Okay! What's the problem? The Times Square Bomber turns out to be a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan. That he is Islamic is obvious considering the reports that he has admitted to training in Pakistan to build bombs. Guess he left the instruction manual at home, eh?
Well, here's what I think is going on. The evil Islamic terrorist organizations around the world have now figured out that they can send their own over to America where they will live long enough to apply legally for citizenship. Once they are citizens they are dispersed to commit acts of terrorism on U.S. soil. This way if they survive the attack and are apprehended they are subject to the rights of citizenship and therefore will receive Miranda Rights, which will allow them to lawyer up. Surely the ACLU has enough tearjerk lawyers lined up ready to take on the defense of such cases.
Well, today U.S. Attorney General Holder announced the several charges against Shazad, yet not a one of them is treason. This is an outrage. If he is a U.S. citizen, and has attempted to harm other Americans as a member of a militant force bent on our destruction than he must be charged with treason. He must be!
We Americans will not learn how to truly deal with this terrorism threat until more lives are lost. It's unfortunate that our due diligence will depend on mass murder.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
A Winning Ticket?
This will be the Republican/Conservative Presidential ticket come 2012:
Palin/Bachmann
Palin/Bachmann
Monday, March 22, 2010
America! What have we done?
Every time we allowed a politician to remain in office who supported no smoking in restaurants, who voted to require use of seat belts, who have lowered the legal drinking limit for driving, who raised property taxes, who allowed for bans on texting while driving, who campaigned to remove saturated and trans fats from foods, who passed laws reforming campaign financing, who increased tax withholdings from earned income, who perpetuated class warfare in a supposedly classless society, who answered the call to create WIC and Medicaid and EBT and utilities subsidies, we authorized mandates that allowed for these politicians to control more and more aspects of our lives.
These things did not happen overnight and they know it. This has been an orchestrated plan for decades (most of the political lives of those who now run the government) and they won't stop at health insurance reform. There power is now absolute. There is no way to stop them. America has been on a road to socialism for decades. Where socialism fails around the world it survives like the cancer it is in of all places the Land of the Free. Who would have thought?
We will not be able to reverse what happened on March 21, 2010, when the Democrat majority rammed this reform down America's throat. It is too late.
Unless...
...we repeal everything that government has successfully done to intrude in our lives, like those items mentioned above -- and more besides.
Yes, we need to stop allowing the takeover of our lives with phrases like: "for the children" and "spread the wealth" and "the rich have to pay their fair share" and "conservatives are all racists".
Yes, we have to allow restaurants to decide if customers can smoke, not the government.
Yes, we have to let individuals choose whether they will wear a seat belt, not the government.
Yes, we have to rely on individuals, their families, their friends, to reduce drunk driving, not the government.
Yes, we have to stop funding failing schools with property tax increases. How much money has to be spent before we realize that the problem is not the money, but the fact that we have allowed children to get away with more and more disobedience by limiting how and when they are disciplined?
Yes, we have to leave it up to food suppliers, and retailers to decide whether saturated or trans fats are used, not the government.
Yes, we have to support anyone's (be they individual citizen or corporation) right to speak through financing the campaigns of politicians who support their interests not the interests of Washington D.C.
Yes, we have to repeal Amendment XVI to the U.S. Constitution, if we are to put an end to the government taking our money and using it against our will.
Yes, we have to discontinue WIC and Medicaid and EBT and subsidies and instead put into structured homes and orphanages those who have "caretakers" unable to fulfill their responsibilities to them.
Yes, we have to stop giving politicians any mandate that infringes on our Constitutional rights.
To do all of this will not be easy, because even those who consider theirself conservative have already drunk the "kool aid" and as a result have failed America miserably. It will require an entirely new generation of politicians, and I for one have absolutely no clue where they will come from.
These things did not happen overnight and they know it. This has been an orchestrated plan for decades (most of the political lives of those who now run the government) and they won't stop at health insurance reform. There power is now absolute. There is no way to stop them. America has been on a road to socialism for decades. Where socialism fails around the world it survives like the cancer it is in of all places the Land of the Free. Who would have thought?
We will not be able to reverse what happened on March 21, 2010, when the Democrat majority rammed this reform down America's throat. It is too late.
Unless...
...we repeal everything that government has successfully done to intrude in our lives, like those items mentioned above -- and more besides.
Yes, we need to stop allowing the takeover of our lives with phrases like: "for the children" and "spread the wealth" and "the rich have to pay their fair share" and "conservatives are all racists".
Yes, we have to allow restaurants to decide if customers can smoke, not the government.
Yes, we have to let individuals choose whether they will wear a seat belt, not the government.
Yes, we have to rely on individuals, their families, their friends, to reduce drunk driving, not the government.
Yes, we have to stop funding failing schools with property tax increases. How much money has to be spent before we realize that the problem is not the money, but the fact that we have allowed children to get away with more and more disobedience by limiting how and when they are disciplined?
Yes, we have to leave it up to food suppliers, and retailers to decide whether saturated or trans fats are used, not the government.
Yes, we have to support anyone's (be they individual citizen or corporation) right to speak through financing the campaigns of politicians who support their interests not the interests of Washington D.C.
Yes, we have to repeal Amendment XVI to the U.S. Constitution, if we are to put an end to the government taking our money and using it against our will.
Yes, we have to discontinue WIC and Medicaid and EBT and subsidies and instead put into structured homes and orphanages those who have "caretakers" unable to fulfill their responsibilities to them.
Yes, we have to stop giving politicians any mandate that infringes on our Constitutional rights.
To do all of this will not be easy, because even those who consider theirself conservative have already drunk the "kool aid" and as a result have failed America miserably. It will require an entirely new generation of politicians, and I for one have absolutely no clue where they will come from.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Gold at 1200 and rising!
Does anyone understand this nonsense?
The Stock Market is up. Oil is up. Gold is way up! Where's the catalyst? Where's the money coming from?
People, nationwide unemployment is almost at 20%. Yes, I meant to write 20%, not the bogus 10.2% figure quoted by most in the media and government. With so many folks out of work there has to be less money floating around to buy things. Remember, even the Cash for Clunkers and First-time Home Buyer tax credit is not an influx of cash into the market. They are an increase in the indebtedness that we cannot pay back.
Many economists already predict that there will be massive repossessions within six months, in part because the fools who fell for the Clunkergate did not realize how much their insurance would go up for a new car versus the more than likely liability coverage they carried on their paid off clunkers. This only adds to how much they will have to fork out to keep paying on their new car. Not to mention that they still need to pay their rent/mortgage, put food on the table, and gas in that car.
Recently it was reported that home buyers are already in arrears for homes they bought just this year. Come on, we're gutting ourselves here! Mark my words, if we don't stop this keeping-up-with-the-Joneses mentality our world is going to come crashing down hard and fast.
Things are very bad, folks. Very bad.
Still, the consumer robots are running around to all of these so-called Bleak Friday sales (yes, you read right). Buying flat screen TVs because they can, because they want one. I guarantee you these same folks have a perfectly functioning CRT TV in their homes right now. What are they going to do with that? Read one of my earlier blogs to get the gist of how I feel about HD and all that. My CRT TV happens to be over ten years old. I will NOT buy a flat screen TV until I absolutely have no choice. Yes, that means my CRT TV will have to go out completely. Dead. Kaput.
I spent today with family thankful for them and only them on this Thanksgiving Day. I am not thankful for my government, I am not thankful for the greedy and selfish among us, and I am not thankful for the apparent stupidity that is working to destroy this the greatest nation on earth.
Gold at 1200. Please!
The Stock Market is up. Oil is up. Gold is way up! Where's the catalyst? Where's the money coming from?
People, nationwide unemployment is almost at 20%. Yes, I meant to write 20%, not the bogus 10.2% figure quoted by most in the media and government. With so many folks out of work there has to be less money floating around to buy things. Remember, even the Cash for Clunkers and First-time Home Buyer tax credit is not an influx of cash into the market. They are an increase in the indebtedness that we cannot pay back.
Many economists already predict that there will be massive repossessions within six months, in part because the fools who fell for the Clunkergate did not realize how much their insurance would go up for a new car versus the more than likely liability coverage they carried on their paid off clunkers. This only adds to how much they will have to fork out to keep paying on their new car. Not to mention that they still need to pay their rent/mortgage, put food on the table, and gas in that car.
Recently it was reported that home buyers are already in arrears for homes they bought just this year. Come on, we're gutting ourselves here! Mark my words, if we don't stop this keeping-up-with-the-Joneses mentality our world is going to come crashing down hard and fast.
Things are very bad, folks. Very bad.
Still, the consumer robots are running around to all of these so-called Bleak Friday sales (yes, you read right). Buying flat screen TVs because they can, because they want one. I guarantee you these same folks have a perfectly functioning CRT TV in their homes right now. What are they going to do with that? Read one of my earlier blogs to get the gist of how I feel about HD and all that. My CRT TV happens to be over ten years old. I will NOT buy a flat screen TV until I absolutely have no choice. Yes, that means my CRT TV will have to go out completely. Dead. Kaput.
I spent today with family thankful for them and only them on this Thanksgiving Day. I am not thankful for my government, I am not thankful for the greedy and selfish among us, and I am not thankful for the apparent stupidity that is working to destroy this the greatest nation on earth.
Gold at 1200. Please!
Friday, September 11, 2009
A Day to Think
Like many Americans today, I spent time reflecting on what happened September 11, 2001, and continue to try to make sense of it all. You can't really.
Some have said we need to identify who did this to us and not be so politically correct. Others go on believing and espousing that George W. Bush was behind the attacks, or knew of them in advance. The conspiracy theories abound across the web. Others, still, think we have not gone far enough or done enough damage to the "other side" to make a difference in the conflict.
It is not enough, I don't think, to say Muslims did this to us. Islamic extremists attacked before 9/11, attacked on 9/11, and go on attacking. They want an end to America so don't kid yourself thinking otherwise. I stopped blaming Muslims a long time ago, even though they make that difficult. After all, one is hard pressed to find any Muslim anywhere who publicly denounces what Islamic Extremists do.
September 11th comes and goes every year and I don't really do much about it, not really. Then I come across a video on YouTube from a young man just talking to his audience and partway through his talk he says something brief, yet absolutely remarkable. "What can you say [about 9/11]?...a day to think..."
Wow! That hit home. Of course, it is so simple, it takes a young man to explain it to me. Today is not a day to remember; it's not a day to grieve; it's not a day to blame. September 11th is a day to think. And that is exactly how I will honor the victims of 9/11 from now on.
Wow! A day to think.
Some have said we need to identify who did this to us and not be so politically correct. Others go on believing and espousing that George W. Bush was behind the attacks, or knew of them in advance. The conspiracy theories abound across the web. Others, still, think we have not gone far enough or done enough damage to the "other side" to make a difference in the conflict.
It is not enough, I don't think, to say Muslims did this to us. Islamic extremists attacked before 9/11, attacked on 9/11, and go on attacking. They want an end to America so don't kid yourself thinking otherwise. I stopped blaming Muslims a long time ago, even though they make that difficult. After all, one is hard pressed to find any Muslim anywhere who publicly denounces what Islamic Extremists do.
September 11th comes and goes every year and I don't really do much about it, not really. Then I come across a video on YouTube from a young man just talking to his audience and partway through his talk he says something brief, yet absolutely remarkable. "What can you say [about 9/11]?...a day to think..."
Wow! That hit home. Of course, it is so simple, it takes a young man to explain it to me. Today is not a day to remember; it's not a day to grieve; it's not a day to blame. September 11th is a day to think. And that is exactly how I will honor the victims of 9/11 from now on.
Wow! A day to think.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Arcadian's Got Talent (or Bring Arcadian Back)
What happened to Arcadian Broad was completely wrong and unprofessional. I, for one, am very proud that he stood up for hisself.
The young man can dance! My feeling is he was set up to lose out. He was given a routine he did not want to perform (his words). Why was he assigned a partner when he auditioned as a single act? The producers did not separate the Three Tenors into a single act and tell two to go home, did they? Why wasn't Kevin Skinner partnered for a duet instead of being allowed to remain a solo act?
And the folks running the show wonder why people think America's Got Talent is rigged.
Arcadian auditioned and performed as a single dance act, not part of a gesticulating, poorly choreographed, and bumbling aggregation as the High School Musical routine seemed to me to be.
I have enjoyed America's Got Talent (and the many "Got Talent" versions around the world), but I must take a stand here. Bring back Arcadian Broad and let him do what he wants, then let the people decide on that. The judges "threw out the rules" for Fab Five and Voices of Glory, so throw out those same rules and BRING ARCADIAN BACK. If they can't or won't, they may have just lost a fan, for I shall never watch another episode of America's Got Talent ever again.
Sorry to be so direct, but I am troubled by what I witnessed in Part 1 of the Semis.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Le Morte d'Eduord
Ted Kennedy died today. For that there is no denying an era in American history has come to its end. The last king of Camelot is dead. Long live...who?
Who now will take up the grand mantle of bulwark of the liberals who want to change America, not for the better, but for the worse?
What will happen to the liberal causes without their lion to roar for them?
Who will tell the children to shut up when they become too unruly?
No one as I can see will or can step up to the plate. If any doubts this, look at how the Camelotians (that's liberal democrats for those of you who don't get it) treated Caroline Kennedy when she tried to get the nod for the Senate seat vacated by Hillary when that carpetbagger became Secretary of State. If anyone should have been heir to Camelot it was Caroline. Right?
Liberalism is the dog that has had its day. Some -- on Ted's side (gee no surprise there) -- are already exploiting his memory by attaching his name to the reform of health care in America. Have they no shame?
I didn't like Ted Kennedy for his politics, and I really didn't like the man, but even if I had I would never use his name to further a cause of mine. That would be, I don't know, like, attaching Reagan's name to legislation for Alzheimer research just to get it to pass.
I may not be the only one who didn't like Ted, by the way. The family of Mary Jo Kopechne, might not be too upset that he's gone. I'm just saying.
At the end of the day what is most significant about the passing of Ted Kennedy is that it is really, finally, the passing of Camelot. A whole generation of Americans grew up with the Kennedys as their Royal Family. This, when there should not be any royalty to revere.
But the name Camelot, as it has been applied to the Kennedy family, says much about liberalism. Elitists (i.e., royalists) who believe in their own superiority over the common man (i.e., us serfs). Even the kings and queens of old gave alms to the poor, and this is exactly what liberals have done, are doing, and will try to go on doing: being compassionate with other people's money.
I could be pretty darn compassionate myself if I only had other folk's money to spend instead of mine own, but the words of Margaret Thatcher come back to me now: the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Isn't this what is happening today? We're running out of money. We're running out of the jobs that create wealth. We're running out of the money that is available to be taxed to pay for government of any form. We're running out of money.
Many whom I have talked to since our President Obama was elected are terrified that he is out to destroy America, as we know it. I repeat here what I have told others before; I do not fear President Obama or his policies. Why? Because America is greater than him and them.
Obama has a vision of America similar in many respects to the vision Ted Kennedy had. Similar enough that Ted endorsed Obama during the primaries. It is possible that Ted Kennedy knew even back then of his ailment and passed the torch, so to speak. Only, I don't think Obama, or anyone else on the left for that matter, has what it takes to carry it.
Camelot is crumbling away and the last lit torch has dimmed and gone out. Long live America.
Who now will take up the grand mantle of bulwark of the liberals who want to change America, not for the better, but for the worse?
What will happen to the liberal causes without their lion to roar for them?
Who will tell the children to shut up when they become too unruly?
No one as I can see will or can step up to the plate. If any doubts this, look at how the Camelotians (that's liberal democrats for those of you who don't get it) treated Caroline Kennedy when she tried to get the nod for the Senate seat vacated by Hillary when that carpetbagger became Secretary of State. If anyone should have been heir to Camelot it was Caroline. Right?
Liberalism is the dog that has had its day. Some -- on Ted's side (gee no surprise there) -- are already exploiting his memory by attaching his name to the reform of health care in America. Have they no shame?
I didn't like Ted Kennedy for his politics, and I really didn't like the man, but even if I had I would never use his name to further a cause of mine. That would be, I don't know, like, attaching Reagan's name to legislation for Alzheimer research just to get it to pass.
I may not be the only one who didn't like Ted, by the way. The family of Mary Jo Kopechne, might not be too upset that he's gone. I'm just saying.
At the end of the day what is most significant about the passing of Ted Kennedy is that it is really, finally, the passing of Camelot. A whole generation of Americans grew up with the Kennedys as their Royal Family. This, when there should not be any royalty to revere.
But the name Camelot, as it has been applied to the Kennedy family, says much about liberalism. Elitists (i.e., royalists) who believe in their own superiority over the common man (i.e., us serfs). Even the kings and queens of old gave alms to the poor, and this is exactly what liberals have done, are doing, and will try to go on doing: being compassionate with other people's money.
I could be pretty darn compassionate myself if I only had other folk's money to spend instead of mine own, but the words of Margaret Thatcher come back to me now: the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Isn't this what is happening today? We're running out of money. We're running out of the jobs that create wealth. We're running out of the money that is available to be taxed to pay for government of any form. We're running out of money.
Many whom I have talked to since our President Obama was elected are terrified that he is out to destroy America, as we know it. I repeat here what I have told others before; I do not fear President Obama or his policies. Why? Because America is greater than him and them.
Obama has a vision of America similar in many respects to the vision Ted Kennedy had. Similar enough that Ted endorsed Obama during the primaries. It is possible that Ted Kennedy knew even back then of his ailment and passed the torch, so to speak. Only, I don't think Obama, or anyone else on the left for that matter, has what it takes to carry it.
Camelot is crumbling away and the last lit torch has dimmed and gone out. Long live America.
