in the halls of Washington every day, but it also exists in our states, counties and local governments. We see it in Bell, California, where city officials were paying themselves outlandish salaries and benefits. We see it in Illinois where a governor conspired to obtain political and monetary favors in exchange for naming a President’s favored candidate to fill his unexpired term. We see it in Massachusetts, where a United States Senator who advocates high taxes moves his boat to another state where there are no taxes. We see it in the courts, where an openly gay judge agrees to hear a case regarding gay marriage. We even see it in the press, of all places, where journalists turn their backs on their duties to their fellow countrymen and write stories and news that curry favor with political insiders. Yes, it is tolerated and even expected.

I submit to you that any person at any level of public responsibility who does not hold himself or herself up to the highest standards of morals and ethics should be removed and disgraced.

My God, does it not anger you that there are people running for various offices in this country right now, after all we have been through, who have tarnished personal and political reputations? Doesn’t it anger you more that we are faced with the problem that their opponents are just as tarnished as they are?

Why? Why have we allowed ourselves to evolve into the level of complacency in this country that we can just pass it off as being “politics is dirty” and to buy into the proposition? Why?

Do we have the guts and the fortitude to stand up to the dirty politicians and say, loudly and clearly… “Enough is enough, get the hell out?”

Until we do, no decent worthwhile man or woman is going to want to run for office. They may have all created this mess, those dirty toileticians but, the day has arrived when we must clean it up.

Get out and vote.

IRAN POSES IMMINENT THREAT TO WORLD PEACE

2010-08-04T04:00:00.000-07:00

That’s a mouthful. That’s scary. How can that be?

You and I both know that our government never tells us the truth about such things. If we were to find out today that Iran had produced enough nuclear material to make two bombs, for example, we would be safe to assume that Iran had that nuclear material a year ago and our government knew it. It just came out today, but it happened a year ago. Agreed?

Well, Leon Panetta said on June 27, 2010, that Iran has enough nuclear material to make two bombs. He also said that he felt that Iran could actually produce those bombs within two years. The question is: how far are they really away from having two nuclear bombs? I say that two years is a lie. Will we awaken tomorrow to find out that they already have those two nukes? Wait a minute. If Panetta is saying two, is it actually four or six or ten?

Even nearby nations, normally antagonistic to the United States and sympathetic to Iran, are now concerned. Here’s something more to consider: We know and accept that Iran wants to nuke Israel and most of those countries would be happy to see it happen. But, after Israel, what then?

Iran has had its eyes focused on Iraq for years, even centuries. Being a radical Islamic country, why stop with Israel or Iraq? Egypt has been friends with us, off and on; certainly, they must be a target. Turkey, for sure. Actually, it doesn’t take much imagination to see Iran going after the entire Middle East.

Who would stop them? China? Russia? France?

Iran is another World War II Germany in the making. The United States, fully cognizant of the danger, has been pussy-footing around with Iran for at least five years. This waltz has always been with Iran at the lead. We would like to think we are putting heat on Iran, but they know and we know in our hearts that all we have been doing is drawing lines in the sand and continuously backing up, hissing and pissing in the wind and then drawing new lines.

The only thing that has been accomplished in the last five years, for example, is that Iran is now five years closer to having their nukes. That’s all; nothing else has transpired.

LONDON, (AP January 1, 2012) Two nuclear weapons were detonated in Israel this morning, one in Tel-Aviv and one in Hebron. There has been no word from Israeli authorities as to the extent of damages or loss of lives. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a statement in Tehran claiming victory for Iran and Islam.

We know the day is coming, and soon. Do we, by our passionate display of weakness, want to be to blame for this?

HOW DO YOU RATE YOUR GOVERNMENT?

2010-08-01T04:00:00.000-07:00

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Here are the results as of yesterday on a CBS Poll asking participants to grade the President:
1. The Economy: 17.8% give him a D, 67.6% give him an F = 85.4% unfavorable
2. Foreign Policy: 21.66% give him a D, 59.68% give him an F = 81.34% unfavorable
3. Health Care: 8.31% give him a D, 78.67% give him an F = 86.98% unfavorable
4. Afghanistan: He did much better, 54.77 % D or F and 45.23% C or better
5. Iraq: 59.73% D or F and 40.27% C or better
6. Threat of Terrorism: 21.19% D and 57.52% F = 78.71% unfavorable
7. Energy and the Environment: 21.03% D and 55.04% F = 76.07% unfavorable
8. Social Issues: 18.95% D and 58.84% F = 77.79% unfavorable
9. Bipartisanship: 8.08 % D and 78.2% F = 86.28% unfavorable
10. Overall Grade: 22.25% D and 63.76 % F = 86.02% unfavorable.

Another Poll shows 13% think Congress is doing a good job.

Don’t blame me; I just report the facts.

SEC GOES ON THE MUSCLE: IS IT POLITICAL?

2010-07-31T04:00:00.000-07:00

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The SEC has filed charges against two conservative Texas brothers, Sam and Charles Wyly, who have made major donations to the Republican Party and to GOP candidates in the past, according to the WASHINGTON POST. The SEC alleges that the two brothers committed fraud by using overseas bank accounts to generate more than $550 million through illegal stock trades. The thrust of the allegations is that they bought and sold stock through the overseas banks in U.S. based operations where they served on boards of directors and they failed to disclose those transactions as required by the SEC.

The Wylys have denied the charges.

THE REAL CHAIRMAN BARACK HUISSEIN OBAMA?

2010-07-30T07:09:00.000-07:00

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXSNA5uEXiQ

ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW GUTTED

2010-07-29T04:00:00.000-07:00

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Yesterday, the Judge ruled largely in favor of the United States Government. What this means is that the illustrious Obama Administration can continue to ignore its own immigration laws. This puts Arizona in the untenable position of being invaded by illegal aliens, being forced to pay the tab, being subjected to the crime and other anti-social effects, and being unable to do a damned thing about it.

What is the Sam Hell is this country coming to? Watch the boys on Pennsylvania Avenue find a way to twist the blame for this to us, the victims.

As for the Judge, look for Obama to name her to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals as soon as an opening comes up.

WHY WIKILEAK LEAKS ARE OKAY BY ME

2010-07-28T08:00:00.000-07:00

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On April 16, 2009, President Obama ordered the release of four Justice Department memos that described in detail the techniques used to interrogate Khalid Sheik Mohamed and other high-value terrorists. Many current and former high-level intelligence officials objected. Mike Hayden, former CIA Director said: "You had CIA directors in a continuous unbroken stream to 1995 calling saying, 'Don't do this.'"

News of the impending release of the documents was met with outrage by Members of Congress and Americans alike. In addition to objections from the men who led the agency for a collective 14 years, the President also heard objections from the agency's covert field operatives. A few weeks earlier, Leon Panetta had arranged for the eight top officials of the Clandestine Service to meet with the President. It was highly unusual for these clandestine officers to visit the Oval Office, and they used the opportunity to warn the President that releasing the memos would put agency operatives at risk. The President reportedly listened respectfully -- and then ignored their advice and released the highly secret memos.

With these actions, Barack Obama arguably did more damage to America's national security in his first 100 days of office than any President in American history.

If you are going to hold anyone's feet to the fire for the leaking of highly sensitive material, you should begin with the President of the United States.

OBAMA: BOW DOWN AND DO AS I SAY?

2010-07-28T04:00:00.000-07:00

It seems as if Obama has sent forth his emissaries into all the corners of the land to ascertain what it is that the peasants want done about this or that, and then he has set courses to do exactly the opposite. Could it be a battle of wills? Could it be that he has determined that “change” cannot be had until the peasants become totally subservient to him? Must he obliterate their wills before he can have his?

Against the will of the public, he passed TARP and stimulus. Much against the will of the people, he used lies, tricks, political demands, and outright threats and bribery to pass the Health Care Plan. He has stood firmly against every major position of Americans everywhere. Now, we find out that both he and Harry Reid are conspiring on how to ram the public option government-run health care plan up our rears whether we like it, or not.

If that doesn’t get your bowels into an uproar, try this one on for size: FULL AND COMPLETE AMNESTY FOR ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS IS IN THE WORKS. Not only is full and complete amnesty quietly working its way through the Czarist Empire at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but it is also on its way down the street to The Hill and Obama has not even given one iota of thought to closing the border with Mexico. NOW do we have the attention of your bowels?

The Lord, His Royal Highness, Ruler of the Empire of Darkness is well aware of the fact that he is almost to the very bottom of the polls, but he cares not. He plunges forward, oblivious to the will of the people, determined to triumph on every issue. When the Court ruled against his shutdown of deep water drilling, he side-stepped the ruling by finding another reason and he shut the drilling down again. When 73% of the American people stood firmly against his new Health Care Plan, he lied about the costs, he lied about the benefits, he lied about the impact on Seniors, he threatened Congress and he got it passed; now, it is slowly emerging that the budget figures were skewed, the benefits were misstated and the seniors are going to get the shaft and he’s going after his public option.

When the people rise up and form groups standing against his tyranny, (Tea Parties), he sends out his legions to disrupt their meetings and to marginalize them by calling them “racists, Astroturf, and right-wing extremists.”

Obama is bound and determined to have his way. Those in Congress who have allowed him to grab and assert this power are complicit in his evil doing. In a mistaken belief that he cares about them, they have bent to his will and fornicated themselves into impending losses at the November polls. Undaunted, uncaring, Obama pushes forward, trashing anyone who stands in his way. He’s going after Fox News, talk radio and bloggers; it is obvious that he has issued orders to his cabal to find a way to shut them all down. He has commandeered the press and the media and turned them into anti-American propaganda machines; that’s the flat out truth with no exaggeration.

United we stand, divided we fall. We peasants must stand together, ready and willing to fight to our last breaths to take our country back. I for one will not go down in the annals of mankind as being an American who was to blame for the destruction of our country because I bowed to the almighty power of a make-believe henchman.

OUR NATIONAL SECURITY PERIL: Obama Shirks His Responsibilities

2010-07-21T04:00:00.000-07:00

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

We all know where this story begins, with the Administration's open attack on agents of the Central Intelligence Agency and other national security branches who have been charged with gathering international and domestic information pertinent to the security of our country. Where it has led is not only frightening, but repugnant as well; today, our borders are wide open, our allies are sharing less information with us, we are allowing those who threaten our civil rights to vote be immune from prosecution, we are fomenting hatred among radical groups, we are fanning the flames of racial and religious discrimination and we continue to keep our ports, borders and airways wide open to terrorists. We are wide open to attack both from abroad and from within.

The fact is, thousands of illegal aliens other than Mexicans cross our southern border from countries that sponsor terrorism, and it has been deliberately concealed and covered over by our government. Let me repeat this: thousands of illegal aliens other than Mexicans cross our southern border from countries that sponsor terrorism and our government is not only doing nothing about it, but is choosing to cover it up. A Phoenix facility holds illegal border crossers from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen and who knows where else?

Congress knows it. The President knows it. It leaked out in the press a few weeks ago and the story got promptly snuffed. Our President, bowing to indignation and pressure from Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer over the illegal immigration issue, decided to handle the situation by sending 1,200 troops to cover the California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas borders with Mexico.

Now, one must ask, how many more terrorists are sneaking in from Canada? As crewmen on shipping vessels? Or, as passengers on international flights… the ones we don’t catch… with the morale among TSA agents running at low ebbs? When a state, inundated by violent crime, kidnappings and murder, takes it upon itself to try and force the Government to enforce its own laws, why does this Administration choose to display indignation and to bring suit?

How many of these terrorists who are now here in our country are hiding out in mosques? How many of them are being unwittingly harbored by “sanctuary cities?” Are they in your neighborhood? Do they carry poison for your water system, materials to start forest fires, bombs? Are they recruiting the kid next door to be a member?

The plain truth is that this President, by his abject failure to exercise his duties, has exposed our country to a far greater risk of attack, both externally and internally than we have ever faced in our entire 234 years as a nation. And the obvious fact that he knows what he is doing should lead to only one of two conclusions: He either shares their desire to bring down this country or he is the dumbest President to ever occupy the office.

In reading this, you have become aware of what is happening to our national security. You may doubt what I have alleged and you may think that America is too safe with all of its history and military might to be concerned about such dangers. I urge you not to dismiss it, but to research it for yourselves.

For the sake of our country and our children, we cannot allow ourselves to be at blame for the failure to secure our country when our government will not.

THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX

2010-07-17T18:27:00.000-07:00

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Remember that highly secret meeting Barrack had with Hillary back in 2008? Haven't you wondered what was said in there while Bill cooled his heels over at Monica's place?

Let's face it, everyone is wondering what in the Sam Hell Obama could be up to. Why would he push himself so very hard in his first 16 months in office is he was really planning on sticking around for two terms? Could it be that a deal was struck, wherein Obama agreed to bow out and let Hillary run in 2012 if she would support his radical far-left agendas?

Once passed, you see, it's all but impossible to reverse this legislation Obama has shoved down our throats, and the cause of Socialism would be well-advanced even if they did have to back away from some programs. Then, after Hillary finishes her two terms in 2020, the far-left would be in a much better position to come back full-force again and complete their objectives.

Just a passing thought. Think about it. Think outside of the box.

NAACP STIRS UP RACISM

2010-07-14T04:00:00.000-07:00

The NAACP has passed a resolution claiming that Tea Partiers are racists; the resolution was adopted during the NAACP annual convention in Kansas City. The final wording of the resolution won't be released until the NAACP's national board of directors approves it during its meeting in October. But the original called for the NAACP to "educate its membership and the community that this movement is not just about higher taxes and limited government." It said something could evolve "and become more dangerous for that small percentage of people that really think our country has been taken away from them."

Well, I’m a Tea Partier, so that makes me a racist according to the NAACP. After all, it’s all about labels, isn’t it? Find a group of people you don’t like and put a label on them. Call them names. Denigrate them. Marginalize them. Well, it’s too bad, NAACP. You see, Obama has already called me a racist. So have Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. So, if you think you’re hot shit because you called me a racist, you’ve got another thing coming. You’re just a Johnny Come Lately.

There’s something you really do need to know, NAACP. Over the last 20 or 30 years, racism in this country really started to die out. Now, you and your political friends have stirred up the embers so much that every time I see a black person, I cringe. That’s right; I no longer assume you’re an average Joe or a nice guy, because I have quit looking at you as being a human being. You have just reminded me of something I had long ago forgotten; you’re black… black as the ace of spades. Thanks for reminding me.

While you’re at it, do me a favor and go after the Jews. Then, maybe you can take on the Chinks and the goombahs and the spics and the ragheads. It won’t take long for you and your friends to divide this country up more. Is that the game you’re playing, divide and conquer?

Well, let me tell you something. If you live in this country and you believe in this country, then you’re an American and that’s all that matters. But, if you want to go around stirring up shit, then you’re not an American, you’re nothing but a black. I’ll be damned if I will sit still and take the blame for your bull, for your shit disturbing.

If that offends you, go grab some ham hocks and lima beans and get over it.

ARE WE A NATION OF SHEEP? Or, Are We Ready To Take Our Country Back?

2010-07-10T09:35:00.000-07:00

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I just heard it a day or so ago a denigration of the “Take Back Our Country” slogan. It came from one of those know-it-all elitist left-wing snobs who thinks he is an all-knowing, all-seeing disciple of the Messiah. The gist was this: It’s not our country to take back. It belongs to them, the all-seers. They have the duty, as disciples, to see that we do not get too fat, use too much salt, burn our meat, have high cholesterol, have children who have not been propagandized, speak our minds or think for ourselves. Therefore, they argue, it is not our country to take back; it’s theirs, so that they can control those things that might have disastrous impacts upon our lives or the lives of the illegal immigrant.

Are we going to continue to let them lead us down a path of sure oblivion, or are we ready to show them whose country this really is? Let that question fester in your mind until November. Nurture it well, because we all need to be madder than hell when we step into the voting booths.

THE RIGHT TO PROTECT YOURSELF

2010-07-07T04:00:00.000-07:00

When you sit back and take stock of what this government is trying to do to us, you can’t help but wonder where our country disappeared to. Our government is overtly taking steps to try and prevent us from having any method of self defense against an armed intruder or attack, such as guns and knives.

Down there in Arizona, our government is proactively setting out to keep the state from protecting its citizens against illegals and the problems that illegals bring. In fact, Eric Holder’s reaction to the news that an Arizona sheriff has been overtly threatened with his life by drug runners was to go ahead and file a lawsuit trying to prevent Arizona’s new law to go into effect.

Muslims bombed the World Trade Center twice and Muslims have been directly identified as being involved in many, many other attempts at terrorism in our country and our President has sent word over to NASA that they need to try and get along better with Muslims. How sweet can it get?

Obama wants Fox off the air, as well as anyone who talks badly about his administration. He wants to prevent us from knowing what is going on in our government and he is denying us the right to stand up and protest about it. As he and his cohorts, Pelosi and Reid, bombard the Tea Parties and other concerned citizens with claims of “right wing extremism who are inciting domestic terrorism,” he is also busy rewriting American history to obliterate the events that established a government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” as the bulwark of liberty in the western hemisphere.

Yet, as some great American once said, if we don’t stand up and exercise our God-given rights, we lose them. In the same vein, if we don’t open our eyes and ears and discover what damage our government is doing to us, we lose the right to do so?

We have the right to protect ourselves not only against the violent criminal, but against the assertive Marxists as well. We are not the ones who are to blame for the many assaults on our country and our safety and we have every right to take whatever prudent steps are necessary to protect ourselves, both verbally and physically. If we see danger, we have the right to avert it.

If we see politicians and bureaucrats exposing us to varied dangers, we have the right and the obligation to remove them from office.

GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY

2010-07-03T04:00:00.000-07:00

I DIDN’T MEAN TO LISTEN TO RUSH, I REALLY DIDN’T

2010-06-30T04:00:00.000-07:00

I was in the middle of a Chinese fire drill, scrambling from one town to another to put together last-minute details for a business trip, and I happened to turn on the radio; lo and behold, Rush Limbaugh was on the air. Now, Rush is not my favorite show, by far. He’s right about many things, I will admit, but he’s just too bombastic for me, too narcissistic, if you know what I mean. In those respects, he’s much like Obama. Rush fancies himself as being the God of conservatism in this country and Obama believes that his is the Omnipotent One. I guess they have forgotten about the Unknown Scribbler?

In any event, Rush got onto something. No, it wasn’t a rant. But, he started talking about Obama and his belief that Obama is deliberately sabotaging efforts to stop the oil leak and clean up the Gulf. Don’t know if you know this or not, but they have halted the building of sand bars to keep the oil away from the beaches because some government ninny doesn’t like the source of the sand. Cleanup barges have continuously been prevented from going out to skim oil and someone mentioned that there were other skimming rigs located elsewhere in the country that could come to help and the Administration prevented that move because there “might” be another oil accident somewhere else and those skimmers would be needed there.

Rush went on to suggest that Obama is doing these things deliberately to detract us from the economy, unemployment and the immigration issue, and I agree; never let a good crisis go to waste. In fact, if the crisis gets bad enough, Obama could declare a state of national emergency and glom onto all kinds of power…even suspending the Constitution. In fact, he could manage to get the leak plugged around a month before the election, and then hire 300,000 people to come and clean up the mess. Unemployment would decline, there might be some improvement in the economy and Obama could ride the favorable wave of his "decisive leadership" to rescue his Democrats in Congress.

Would he do such a dastardly thing? Look at some of the many dirty tricks he has pulled so far, including the Health Care debacle; of COURSE he would! In a heartbeat! In fact, he’s already put the word out that he wants to pull the Gulf workers off the job because of the tropical storm. “They could be out two weeks or more,” comes official word from the White House.

Floating out of the White House gas machine Friday was the word that the Administration is working on a plan to have the President issue an Executive Order declaring amnesty for all illegal aliens. Have you ever noticed how Obama, taking a cue from Clinton, always lets these gaseous bombs waft out on Fridays after everyone has gone home for the weekend?

We really need to start paying closer attention to what this guy is doing. I agree with Rush in this case that Obama has committed far too many bad acts for them to be chalked up to mistakes, stupidity, or anything but the actions of a very shrewd man. Start asking yourself “Why?”

OBAMA'S DYNASTY IS CRUMBLING

2010-06-23T04:00:00.000-07:00

General Stanley McChrystal is on his way out after criticizing President Obama in a ROLLING STONES interview. McChrystal was summoned to appear in the White House today to explain his remarks to the effect that he has been left “on the outside” in his dealings with the White House and stated that he had been in the untenable predicament of having to sell “an unsellable position” with respect to troops and the conduct of the war in Afghanistan. Against mounting public pressure, Obama had delayed for months the decision to increase troop levels in Afghanistan while McChrystal had said the United States was in a “no win” situation unless the troops were provided.

McChrystal has apologized to Obama, but has undoubtedly burned his bridges. "I have enormous respect and admiration for President Obama and his national security team, and for the civilian leaders and troops fighting this war and I remain committed to ensuring its successful outcome."

In the meanwhile, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag has announced his resignation effective in July. Orszag has been a key part of Obama's economic team during the passage of the economic stimulus bill and this year's health care reform legislation. He was formerly in charge of the Congressional Budget Office before the CBO provided figures that did not suit Obama’s agenda in getting the stimulus and health care packages passed against the public will.

Rumors are also circulating in Washington that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will be resigning after the November elections due to “frustration” with Obama’s inner circle of key advisers. Emanuel has denied the rumors, but word is that he has been set up to be the “fall guy” if Democrats get slaughtered in the elections.

Obama has apparently become disengaged with the many major problems facing the nation at this juncture. He has failed miserably in his handling of the Gulf Oil crisis. He seems insensitive to the growing national immigration issue and to Arizona’s plight in dealing with the crisis. He has given weak response to Iran’s flagrant violations of international pressures against that country’s nuclear ambitions and has been less than effective in dealing with North Korea’s similar programs.

The insurance industry has confirmed that it is increasing health care premiums. New benefits of the health care program kick in now and the companies are seeking to cover the increased costs. Obama summoned key company officials to the White House for an ass-chewing session and threats of industry takeover by the government, a move essentially turning the industry into government run health care. This move is being made amidst revelations that the costs associated with the program are much higher than revealed as it was being shoved down Americans throats and as doctors across the country are refusing to see Medicare patients due to declining Medicare reimbursements.

The economy is not cooperating. On the one hand, Vice-President Biden is claiming that the stimulus plan has worked, but Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac remain buried in a sea of red ink, unemployment is not improving, and the national debt is on the verge of dragging the company into anarchy.

With these problems and more facing the Presidency, there appears to be rampant indecision in the Oval Office and Obama has earned a reputation of being calloused and ambivalent. His polls and the polls of his Congressional lapdogs are sinking so fast that one can only hope and pray that they will land at the bottom of the Gulf and plug the damned hole.

OBAMA BLASTS EUROPEAN UNION

2010-06-20T04:00:00.000-07:00

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Faced with the reality that his economic stimulus plans have not worked and that his ERA programs have not lessened unemployment, President Barrack Hussein Obama reacted as anyone could easily predict to the news that the members of the European Union are drastically cutting back spending in an effort to avoid financial calamity… by saying that their actions could hurt the U.S. economy. In other words, he’s not accepting responsibility and blame for his own mismanagement; instead, he’s transferring blame to the European Union when, in fact, we should be following their lead and cutting back on spending here at home.

Obama continues to plow ahead speaking, as Native Americans would say, “with forked tongue.” On the one hand, he tells us that the country needs to quit spending and on the other hand he continues to spend our money hand over fist. His administration has refused to account for the TARP money and ERA money that has been allocated and, “let me be clear,” the Republicans have not pursued that question, either. He’s forging ahead with pressure to pass his Cap and Trade legislation and to shove tens of billions of dollars into another economic stimulus.

The Mohegan Sun, a Native American Casino in Connecticut, has received over $54 million in stimulus money at the behest of Senator Charles Dodd. That casino made $1.3 billion in 2009. The Obama Administration has turned a blind eye to this type of blatant misappropriation of taxpayer funds. This is but one example of misspending of ERA and stimulus funds over the past 18 months.

With all of this spending going on, unemployment hangs on at 10.0%, the first-time filings for unemployment benefits soared last week to 472,000, retail sales are down and other ominous signs point to the fact that Obama’s tax and spend agenda has failed the nation in a time of desperate need. Still, instead of listening to the growing clamor of economists who are calling for reduced spending and reduced taxes in order to get small business back into the hiring mode, he blindly continues to go forward to where no successful man has gone before.

He’s not akin to a drunken sailor; rather, he’s like a drunken gambler in a casino, out of money to play with and begging the credit manager for a higher credit limit. And, he’s gambling with the taxpayer’s money and the well-being of our grand children.

Only Congress can rein this drunk in, but Congress has been party to his drunken antics. Even the Republicans, now trying to retreat into a false sense of conservatism, were there at the spending trough in late 2008 to hand over $850 billion to Geithner and Bernanke without restriction. It is apparent that, in order for us to force Congress into cutting Obama’s spending, we need to remove every Member of Congress who is up for re-election.

Obama suggests that the damned European Union is just trying to make him look bad. This is all their fault. It’s time to quit blaming Bush and pick on someone else, and God forbid Obama should ever own up to his own pathological shortcomings.

This is just one more compelling reason for us to stand together, shoulder-to-shoulder and arm-to-arm as we move forward to take back our country.

POSTAGE STAMP UPSIDE DOWN

2010-06-16T04:00:00.000-07:00

I begin this post with an ominous thought. Back in the early days of our country, when people were coerced into writing things they did not wish to write but wanted to convey a situation of distress, the practice was to paste the stamp on the envelope upside down. So it is that today, I began pasting my American flag stamps on my mail upside down because we are, most assuredly, a nation in distress. I urge you, too, to follow the practice until we get our country turned back to the correct direction.

Now, as to the President’s speech last night…. It was too little, too late. You get the feeling that they only reason he made it was because the Democrats in Congress are sick and tired of hearing about the oil spill from their constituents. There was nothing new in it. There were no alternatives offered to either fix the problem or clean up the mess; rather, he indicated to me that he wants more money for some other commission to be formed to look into it and resolve it. AND, of course, he wants his Cap & Trade Energy Bill passed and he doesn’t care if we can afford it or not.

That’s basically what I heard. There was nothing new, just the same old shoulder shrugging and finger wagging that I have seen for the last 18 months. His reactions are to point blame and seize assets. Frankly, if I was Tony Hayward with BP, I’d be inclined to tell the President to “buzz off.”

BP is solidly to blame here, and I agree with that. I was one of the first, if not THE first, to wag MY finger and proclaim BP/ARCO as being the villain. They have misled everyone involved from minute one. As I have said since two or three days after the rig blew, BP’s traditional cost cutting and lack of safety was the direct cause of the disaster. Mark my words, BP will be dragged, kicking and screaming, into many Courts of law before this story is over and people get paid.

One has to wonder why this President didn’t arrange to meet up with Hayward and tour the rig site and Gulf by chopper together, to then sit down with top government and BP officials to have an eyeball-to-eyeball discussion. The "hide behind your Oval Office desk and teleprompters, spewing forth confrontational ass kicking comments routine" is no more likely to draw cooperation and a spirit of urgency than does lying through your teeth and cramming a health care plan down people’s throats that they do not want.

This was just another day of audacious Presidential pomposity, as far as I’m concerned.

I believe that our President came into office with an agenda to firmly place in action a series of events that would centralize every last drop of power in the White House before the November elections, and he has been distracted from his objective several times. He just can’t bear to turn his back on those objectives and to deal with the more pressing issues of the nation. Every day that goes by where his events don’t kick in as he planned gets him one day closer to November, and that seems to be relentlessly gnawing at him.

The momentum that carried him into office is now eroding. The polls reflect that the pendulum is starting to swing against him. His political capital is now confined to just a handful of Congress; the rest are doing their best to distance themselves from him in such a manner that it doesn’t amount to outright rebellion.

The fact that Obama didn’t even have the courtesy to respond to an offer from Royal Dutch Petroleum, (Shell), made in the beginning days of this disaster to send help speaks volumes about his in ability to function when he is not in control of his own diabolical agenda.

Don't blame me; I'm just the messenger.

OBAMA LOSING HIS GRIP; Long, Hot Summer in Washington Begins

2010-06-09T04:00:00.000-07:00

OBAMA LAUNCHES WHITE HOUSE CAMPAIGN TO SAVE HEALTH CARE PLAN;

Unemployment, Economy, Oil Spill, Immigration Take Back Seat

PELOSI GETS HAMMERED AT HEALTH PLAN CONFERENCE;

Protesters Don’t Like the Plan, Shout Her Down and Throw Objects

SECOND OIL LEAK DISCOVERED;
Two Additional Plumes Found Floating 3,400 Under Water

Yes, a second oil leak has been hiding from Americans since at least April 30 and, as this post is being written, those involved are still stonewalling the news. Recent satellite photos show oil around the Ocean Saratoga Rig, operated by Diamond Offshore for Taylor Energy. Taylor has reportedly instructed Diamond Offshore to “plug and abandon” the well. The rig was damaged by a hurricane in 2004 and Diamond Offshore was told in 2009 to plug the well according to “sources.” This would seem to indicate that the well could have been leaking for over a year and Taylor Energy is not talking.

In the meanwhile, it has been discovered that pools of oil are gathering underseas at about 3,400 feet and this discovery leads to the probability that marine life will ultimately be extensively damaged. It appears that BP has known of this for “some time” but did not disclose the fact until they were recently asked in a press conference about the possibility.

President Obama, now faced with a multitude of festering problems which include Middle East tensions in and around Israel as well as belligerent rhetoric from North Korea and Iran, has decided to take to the road and try to gain support for his cram down health care bill.

Don’t you just wonder who in the hell is running this country while Obama ignores these issues?

BP/ARCO HAS NO ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY

2010-06-05T09:53:00.000-07:00

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Anyone who thinks that BP is getting unfairly criticized for the Gulf Oil disaster has not done their homework. Anyone who thinks that BP is the shining star of environmental and safety track records needs to take an hour or two and start digging around on the internet. Anyone who wants to come to the defense of BP/ARCO is either insane or an attorney looking to get rich. Eric Holder is definitely not the first government official to threaten a criminal investigation into BP/ARCO’s activities.

So, why doesn’t BP straighten up its insolent corporate act? Because, historically speaking, BP has made more money by operating the way it does. With the hundreds of billions of dollars of operations they have around the world, they have figured it out that they can shave corners and cuts costs in all of them and, should anything bad happen in one of them they will have saved far more than enough to cover the costs, fines and legal fees involved.

In Yerington, Nevada, its shuttered Yerington Anaconda Copper Mine is an environmental disaster that is polluting ground water with uranium and chemicals. For almost ten years, BP has stalled, stalled and stalled on the cleanup of the site. Many unilateral orders of consent have been issued by the EPA to prod BP into accomplishing what little it has accomplished so far. But, the magnitude of the problem continues to grow day by day.

If you want a one-stop source of information about BP’s past misdeeds around the world and how it has handled that Yerington Mine disaster, check out www.yamsite.info.

I heard the argument that, if we boycott BP/ARCO at the pumps, we could drive them out of business and then we, the taxpayers, would be left holding the bag for the cleanup costs in the Gulf. That’s very naïve. The plain simple fact of the matter is that BP/ARCO is not going to go bankrupt. It has dozens of operating divisions and can sever any one of them at any time, including U.S. operations, and never look back. They have associations and operations all over the world including Iran.

We’re going to end up paying through the nose for this disaster anyway. They will fight in court every step of the way, and we’ll be stuck with the legal fees. Historically, you will see them fighting until some Court hits them with $500 million here and there and then they’ll threaten to appeal and offer to settle out of court for $100 million and they’ll get away with it. If they’ve spent $1 billion in the Gulf already on this cleanup, that is 1/25th of the money they make every year. That $1 billion will get written off against tax liabilities and we are going to therefore be stuck for it anyway.

We would like to proclaim that we are not to blame for the way BP does business, but we are. We allow their cavalier attitude toward safety and the environment to continue; our courts and agencies let them off the hook much too easily, and we continue to buy their gas although they have been in trouble in several states for their pricing strategies.

As for me, I’ll be damned if I’ll buy one ounce of their gas; I’ll walk first.

ARE OBAMA, HOLDER & NAPOLITANO LIARS, OR NOT?

2010-06-02T04:00:00.000-07:00

YOU DECIDE

http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf

WE'RE NOT TO BLAME

2010-05-29T10:00:00.000-07:00

So, let's rid ourselves of the ones who are!

WE ARE NOT EQUAL

2010-05-26T04:00:00.000-07:00

Contrary to what President Obama would have you believe, we are not equal. We may be created equal, but that is the end of that. Some people go to college, some drop out of high school; some become doctors or lawyers, some work on oil rigs; some encounter extensive health problems, others live to old age and die healthy. We could create an endless list of individual differences we acquire in life that make us “not equal.”

Some people end up being extensively wealthy and others end up without two coins to rub together. Our President would have us subscribe to his Socialist-Marxist ideology that says we must take from the rich and give to the poor until everyone is back to being equal. If he wants everyone to go back to being equal, we must return to our days of nativity; there will be no doctors, lawyers, oil workers, cops, or Presidents, for that matter. We will all do the same thing in life, whatever that might be, and we will acquire the same levels of wealth. If I have $10,000 in the bank, so will you and Obama. We will all wear the same khaki uniforms and march to the same drummers. We will have a universal state religion and all others will be banned.

Those are the objectives of the “social justice” and “economic justice” programs current being thrust upon us. Everything this administration is engaged in is focused on making us all equal in every respect.

How ludicrous can you get?

What they really mean to say, when they tell us about “equal social justice” and “equal economic justice” is that they have total control over every aspect of our lives and we have no control over any aspect. Anyone who tries to break that mold must be eliminated. Glenn Beck must be eliminated. I must be eliminated. Millions of Americans must be eliminated. You have three choices: (1) go along with the program, (2) leave the country, or (3) be eliminated. There are no other alternatives unless… you are willing to stand united, stand together shoulder-to-shoulder, arm-to-arm and deny them their objectives at every turn. Stop them in their tracks.

We are a nation of God-fearing people. We live according to religious teachings that are morally and ethically sound. These teachings are contrary to their objectives. They believe they have the rights to lie, cheat, steal, plunder and rape. In order to accomplish their objectives, one of the things they must do is to marginalize or take over religions. Nancy Pelosi, making no bones about it, recently started to tell religions what to preach and how to preach it. Obama operatives are already in contact with various religious leaders peddling their influence and exerting their “authorities.” You will soon be hearing about “equal social justice” and “equal economic justice” as being teachings of Christ or God; nowhere in any religious scriptures is there a call for total equality, because that cannot be achieved and it contrary to the spirit of man.

Obama and his henchmen may try and tell us that we need to be equal, but we need to rise up and rid ourselves of these demons in our midst. Judging by the polls and by the elections so far, we’re off to a good start. Let’s hope and pray that we still have the right to vote in this country in November; I’ll guarantee you that Obama has been reading the Hugo Chavez strategy on how to ignore a constitutional requirement for elections.

On the other hand, if we succeed in forcing them out and if we regain control of our country, is there going to be any money left to run it with? Don't blame me, I just posed the question.

WHITE HOUSE LAUNCHES OFFENSIVE AGAINST FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

2010-05-23T08:43:00.000-07:00

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The White House is engaging in a highly sophisticated control of the press. Attempts by a President to prevent negative news stories from getting published are not unprecedented. However, this far-reaching control of the President's message transcends all boundaries and appears to firmly place the stamp of Marxism on the White House agenda. White House aids have all but shut out the Press Corps from any meaningful dialogue; when the Press Corps has its daily briefings, they consist of dancing, dodging and ducking any questions of substance. The White House has banned any...any and all contact by the press with Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan; an internal White House staffer did ask her some mundane questions and the interview was released in the trappings of authentic journalism.

There is growing evidence that White House "operatives" have been surfing the Internet and systematically scrubbing any and all material which contains any historical information regarding Obama's past associations or relative to current Czars and other close advisers. At the same time, the White House has apparently launched an offensive against all advertisers on the Glenn Beck Show, warning that their continued advertising will result in serious and dire consequences.

One needs to consider these events in the full context of what other actions have been taken by the Administration since Obama took office. When you look at it in that aspect, you can only reach one conclusion, and it is not pretty. Our country is being attacked from within. The ominous warnings that appeared on this blog and MY AMERICAN OPINION long before Obama was elected are coming true. Our country is in peril.

We have to do something about this and, at the rate progress is now being made by the Czars and other Administration officials, I'm beginning to think that the November 2010 elections may be our last free elections in this country. That's scary talk. While Obama and his henchmen are doing everything they can to drive us apart, racially, economically, socially, politically, religiously.... we must do just the opposite. We must stand together, shoulder to shoulder, arm to arm, and we must make every attempt to cut off the head of this ugly snake that is poisoning our country. We must stand united, because divided we will fail.

POLITICAL BIG WIGS STUMPED OVER VOTE?

2010-05-19T18:50:00.000-07:00

The Republicans have been salivating to no end over the prospect that they are going to reap major, major gains this year. Hannity and Rove have been predicting a Democrat slaughter like no other ever before in history. They have not, however, been reading my blogs. So, one more time, let me explain it to you knuckleheads.

We American citizens, the ones paying the way for all of the things that are wrong with this country, are tired of it. We’re tired of the double-talk, the lies, the disinformation, the misinformation, the relentless spending, the innuendo talk, the corruption, the ethics violations, the partying, the lobbying, the deal making… we’re just flat tired of all of the bullshit. This is not about Democrats vs. Republicans; it’s about us vs. them… the proletariat vs. the elitist Progressives. And, it’s about big government vs. our Constitution.

When it comes to the sad state our government is in, the Republicans are just as much to blame as the Democrats. And. As I’ve said countless times, if the Republicans want to have another chance to mend their ways, (they sure as hell blew their last chance), they need to show us some strong leadership and an undeniable commitment to our country. We have seen neither. The Republicans have weak leadership at the National Committee level. They have not come out with any solid commitments as to where they stand on anything. In our eyes, the only reason they made any noise at all about the health care debacle is because we, the rank and file, were flat ticked off about it.

As far as we are concerned, we want to replace every incumbent in office… to clean house and to send the message that we are taking our country back. Now, as Barry Goldwater would say, it’s time to “shit or get off the pot.” If the Republicans expect to make gains in Congress, they know what they need to do. The fact that they have not recognized our sincerity of purpose for what it is or stepped up to the plate just lends credence to the proposition that they are part of the problem.

WE did not create the national debt, the immigration problem, the economic mess, the energy crisis, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, the Health Care lie, TARP… We surely know who was in on all of this and we surely know that we are going to continue to stand together, shoulder to shoulder, elbow to elbow, until every last person in Washington who has had anything to do with this gross endangerment to our country has been removed.

If you want to make political hay out of it, you need to clean up your act big time and cut out the lap dances because the music is about to end.

WE'RE NOT TO BLAME

2010-05-15T08:03:00.000-07:00

They ALL Sound Like Obama