NostraDumbAss

Democratic True Colors

2009-10-13T17:53:00.002+01:00

When George Bush was in office, the Democratic party spouted from the highest buildings that what we needed was discourse, to listen to the voice of both parties, of all the people and to make sound decisions.

Now, the Democratic party wants silence. Bob Beckel said it best today on Fox News in a discussion about socializing health care. He stated that the Republicans have done everything to block the bill bringing nothing to the table. His opponent corrected him stating that the Republicans are all for Health Care Reform, but using a different approach - Beckel quickly jumped in and, using the standard left-wing debate tactic of talking over his opponent stated that - we shouldn't give any air time to the Republican point of view.

There it is - the true colors of the Democratic party. Now sit down, shut up and swallow it - your medicine that is.

The difference between the left and the right - in a nutshell

2009-10-13T01:24:00.002+01:00

2005
Pres Bush: Unless we do something soon, by 2042 the system (medicare, medicaid and Social Security) will be completely broke.
Dems: Boo! No!
Speaker Pelosi in the following days: Silence

Bush: What's great about our country is that people have the right to disagree with the president, and many have.

2009
Pelosi: The CIA Lies!
White House: Fox News Lies!
Pres Obama: My plan will not cover illegals.
Joe Wilson: You Lie! ... I'm sorry.
Dems: We do not accept your apology for this OUTRAGE! And if you don't apologize you will be punished!
Pelosi: Wilson must apologize!
Wilson: I'm Sorry.
Dems: We do not accept your apology for this OUTRAGE!
Pelosi: Wilson must apologize!
Wilson: I will not apologize again.
Pelosi. See how Republicans are? He refuses to apologize.

The 4th Estate Has Become the 5th Column

2009-09-17T20:13:00.002+01:00

For months many have been talking about what I coined as the "lame-stream media", historically referred to as the 4th estate.

The 4th estate refers to the media as the watch-dog of the government, the industry earned and deserved the term - that is until this latest generation in which the 4th estate has become our nation's 5th column. It is this latest generation of reporters who either distort our out-right lie about the news in order to change the views of the citizens of this nation in such a way as to push their own political agenda.

Consider if you will the falsehoods and flat out lies reported by Dan Rather regarding our previous President George Bush. It was later proven that Dan was indeed knowledgeable of the whole fiasco yet allowed his staff to take the blame. Certainly there was enough to be anger with President Bush about without having to create new issues out of the vapors.

In the latest rounds, the media has remained silent regarding so many questions surrounding our current president as to make even those completely bereft of any real political knowledge to ask what the hell is going on in the news rooms across America? With all that is going on, and the media's failure to report it - journalists are flabbergasted at their failing viewership unable to understand why people are turning in droves to alternative sources of information and news.

In recent months we have seen a complete failure of the so-called 4th estate to discuss any issue of concern regarding the current presidency. I cannot remember any time in my life in which the media was quite literally so in bed with a political party. Even the Van Jones fiasco wasn't reported by any of the lame-stream media until after his resignation.

Today, on CNN Rick Sanchez lead with a teaser on the ACORN scandal in which a young man and woman took it upon themselves to walk into ACORN offices across America claiming to be a pimp and prostitute seeking assistance in establishing their business of bringing into the country, young girls between the ages of 13-15 for the purposes of prostitution (child molestation) and at every turn - ACORN employees were there willing to help.

Despicable.

But instead of calling for a federal investigation of the organization to which our President is supposedly closely tied - Rick's voice-over on the teaser asked the question: "Despicable acts by a few, a well financed targeted conspiracy or both?". Rick fails to consider the other obvious option (d), "an organization which is rotted from the roots to the leaves". It would be akin, and as irresponsible as rolling film on the KKK with a voice over asking ... "Despicable acts by a few, a well financed targeted conspiracy or both?" and failing to consider that the organization itself had to be put out of our misery.

ACORN's response that they were simply playing along holds about as much water and believability as a well worn piece of cheesecloth. When someone walks up to you and admits to committing a federal crime then asks for your support - you do one thing. You notify the authorities immediately and let the cops sort it out. Period.

Is there any thinking person left in this country who doesn't want a federal investigation of this agency? Is there any thinking person who doesn't believe that the media industry is become a mere shadow of what it once was, a joke, an embarrassment to the likes of Edward R. Murrow and other journalistic giants?

It the immortal words and the unforgettable voice of Walter Kronkite- "And that's the way it is: Thursday, September 17, 2009"

Not the change I voted for! How about you?

2009-08-12T01:52:00.016+01:00

For, the past eight years many Americans have been pretty frustrated with the Administration. We have heard everything from extremist conspiracy nut-jobs spouting theories about how the twin towers of New York city were actually demolished using explosives and remote control planes at the order of George Bush, to chants of "Bush lied, kids died".

We watched as the likes of Cindy Sheehan protested the war (or rather the death of her son) by camping outside the former President's residence for an inordinate amount of time (didn't she have any responsibilities in the world?).

We listened as the Democratic Party railed against the Republican Party - all the while screaming (literally) that dissent WAS patriotic.

We argued important topics with our friends, family and co-workers - sometimes heatedly - but mostly to come to a better understanding of the times. Unfortunately, many of us were so entrenched in our political belief system that we were unable to do or say anything which would support any conclusion other than that spoon fed to us by our party leaders. Sure, there were a few who tried a crazy little thing called logic and reason - but for the most part people simply refused to think on their own. We called this - progress. Worse, many believed that it was a healthy approach. It wasn't. Instead of finding common ground - we split further and further apart simply for the sake of toting the party line.

As it all came to a close during the last year - we watched as the Democratic Party came into power. Many of us forecasted it long before it happened. It simply was their time. The only question was which party member would turn out to be the winner. Would it be the first woman President, or the first African-American President? More importantly - why did that matter? How about electing the most qualified? In the end, we believed that we had.

This is our country - where everyone has the right to speak, and to voice their opinion. During the previous eight years, the Republican Party responded - for the most part - with dignity and a willingness to accept that while everyone may not agree with them, it was certainly the right of the people to voice our dissent, and further that it a Constitutionally guaranteed right. We The People, exercised our rights and we voted for change that we could believe in.

Well, it was a catchy phrase and like most Americans I fell hook line and sinker for another lying politician. I was drawn in by his oratory skills and his charisma. I stand before you to say that the longer this guy stays in office, the more desperately we need him out.

This same man, who last year organized us, and told us

"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face," (1) (2)

now has an entire cabinet that now states that any form of organization is at the behest of big business; that arguing is un-American and that dissent must be reported to the office of the White House.

How many more examples of pure unfettered pressure tactics does one need before we finally come to the conclusion that our current President is not only completely out of touch, but also is completely out of control?

For weeks we have stood idly by while the Speaker of the House has insulted dissenters. She has used inflammatory language and flat out lies if not intentional innuendo to infer that those who are speaking out against the President are supporters of the Nazi Party. In fact, she stated that it is inappropriate to be carrying swastikas to town hall meetings inferring support for the Nazi belief system. In fact, the swastika she is referring to was a swastika inside an "international no" sign. For those without imagination that would be a swastika, surrounded by a red circle with a red line through it. So either the Speaker of the House was intentionally lying about the situation - or she was saying that she is opposed to those who are opposed to Nazi belief systems. Did you follow that? The short version: either she lied, or she supports Nazi beliefs. Now obviously I don't believe that she supports the Nazi Party - so I am left with only one conclusion - she obviously lied about the situation in an effort to anger the public and to force the dissenters into silence. It's no surprise - on close scrutiny this is the approach that the left has taken for nearly 20 years now.

Listen, there is a HUGE difference between you and I arguing over a position, and the government stepping in to support one of us in that argument. One is debate - the other is nothing short of dangerous, and here is why.

The government has no right to suppress either of us. Once the government decides to support one of us, they automatically begin to suppress the other. So it's one thing for Bill O'Reilly and Chris Matthews to go back and forth on an issue - that's democracy in action. It's another ENTIRELY different issue for an elected official (at ANY LEVEL) to suppress the speech of a citizen.

Well, the time is coming when the American people must put an end to this insanity. We do have options here, and those options are not limited to simply going to town hall meetings and being told by YOUR non-representing Representatives to shut up. No, you can demand that these people be removed from office. It's time to remove these idiots before they do any more harm.

- We now have over 30 Czars! Presidential appointees who are not vetted by Congress, who are paid with your tax dollars and who are answerable to no-one!

- We have a socialized auto industry (remember Volkswagen?)

- The administration is trying to socialize medicine, but are refusing to participate in the program themselves

- The administration has called for you to turn in your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers who disagree with his position.

- After publicly berating auto-industry executives for their use of corporate jets, Congress ordered their own corporate jets to the tune of hundreds of millions hoping we wouldn't see

- The administration constantly insults us calling us insubordinate, thugs, disrupters, tea-baggers, children, gripers and complainers, and Un-American.

- And now, as if President Clinton's push for low income housing loans wasn't bad enough, we failed to learn from that and are now pushing Cash for Clunkers. Get ready for people who can't pay their car loans in a couple years. Not to mention cars.gov malware which takes over your computer.

- And this final insult, the Democratic Party is organizing groups to attend town hall meetings with the sole purpose of silencing anyone who dissents from the current administrations views.

Meanwhile we still have everything President Obama promised to put an end to by July. We still have:

- Gitmo

- Troops in Iraq

- Warrant-less Wiretaps

- An opaque (vice transparent) government

- A government rushing bills through, instead of considering them logically and allowing the public to read them before being voted on

How long must the Barrackracy continue before we finally learn just how dangerous the tri-fecta Obama, Reid and Pelosi are for America?

How much worse must it get before we demand that they go? These people work for us - We The People. They have forgotten that.

And before you all simply dismiss this as the ramblings of a conservative (which I am not) - remember that one day the Republicans will be in control again. It is inevitable in a two party state. As much as everyone wishes their party would remain in power for ever it simply won't happen. Will you be as willing to accept what Obama, Reid and Pelosi have already established as governmental power when the Republicans are back in office?

Do you really want a Republican administration who has their finger in the medical insurance pie? Or the automotive pie? Or any business interest for that matter?

Do you want a Republican Speaker of the House who, rather then allowing a vote come to the floor - orders the lights be turned off and the capitol police clear the floor?

Do you really want Republican administration staff set up to record the names and particular information of anyone who disagrees with them?

Do you want all the power Obama and the Democratic Congress is amassing in the hands of the say President Sarah Palin and Speaker of the House John Boeher the next time Republicans are in office?

If the answer is "No" then for everyone's sake we MUST put an end to all of this NOW. It's time that the Congress and the Administration get back to the business of Government, and stop attempting to take more and more power for themselves, all the while enacting laws to change the name of the local post office and ignoring the real needs of the people.

Obama Fails Finance 101

2009-06-27T15:43:00.003+01:00

This week President Obama stated in the news that anyone who believes government subsidized medicine will destroy the medicine insurance industry and not help it is illogical. He stated that his opponents state that the government can't run any business successfully, yet complain that by subsidizing medical insurance the government will be so effective that they will run every other insurance company out of the business - and that just flies in the face of logic.

Well, respectfully Mr. President, there is an idiot here and it isn't those who are telling you to stay out of business.

Let me try and explain it to you.

There are two companies who provide a product. Let us call this product a widget. They are somewhat competative and their products somewhat similar. A consumer (that's me) has the choice regarding which product (if any) to purchase. Now I have three choices.

I can purchase widget "A" from company "X" in which case I exchange some of my hard earned money with the company and I get my widget. The company in turn pays for numerous things which we wont go into here. Suffice to say everyone is happy.

I can purchase widget "B" from company "Y" and, the same outcome occurs but for a different group of people.

I can purchase neither widget "A" or "B". In this case - I have made a choice that a widget isn't really that important to me when weighed against my need for the widget, and the cost of the avialable widgets. This doesn't necessarily mean that you should come in and decrie that I am widgetless.

Here is what has happened. You have indeed decried that not only am I widgetless - but this lack of widgetry in America is tantamount to a crisis on a national scale. You have decided that in order to fix the problem, you will force the price of widgets "A" and "B" down by either subsidizing one, or creating a new government widget "C". What you fail to take into consideration is the true outcome.

The production of widgets "A" and "B" have a fixed cost. Included in that cost is the price of labor, materials, factory buildings, electricity, hardware, taxation, utilities and all manner of things which YOU ALREADY CONTROL.

Now, since you (the Government) are not a business entity (despite all your current efforts) and don't make any products to sell on the market, I must assume that you plan on cutting the consumer price of either widget "A" or widget "B" by the only two means available to you.

1. You may eliminate the government financial burden (taxation) on the production of widgets. Does anyone need a scientific calculator to figure the odds of that happening?
2. You can point a gun at the heads of the tax payer, increase taxes and pay the new "earned" money to the producer of one of the widgets (we will say "A") in order to drive the cost of widget "A" down.

Option 2 works only to a point. You see, you have not really driven down the cost of widget "A", you have only FORCED people to pay for it. Once the price of widget "A" has dropped, you cannot insure that anyone who is actually widgetless for reasons beyond choice - will then actually go out and purchase a widget.

Further, becuase you are "subsidizing" the consumer cost of widget "A" by forcing consumers to pay for widget "A" through your continued and over taxation of the consumer, you have unduly preferenced widget "A" over widget "B". Because the makers of widget "B" are not receiving your "government money" (tax benefits), widget "B" (with their fixed operating costs) cannot compete. The company that makes the "B" widgets now must make a choice. They must either lower the wages of their employees (the only real cost they can control) or they can fire employees in order to drive costs down.

Meanwhile, because you are now effectively paying for widget "A" through tax benefits, eventually you will begin to create new rules and regulations governing the features of widget "A" - which will eventually drive the cost of widget "A" back up through the increased production costs. In an effort to keep the costs down - the company will probably try to cut corners resulting in a much lower quality widget OR will demand more payments from you which results in higher taxes for me.

This of course is a over simplified explanation - but I had to simplify it because apparently you lack the understanding of how a business without the ability to extort money from the American population actually operates.

In either case, you can see that not only have you removed my choice - you have destroyed one company (putting many out of work) and destroyed the product produced by the competition - and you have actually increased my cost (though hidden through taxation).

Who's the real idiot here sir?

Intellect is no respector of age

2009-06-17T17:46:00.003+01:00

We have a massive problem in America right now. Our country is full of the mentally bereft. IT isn't the fault of these mental midgets - they just never took an interest in their own education. To make matters worse, neither did society and the result is this unbridled wave of political correctness.

Here is the problem.

Very few among us would argue that a child lacks the mental ability to make sound decisions. This is why children cannot drink, drive, vote, marry, or enter into contracts. They just don't understand what they are doing, and very often their lack of understanding leads to screaming and shouting when they don't get their way. Thus, a family which allows itself to be run by a child lives in no end of terror until the brat gets its way - or goes off to become either a college student, activist, politician or all the above.

This is what society is undergoing now.

There is a major movement afoot to give everyone everything and deny no-one anything. The result is of course a society with no understanding of financial concerns voting into office a president that turns on the financial handout faucet with absolutely no end in sight. Those in receipt of this never ending tide of cash fail to realize that one day very soon the lake of funds they are so very siphon will be quite soon drained.

Another example is the concept that there is a right in America to not be offended. Should you say something that someone disagrees with - they will rail and spew such vulgarities at you that would singe the ears of the most experienced of Sailors.

Take for example the event this year between Carrie Jean Prejean and Pariz Hilton. A perfect example of how the supposed lefties of the country who subscribe to the so-called "big tent" concept which suddenly isn't so big once you have a difference of opinion. No, suddenly we see the left for what it is, a bunch of temper-tantrum throwing children without any respect for opinions what-so-ever which is contrary to their view of the world. Suddenly, anyone outside the tent is a hater described with such vile language that it cannot be repeated here. That is their idea of a big tent.

But the real problem is a lack of any intellect what so ever. A thinking person would ponder the situation and respond - I don't agree and here is why. A thinking person would not have to create lies (I don't have the same rights as you) in order to support their opinion. A thinking person would wonder why is it that gays feel the need to shove their sexuality in your face, while demanding that non-gays keep their sexuality in the closet where it belongs. Think I'm kidding? Try heading into the office and proclaiming your heterosexuality on a regular basis. Don't forget to bestow the benefits of movies, songs, videos, books, actors and concepts which support the heterosexual lifestyle. Then, for good measure, remind everyone that anyone who disagrees with you is a heterophobe, a hater, a Nazi, a parasite on society and that deep down inside they are all heterosexuals just afraid to come out. See how far that gets you.

Do you believe that we have a thinking person in power? Try going to your banker and explaining that, while you are $15,000 in debt on your credit cards, what you need from him is a$1,500,000.00 ($1.5 million) loan so that you can spend your way to financial success. Don't worry giving him a plan - just ask him to trust you. If you want you can loosely describe how you need a new car, a new home, a good health plan, and so do your friends and neighbors. Then, point a gun at his head - essentially that is what the IRS does to you every April.

Yes, the country is full of children and they are running our nation. The next time you are in the shopping mall and see a child laying on the floor screaming while a parent tries desperately to pick up the child and move along - think of our people and who represents whom. I believe you will see in the eyes of that parent a group of citizens horrified at the path we are on, and in the child - those who are leading us down the path to utter destruction.

Kindle for College Kinders

2009-06-10T14:13:00.000+01:00

I find myself wanting to want the new Kindle DX except for a few obvious issues. First, the size. Having seen the unit only in print and on television (and therefore fully qualified to make a professional judgement) - it appears too large for my taste. I would opt for the Kindle 2 except for it's lack of support for native PDF.

On the plus side, as a student, I watch with eagerness to claims that it's "great for students" who will be able to "keep all their books" on the Kindle DX. As one who (a) is skeptical of hype and (b) recognizes that the Kindle plan is to download books from Amazon, I wondered just how many of the books required by my local University (University of Maryland University College) are available for the Kindle (DX or other).

In any case, having been to college and paid those college book prices, I estimated that the cost savings for student books available for the Kindle would be GINORMOUS resulting in a fabulous cost break point!

So I logged into myUMUC and just started searching the Fall 2009 course catalog books requirements, and then searched for those ISBNs on the Kindle store:

COURSE ISBN AVAILABlE? NEW USED KINDLE PRICE

AASP201 0679763783 No

007243046X No

014018998X Yes 7.95 0.01 4.76 (Hardcover)

2.50 0.01 4.76 (Softcover)

AACT220 9780470421130 No

9780470418307 No

9780470318058 No

AACT221 9780470421130 No

9780470418307 No

9780470318058 No (Out of print)

AACT301 9780073527000 No

AACT310 9780470421253 NO

9780470418321 No

9780470283899 No (Out of print)

9780470380574 No

9780470380598 No

9780470278956 No

AACT311 9780470421253 NO

9780470418321 No

9780470283899 No (Out of print)

9780470380604 No

9780470380581 No (Pre-order)

9780470278956 No

AACT321 0558197310 No

0135046343 No

Ok, looks like accounting students are out of luck. Lets try another department.

ANTH102 0558218652 No

0385014856 No

ANTH343 0073138762 No

0073531006 No

ANTH350 9780520243262 No

0558161170 No

9780226426853 Yes 13.50 6.49 15.40

9780465032044 No

ANTH398K 9780520246331 No

ARAB111 1-58901-102-3 No

0-7818-1042-6 No

How about Art History?

ARTH370 9780495115496 No

Asian Studies?

ASTD150 0558201857 No

ASTD160 0558201857 No

Astronomy?

ASTR100 0961320753 No

0072943602 No

0073336661 No

Behavioral and Social Sciences?

BEHS210 0558161200 No

9780495015857 No

9780192853882 Yes 10.16 2.99 6.44

9780192853813 Yes 9.56 3.57 9.56

9780192853462 Yes 9.56 4.01 7.16

9780192853806 Yes 9.56 2.04 6.44

BEHS320 9780944480281 No

9780472032365 No

978041595334 No

BEHS364 0801886201 No

0415954479 NO

0595423345 No

BEHS450 0558137792 No

0205503268 No

0205573541 No

1433802392 No

Wow, so you see trying to find a class with books supported by Kindle is almost as difficult as figuring out your curriculum requirements! As to saving you money? I was depressed to find that books supported by the Kindle had already been significantly discounted so my dreams of paying $9 instead of $75 were quickly dashed. Even for the courses which did have books supported by the Kindle, you can see that not all books were available - meaning that you now had to carry around both a Kindle and the books. And if you are into purchasing used books for your classes, the cost of Kindle downloads was even more expensive than used books. Now when you add the initial purchase cost of the Kindle - there is literally no break point for you - as a college student.

To be fair, and in full disclosure, the courses and course material is verifiable for any UMUC student through the myUMUC portal. Courses listed are from the fall 2009 catalog and every book, required and recommended, for the surveyed courses was included in the search.

My recommendation for students and parents is to do your research first to see if the Kindle is a viable option for the student entering into or returning to college. I suspect that it is not. If on the other hand you are purchasing the Kindle to replace your own personal library and to downsize storage (as I am considering) you must weigh the cost of re-purchasing your books with the added cost of the Kindle against what you already have paid for (books, bookcases etc). And, finally if you are an avid reader - this unit might be for you. As a casual reader I cannot make any recommendation there.

I'm so pro-life, that you're gonna have to die!

2009-06-01T02:47:00.003+01:00

Today we read with sadness at the sensless loss of another life. A pro-life extremist has struck down George Tillman in the abortionists church. At first glance, you might feel the need to read that again. A pro-lifer, killed a physician who performs abortions, and did it in the church that the abortionist attends.

After your eyes stop spurting blood you can continue.

Or not.

It's just so stupidly insane that I don't think even I can draft a response to this senseless murder.

Sotomayor isn't a racist - and neither am I

2009-06-01T01:58:00.005+01:00

Today during the news a pair of politerarti (including C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger from my own Maryland) discussed recent comments by President Obama's Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor. During this discussion it was pointed out that no apology is necessary for her comment:

"that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. "

It was explained that she was simply a proud latina and there was nothing desparaging in her comments or her judicial decisions what-so-ever to indicate either racism or sexism.

I say, here here! In fact I will go one step further and say that not only is she neither racist nor sexist, but she simply isn't correct. She is mistaken. It's a common mistake, for women - especially a latina - to believe that they are just as good as any man (especially a white man). But we all know this just isn't the case. There is no way a latina could be as good as any white male on the bench, unless we give her a couple extra points under the table for being a minority.

That isn't being sexist, that isn't being racist, that's just one person being proud of their heritage. Right?

Wrong! Dead wrong! Both comments are so obviously race and sex based as to be beyond morally disturbing. Both comments. Here is the problem. Only the second comment is currently viewed as disturbing. In our rush to reach equality we have completely tilted the scales. In our rush to respond to the obviously racially and sexually biased opinion of this women, we miss the obvious.

The obvious point here is - in what decision does your race or your sex have anything to to with that decision based on the law? Anyone? The law is fairly clear. This is illegal and that is not. We do not have a country run on "feelings" despite what the extremists would have you believe. While it is certainly true that this is what the left wants - it is the wrong course to take because it leads down a road where you don't want to go. Remember, that our country changes politicial parties frequently (compared to other nations) and there will come a day when the extreme right (much like the extreme left today) will be in total control. Would any of you pass the laws under the rule of Republicans that are being passed today under the rule of Democrats? Seriously. If President Bush nominated a Supreme Court Judgship to a person who stated that "as an extremely religious white male having lived a rich and prosperous life, I simply am more educated and well informed and able to reach a better decision that an African American woman who hasn't lived my kind of life".

There would be a race to DC with pitchforks and torches.

Again, for the wrong reasons.

How you lived your life has nothing to do with, say, whether or not you have read the Second Amendment to the Constitution - which apparently this woman has not, based on her decision that there is no basis for a person in America to have a gun.

While her life may be one of great interest, apparently it never included reading skills or at least reading our most precious of documents.

So. To be direct. Yes her comments are racist and yes they are sexist - no matter how you spin it. Ok, fine - she should most certainly appologize and we should move on. But more to the point, her life story has no place in a court of law. A court and the decisions therein are based in law - not feeling.

Stop flying your flag and terrorism will stop

2009-05-25T02:37:00.003+01:00

In an amazing set of revelations this past week, President Barrack Obama continued to show more of his colors - making a grab for more (unconstitutional powers) and attempting to force a sovereign nation to stop flying its own flag.

It seemed fitting to a number of Americans that President Obama staged his speech, and don't think everything here wasn't staged, to occur just before former Vice President Dick Cheney's speech and that President Obama gave his speech with his back to the US Constitution. Given the statements that he made during the speech I don't believe that placing the Constitution behind him was an accident. In fact, I couldn't make many better points about his speech than MSNBCs own Rachel Maddow.

It further strikes me that I hear none of the anger and outrage from the left, that was so apparent during the presidency of George Bush, when it appeared that he was making decisions which appeared to be contrary to US Law. The same kind of silence is heard on this as is heard on this administrations wasteful and unsustainable spending. While thousands of us were our on the streets of this country screaming for fiscal prudence in the administration the media refused to cover our outrage. Yet, as soon as there is a new president they are all over us like fleas on a dog. Now that we have a new president, the celebrity elite are stating that those who are demanding fiscal prudence now are racist and uneducated extremists because they were not asking for fiscal prudence then - and yet those same elite who were so concerned about fiscal prudence then are apparently unconcerned about it now.

Then to add insult to injury President Obama apparently instructed Israel to give up part of their nation to Palestine and then to stop flying the Isreali flag, insinuating that if Israel didn't bow to his demands the US would refuse to provide aid to Israel should they be attacked. In his defense he apparently did state that such a move, in his opinion, would help to stop terrorist attacks against Israel. I can only surmise that while the President is out building up relations between our historical allies like Germany, France and the Soviet Union that he cannot be bothered with such whinny bitchy little nations like Israel - who really have no room to complain by the way. (ok before everyone screams - that's called sarcasm people).

I guess to make this the perfect end to a perfect week, the President could give a speech tomorrow at Arlington National Cemetery and recommend that the flags flying over the White House and Congress be replaced with the Hammer and Sickle and the Crescent Moon and Star in order to put an end to Capitalism and Terrorist attacks in the US.

I am beginning to wonder just what medication he is on - because if he believes the world really is that rosy and simple; if he really believes that his approach is more legal than that of former President Bush; if he really believes that the way out of debt is more spending; if he really believes that in order to fix our health care system he needs to socialise it; and if he really believes that any thinking American is going to go along with all this - then I want some of what he is taking!

Global Climate is more about control than change

2009-05-22T20:51:00.002+01:00

Just received this from my local energy company:

"The emPOWER Maryland Act is a statewide initiative aimed at reducing overall per capita electric consumption and demand by 15 percent by 2015. The Act directed Maryland's utilities to offer programs designed to help consumers to reduce their energy use. To help pay for those programs, a small monthly Energy Efficiency charge of $0.00115 per kWh (electric customers) and $0.0051 per therm (gas customers) is included in customer bills. Beginning with the billings in May, customers will see the surcharge as a line item on their bills entitled "EmPower MD Chg."
A portion of the surcharge will be offset by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative credit, appearing as "RGGI Rate Credit". This credit is provided by the State of Maryland to support utility programs that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases."

It is stated that the purpose of this is offset the cost of offering "programs designed to help consumers reduce their energy use". Well, if the program were worthwhile it would not need to be offset (a); and (b) coming from a company who just doubled their rates, it sounds to me as though this program is (a) nothing more than a "Fine" or "Tax" for not going green and (b) another way for the company to squeeze (literally) more blood from my turnip.

Janeane Garofalo wins DumbAss Award

2009-05-21T00:44:00.002+01:00

In a recent off the cuff interview "celebrity" Janeane Garafalo stated that everyone protesting on tax day were racists. She stated that the concerns of those 300,000 protestors was not fiscal responsibility but that they wanted to oust the "black man" from the white house. Again, everyone there is a racist.

This is how the liberal left debates. Not with facts but with ad-hominem attacks, using hate speech like "Teabaggers" (ha ha - I get jokes), "racists", and "rednecks" - nothing factual at all, just hate speech.

She cites one single sign and eludes to others. Well, having attended one of the parties to photograph the event I can say that I didn't see and cannot find in any photograph of the protestors in my area one single solitary racial slur. Not one. And I was at a size able party at a state capital. But that one sign was enough to slur every participant. Ok. So then, I suppose that using Janeane Garafalo's standards let me make some observations:

David Hasselhoff is an alcoholic, so then are all celebrities

Kiefer Sutherland was in a drunken braw, so then all celebrities are brawlers

David Duchovny is a sex addict, so then are all celebrities

Winona Ryder is a thief, all celebrities are thieves

Christian Slater is a cocaine addict, all celebrities are addicted to drugs

Charlie Sheen yells the "N" word, all celebrities are racists

Using her own standards, she herself then is a drug addicted alcoholic brawling racist shouting "N" while she steals whatever she can and sleep with whoever she can to support her habits.

This would be wrong however as I have not met the woman. Just as it is wrong of her to slander an entire nation of people "presumably" because of one sign. However, it is indicative that the left is in complete denial of what is going on in America. They do not want fiscal conservatism either - they simply want to control our lives from deep within the hole in which they choose to bury their heads. And as to her comment asking where we were the last 8 years? We were complaining, but you weren't listening and the lame stream media wasn't reporting because it didn't fit into your nice little definition of what Conservatives are. According to you we are all running around licking the boots of former President Bush.

Nothing could be further form the truth.

The difference is that the jerk in charge now, in his first 100 days has already outspent what the last jerk spent in 8 years!

Sept 11 Attacks $31.9B

Gulf War II $859B

Hurricane Katrina $110B

Economic Bailout (combined Administrations) $10.1T - TRILLION!!!

So I will now ask her the same question she posed. If you are so strongly against fiscal imprudence, why are you not out there railing against this administration? Or is it that you just hated Bush and are in love with the concept of a "black man" in the white house?

I don't care who is in the white house so long as they are good at the job and they don't cost everyone else theirs. I want someone fiscally prudent and someone who can run the country efficiently. I could care less about their sex, their sexual preference, their race, or their religious beliefs.

For her lack of integrity, lack of honesty, and total lack of recognition for what is going on in the world - Janeane Garafalo wins the coveted Dumb-Ass Award.

Who's the Dumbass now?

2009-05-21T00:13:00.003+01:00

Last year when I drafted a letter to my Representative, I was under no illusion that it would do any good. But, I had to point out that spending billions of hard earned tax payer dollars to "bail out" a failing industry was a bad idea. I figured that perhaps someone, anyone in the legislature possibly had taken economics 101 sometime in their past and this might ring a bell.

Alas, the response I received was non-plus. It said, that my legislature new better than I and that he had decided, using his own better judgement, to support the bailout. Well, who's the dumb-ass now? Huh?

Anyone who can use google should be able to conduct a search on the term GM bailout and must be left wondering why someone in our federal government isn't going to jail for this massive fraud. The answer is simple - it's payback for the elections.

Now here we are, billions of dollars later and we are about to be introduced to the new "Government Motors". The next step is easy to see for anyone who knows anything about how government is run.

Having already stated that GM is "too big to fail" and having dumped billions into it, the Fed will have no choice but to accept and take it over. Once this happens and they convert all Union labor to GS-12s to GS-15s. Now they must begin selling cars. But there is a small problem. Americans don't want GM cars.

Ok, how do we solve that? Simple. It's called Federal Regulation, and here is how it will work.

First, being too big to fail and now being a government agency, the Fed will begin to pass regulation on the manufacture of automobiles. They will be in a perfect position to do so now that they "run" (despite President Obama's stated wishes) a car company. In order to drive customers to their product, they will insert such onerous regulation as to make it impossible

to profit from automobile manufacturing and sales. That being done, the successful car companies like Toyota, Saturn, etc will leave the country.

You will now be left with the wonderful choice of:

(a) Government Motors vehicles which will be crap, will need continual repairs by crap service dealers, and won't get you from point a to point b on less than 20 gallons of gas (Fed produced cars will mysteriously be exempt from MPG standards, but GM will also be exempt from all forms of Cap and Trade) but will also cost a mere $5,000.00 - or

(b) Any other car still manufactured at a show-room sticker price of $30,000 to $45,000 with the obligatory: Green Tax, Water Purification Tax, Safe Highway Tax, MPG Violation Tax, Air Tax, Blue Skies Tax, Green Grass Tax, Clean Air Tax, as well as Federal, State, County and City filing fees and licensing for a grand total of $150,000.

This is what Democrats call Fair Trade.

But this won't work you say. Government Motors won't be able to produce a car at that price you say. Ah but you forget the power of the government to subsidize all of it's failing businesses through Taxation (see United Postal Service or Department of Motor Vehicles). You see the Fed isn't worried about being able to produce a reliable car at an affordable price when they hold all the cash in the country - in order to get it they just tax you more. What was the last business that the Fed successfully ran? Anyone? Anyone? They can't, and they don't. The Fed can't make a dime and they don't know how. This is why our budget is out of control, and they spend like mad - they have no sense of what it takes to actually earn a dollar.

Here are some simple clues for you folks "Downtown".

1) You must produce a product that someone wants.

2) You must sell it for a price someone can afford.

3) You must pay for the services of your employees including their benefits packages.

4) You must pay for the resources used in producing your product.

5) You must do all this on a thing called 'Profits'.

6) Profits may only come from the sales of your product - not the taxation of the American people.

Get it?

The World Temperature

2009-04-19T15:31:00.010+01:00

On the shoulders of Atlas,
We hang suspended in space
A ball spinning around the sun

We face the sun
We gather man made warmth from our enormous carbon footprint
We face away from the sun
We face a cataclysmic winter from our enormous carbon footprint
We know this, We tell you this,
GE charges you $15 for a light bulb while NBC runs daily news programs an how you are responsible for killing your children unless you buy our parent companies light bulbs.

He starts a business to sell you trees
And explains our role in destroying the earth with bad science
Ok, He explains, using bad science, our role in destroying the earth
(but both sentences mean the same thing don't they?)
And how to save it by purchasing his trees
(that he promises are being planted in your name)

Oh, yes, and any company which makes money is evil ... except his.

Ooh baby do you know what that's worth?
Ooh heaven is a place with a fully tax exonerated globally conscious non-evil profit turning corporation which sells carbon offsets on earth ...

Time for a break - writing these 4 trains is really really hard.
I wrote 5? DAMNIT!

We live in a democratic republic - so you shall be silent!

2009-04-19T15:26:00.003+01:00

For years you were the many
I had my say
As did you
- and the republic was great.

But now I am the many,
You are the few
I shall have my say
- and you can just sit the hell down and shut the frack up.

We shall make illegal today, what you did yesterday, so we can punish you tomorrow

2009-04-19T15:21:00.003+01:00

I dislike what you did yesterday. What you did upset me. It did not cause me physical pain. It did not cause me physical suffering. But I dislike it.

I will change the law today. What you did is not yet against the law but I will change that. It was not against the law yesterday but it soon will be. Yes, I must change the law.

Tomorrow I shall punish you for what you did that violates my new law. I shall punish you, and you and you. I shall punish your parents, and their parents, and the parents before them.

Of course, as I cannot confine each of you I shall just take some money - only a little for each violation. Of course many of your family who violated my new law are long gone - I am sorry but you must pay the price.

Afterall - I need the cash ... and I don't like what you did.

The sun is full of hate

2009-04-19T15:09:00.003+01:00

The Sun
- will rise in the morning on a dark day
The One
- uses hate to control what the peaceful say
The Many
- refuse to see the light
The Few
- are destined to flight

All
- the kings horses
All
- the kings men
Will
- never put the republic together again

It is the way of things

2009-04-19T15:00:00.002+01:00

The cat hunts the bird, the bird is the prey of the cat. The bird cannot awaken one morning desiring to discover his inner cat and in turn hunt the cat. The cat would consume the bird and say "What a stupid bird. Don't you know that you can never be a cat?". What we are on the outside is what we are. A Zebra cannot change it's spots.

It is the way of things. Any beast of the earth that looks at itself in a mirror and desires to be what it is not, is without knowledge or understanding of nature - and - will eventually be consumed by cats.