BigMG Says So

Paraprosdokian

2012-01-31T03:56:00.001-07:00

Definition: "Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous situation."

"Where there's a will, I want to be in it," is a type of paraprosdokian.

1. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.
3. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
8. Evening news is where they begin with 'Good Evening,' and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
10. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks.
12. Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'
13. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.
17. I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
18. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
19. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
20. There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.
21. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
22. You're never too old to learn something stupid.
23. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
24. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
25. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
26. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
27. A diplomat is someone who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip.
28. Hospitality is making your guests feel at home even when you wish they were.
29. I always take life with a grain of salt. Plus a slice of lemon, and a shot of tequila.
30. When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.
32. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

2012-01-18T17:23:00.000-07:00

There are actually two messages here. The 1st points out the incredible benefits of Universal Healthcare and is very interesting; the 2nd is absolutely astounding - and explains a lot.

1.A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.

Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:
U.S. 65%
England 46%
Canada 42%

Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:
U.S. 93%
England 15%
Canada 43%

Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:
U.S. 90%
England 15%
Canada 43%

Percentage referred to a medical specialist
who see one within one month:
U.S. 77%
England 40%
Canada 43%

Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
U.S. 71
England 14
Canada 18

Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":
U..S. 12%
England 02%
Canada 06%

Check this last set of statistics!!

2..The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.

Here are the percentages.
T. Roosevelt................... 38%
Taft............................... 40%
Wilson .......................... 52%
Harding.......................... 49%
Coolidge....................... 48%
Hoover ......................... 42%
F. Roosevelt...................50%
Truman........................ 50%
Johnson........................ 47%
Nixon............................ 53%
Ford............................. 42%
Carter........................... 32%
Reagan..........................86%
GH Bush....................... 51%
Clinton ......................... 39%
GW Bush...................... 55%

And the winner is:

Obama.................. 08%

This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in a job not supported by tax money!

That's right! Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business? They know what's best for GM, Chrysler, Wall Street, and you and me?

How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had one? And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers? They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers." They should have been in an employment line.

China builds super-scary-secret-weapon...

2011-12-17T06:18:00.008-07:00

...That we've known about for 40 years.

Couldn't resist. Getting sick of all these diversions around the world that our political advertising systems uses to help drive us over the cliff.

BigMG
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 8:16am
All this hand-wringing over a retrofitted scrap of 1980′s era Soviet engineering? Those Soviet clowns couldn‘t even properly build things they’d been stealing from us since the 1920′s. That so-called ‘stealth’ plane they rolled out looked more like an anvil with an engine. They can steal our technology, but they can’t steal our innovation. That has to be done from within. And, it is.
China is just getting ready to pick up the pieces after we self destruct. Diversion will be their best weapon.
The only problem is that China is self destructing also. Whole ‘planned communist paradise cities’ are uninhabited. Tens of thousands workers lie dead, mostly buried alive, in China’s proletariat dream. Close to 200,000 protests in less than a decade; where workers would rather face the end of a gun than work in these hell holes.
Let‘s not forget that China’s hell hole work environment is courtesy of United States Unions, who have forced labor overseas for the sake of their own power. We share in the blood shed for global Communism. But, through our dept, we in a sense own them.
So, when we get upset over a 40yr. old scrap heap retrofitted by a nation of slaves, remember: IT IS A DIVERSION.

The most obvious answer is to fix ourselves first.
Is China planning of taking Taiwan? When haven't they been? What FDR failed to do in the 1940's, Obama may succeed in doing if reelected. But, who cares? Walmart is having a sale...

How's That Dope 'n Change? GE Leaves USA.

2011-11-30T14:27:00.003-07:00

GE leaves USA

General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha, Wis., to Beijing. In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year. but paid no taxes-the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the united States.

So let me get this straight. President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help create jobs.

I guess the President forgot to tell him in which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs. Then again, perhaps he did exactly as the President instructed (through his Union puppeteers).

If this doesn't show you the total lack of leadership of this President, I don't know what does. Please pass this information to others and think about it before you buy a GE product.

Herman's Harem

2011-11-29T22:18:00.004-07:00

Yet another woman comes forward. This one claiming to have had a 13 year affair with the multi-tasking presidential candidate. Either this frisky front runner has a social calendar that looks like that of a dentist who takes medicare, or there are a lot of people who don't want to see a conservative black man in the race.

Whether those would be DNC, or GOP, or both, remains to probably never be seen.

What is clear at this point is:
Herman, you should have run as a Democrat.
Your alleged sexual prowess would have made you a liberal's super star. Your ascension to the presidency would have been a lock.
Bill Clinton, JFK, LBJ, etc., stand aside. Herman's got you beat by a mile.

What is most puzzling about this whole thing is how much this reminds me of the Clarance Thomas kerfuffle. Women popping up like 'Whack-a-Mole', all with financial problems. Anita Hill, for example, wasn't someone anybody wanted on their team, but was good enough for a cush job as a legal professor after the hit was over.

Journalists seem attracted to the same old stories that the racist Democrats loved in the 1800's: The amorous black man stealing the white plantation owner's daughter. Why they still love that story tells us more about who journalists are today than who Herman Cain was a decade ago.

I suspect that Herman may have been careless in the manner in which he handled himself around women. Restaurants aren't exactly the place to find a Harvard grad, unless she was an art major -- but I digress. There may be an abundance of women tired of smelling like the 'soup du jour' and see this as a way out.

Wasn't it Democrat strategist James Carville who said about Bill's trysts, that finding women like this to come forward was as easy as "Dragging a $100 Bill through a trailer park"? But, with Bill there were other witnesses, hush money was paid, threats were made, and many uncooperative folks ended up dead. Especially cops, who can be very influential where testimony is concerned.

Not one member of Herman's Harem seem to mention any hush-money, or any attempt at containment. It's like he never saw any of this coming.

Just sayin'

More Like 'Lack of Class' Warfare

2011-11-29T21:26:00.003-07:00

More Like 'Lack of Class' Warfare
Today, Occu-parasites all over the U.S. are demanding things they have no legal right to take.
Class warfare is at its best/worst laziness, ingratitude, and greed. Just look at the environment they have left behind during these tantrums.

The Real Story of Stuff

The slackers who are getting the free stuff don't like the workers who are paying for the free stuff, because the workers who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the slackers free stuff and the stuff the workers have earned for themselves.

And,

The workers who are paying for the slackers free stuff want the slackers free stuff to stop, while the slackers who are getting the free stuff, want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!

Now

The politicians, who are forcing the workers, that pay for the slackers free stuff, have also told the slackers who are RECEIVING the free stuff, that the workers who are PAYING for the free stuff, are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.

So

The slackers, who are GETTING the free stuff, have been convinced by the politicians that they need to hate the workers who are paying for the slackers free stuff. But, it's the politicians who are forcing the workers to pay for the slackers stuff, and then giving it to the slackers as free stuff in the first place.

We have let the politicians give free stuff for so long that there are now more slackers getting free stuff than there are workers who are paying for the free stuff.

There is something in between the workers and the slackers that is preventing the two from coming to an agreement. That would be the POLITICIAN, or in other times, the MERCENARY.

It is the politician's job to make sure that the workers and the slackers hate one another so that the need for intervention is constant and escalating.

Now understand this.

All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.

The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 231 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. We have one chance to change that in 2012. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.

ELECTION 2012 IS COMING

A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!
Unless YOU Take a Stand!!!

Obama: Gone

Borders: Enforced

Language: English

Culture: Constitution and the Bill of Rights

Compassion: Hand-Up, Not Hand-Out -- Mandatory Drug Screening before Welfare

NO freebies to Non-Citizens whatsoever!

If someone came to this country looking for equal opportunity: Welcome, there is room for them to do it the right way.

If someone came to this country bringing the culture of lawlessness, murder, and corruption with them: Go home. We have no room for criminals.

Proof Uncoverd: The Links between the ACLU and the Communist Party

2011-11-29T06:22:00.002-07:00

What has this to do with anything? First, we have ACLU members in the highest positions of power, including the Supreme Court. Their agenda is quite literal: Replace this Republic with a Socialist / Communist State. Occasionally, they will defend an issue that is consistent with conservative ideas, but that's just a smoke screen.

Proof Uncoverd: The Links between the ACLU and the Communist Party

We all knew the ACLU really stood for American Communist Labor Union.

John Rossomando reports, via The Daily Caller:

Noted author Paul Kengor has unearthed declassified letters and other documents in the Soviet Comintern archives linking early leaders of the ACLU with the Communist Party.

Kengor found a May 23, 1931 letter in the archives signed by ACLU founder Roger Baldwin, written on ACLU stationery, to then American Communist Party Chairman William Z. Foster asking him to help ACLU Chairman Harry Ward with his then-upcoming trip to Stalin's Russia.

The letter suggests Ward intended to visit the Soviet Union to find 'evidence from Soviet Russia' that would undermine the capitalist profit motive.

Baldwin wrote the letter at a time when Stalin was deporting 1.8 million Ukrainian peasants to Siberia under his policy of the forced collectivization of agriculture, which resulted in the deaths of up to 10 million Ukrainians in the two years that followed.

The Ukrainian government considers this to have been an act of genocide.

Foster was a key figure in the early years of the American communist movement who belonged to the ACLU's National Committee in the 1920s, according to FBI documents. He later wrote a book titled 'Toward Soviet America' in 1932 and also testified under oath before Congress that he opposed American democracy.

Another letter on ACLU letterhead Kengor found in the Soviet archives dated Sept. 2, 1932 asks the Communist Party of America for a schedule of Foster's trips around the country and offers to help keep the police at bay. It also asks for the names and addresses of Communist Party representatives in the cities where Foster was speaking.

Kengor also found a flier from 1933 advertising ACLU board member Corliss Lamont as the headline speaker for 'Soviet Union Day,' which its organizers hoped would 'answer lies and slanders of enemies of the Soviet Union.'

The documents found their way into the Soviet archives because the Communist Party sent all of its correspondences to the Comintern in Moscow for safekeeping, according to Kengor.

Other documents released in the 1990s by KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin show the American Communist Party was under the Moscow's direct control until 1989.

'These guys were advocating a regime that arguably was the biggest mass murderer in all of human history,' Kengor said. 'Where is the moral authority in that?'

Kengor told The Daily Caller he found numerous other documents in the Soviet Comintern archives that also show a close relationship between the Communist Party and the ACLU.

Declaration of Rights & Responsibilities

2011-08-25T14:29:00.004-06:00

Enough of this world's foolishness. It is time to take responsibility for ones own actions.

Beck is dead-on right. It is time for the idiots of the world to stop blaming good people when these idiots bring bad consequences upon themselves because of their own irresponsibility.

Thus, we the people do hereby declare not only our rights, but do now establish this bill of responsibilities.

1. Because I have the right to choose, I recognize that I am accountable to God and have the responsibility to keep the 10 commandments in my own life.

2. Because I have the right to worship as I choose, I have the responsibility to honor the right of others to worship as they see fit.

3. Because I have freedom of speech, I have the responsibility to defend the speech of others, even if I strongly disagree with what they’re saying.

4. Because I have the right to pursue happiness, I have the responsibility to show humility and express gratitude for all the blessings I enjoy and the rights I’ve been given.

5. Because I have the right to honest and good government I will seek out honest and just representatives when possible. If I cannot find one then I accept the responsibility to take that place.

6. Because I have the God given right to liberty, I have the personal responsibility to have the courage to defend others to be secure in their persons, lives and property.

7. Because I have the right to equal justice, I will stand for those who are wrongly accused or unjustly blamed.

8. Because I have the right to knowledge, I will be accountable for myself and my children’s education…to live our lives in such a way that insures the continuation of truth.

9. Because I have the right to pursue my dreams and keep the fruits of my labor, I have the responsibility to feed, protect and shelter my family, the less fortunate, the fatherless, the old and infirm.

10. Because I have a right to the truth, I will not bear false witness nor will I stand idly by as others do.

Many people like slavery because they have everything handed to them and they never have to make any difficult decisions. Problem is, when your usefulness as a slave is no longer needed, you become a liability. They shoot you, or more likely, just starve you to death.

Dem Rep Cites ‘Racism’ as Top Reason for Black Unemployment

2011-08-23T15:09:00.002-06:00

First, why would anyone elect some fool in a shiny red hat.

Who only cares about color in America today as a way of fracturing society and fomenting hatred?
Oh, the racist slave owners, *cough-democrats*.

Who cares what color you are when it comes to denying some people a quality education?
Oh, the racist slave owners, *cough-democrats*.

Who advocates the targeted abortions for one particular community?
Oh, the racist slave owners, *cough-democrats*.

All REAL Americans want is competent, hard working, educated, and capable citizens.
No matter what color.

All REAL Americans want is for their fellows to join together and support the greatest nation the world has ever seen.
No matter what color.

Why is it so hard to see that the people pretending to be helping the black community are actually herding them into a plantation of the mind.

Willful slavery is something that this world hasn't seen to this degree, ever. We often state that the last civil war was fought to free the slaves. Did you ever think that the next civil war will be fought to set free slaves who will be fighting to remain slaves. Of every color.

In reality, though, roughly 1/2 of the entire American population has become a slave of the mind. The people who have lost interest in freedom and only want a handout. This is no longer a black-white issue. This is a 'those-who-get-it' issue and a 'those-who-are-wondering-what's-on-TV-right-now'.

By fracturing society and dividing people into smaller, more self-important, insular groups, the slave owners are sapping your life away. Who will care about Social Security or Medicare when the government collapses from millions of paper cuts. How can the slave owners maintain power when they've finally squeezed the last dollar out of the working man and handed it over to the idle male.

Time for Orrin to Go

2011-08-10T05:14:00.008-06:00

After reading Michelle Malkin's assessment on Orrin Hatch, it's pretty much a fact that Orrin is only a Tea Party supporter inasmuch as leech is to the back of your leg. Hitching one free ride after another, while sucking Utah dry of qualified representatives, he has used America to satisfy his ambition.

If anyone thinks for one second that Orrin wouldn't throw any one of us under the bus, think again. His newsletters turn my stomach as I've seen what he really believes through his actions for 36+ years.

We don't need career politicians on either side. Government has become so overwhelmingly large that the demise of this country is a certainty. And, Orrin is leading the charge.

Stop Orrin before he and his RHINO buddies take us all over the cliff.

Orrin Hatch is the antithesis of the Tea Party spirit. He is a mascot for big-spending Beltway entrenched incumbency who has consistently joined hands with destructive Democrats.
He slobbered over corruptocrat Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd.
He co-sponsored the $6 billion national service boondoggle and dedicated it to his good friend Teddy Kennedy, with whom he also joined hands to create the ever-expanding SCHIP entitlement.
He supported tax cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner from day one, lavished praise on Joe Biden’s balls, and embraced and defended Attorney General Eric Holder’s nomination because, he said, “I like Barack Obama and I want to help him if I can.”
He was an original sponsor of the open-borders DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout and voted for the massive TARP bailout.
How do real Tea Party people feel about Tea Party pretender Orrin Hatch?
The same way they feel about his former big-spending entrenched incumbent in Utah — former Sen. Bob Bennett — who got the boot in May.
...
Now, the six-term Hatch — first elected in 1976 on an anti-entrenched incumbent platform (Hatch’s campaign line then against his opponent Frank Moss:“What do you call a Senator who’s served in office for 18 years? You call him home”) — wants to stay in Washington yet another term after FOUR DECADES in government. He has been lining up some big conservative names. And now there is some sort of pro-Hatch, anti-Freedomworks website using my words to support Hatch.
I don’t know what the beef is between Dick Armey and Orrin Hatch. But I will tell you this: While Armey’s pro-amnesty stance bothers me, bailout Swamp Creature Orrin Hatch’s desperate bid to cling to power by morphing himself into a Tea Party cheerleader aggravates me far more.
I will do whatever I can to support Hatch’s challenger — likely the staunch conservative GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who is a fiscal warrior, tough on illegal immigration, and has a terrific record taking down the GOP establishment.

Time to elect responsible, adult, leadership. Not Marxist children.

Why We All Need To Pay More Taxes

2011-07-29T08:23:00.003-06:00

It's apparent that we all need to pay more taxes. A whole lot more.

Why?

Not for much needed upkeep of our roads, bridges, and highways. (That's a State issue anyway)
Not for a viable space program that emphasizes scientific progress and economic innovation. (Should be privatized today)
Not for the best military in the world, and providing the tools for their protection. (One of the THREE constitutional duties of the Federal Gvmt)
Not for maintaining law and order, and crafting fair law applicable for all US Citizens. (That's #2, and completely neglected as well)
Not for regulating the supply and stability of a national currency. (#3 and, well, let's ask FDR about that one)

No, we need to pay more taxes for ENTITLEMENTS which will gobble up 58% of the budget.

And, here is the perfect example:

Debt Ceiling

2011-07-20T19:52:00.001-06:00

Atheists to Fly July 4 Airplane Banners in 27 States: ‘God-LESS America,‘ ’Atheism is Patriotic’

2011-07-01T17:17:00.004-06:00

BigMG
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 7:13pm

…There [is] no law against a man’s belief…
That is the loophole and I don’t have a problem with that. Atheism by its very definition is a philosophy and a belief. By saying that one ‘believes’ that there is no god, they embrace a counter set of beliefs. It is when one hides their beliefs and ridicules another that lies begin to be told. Unfortunately, atheism cannot stand without leaning on a belief in God, and then attacking God for being God.
It’s like how C.S. Lewis puts it, how can you recognize a crooked line without knowing what a straight line is?
If atheists want to promote their beliefs, let them do so; without an appeal to the existence of God.
Now, try not to think of shooting an elephant…

Now the story (always read the end first, then work upwards)

Here is the meat of the story: Atheists are claiming 'persecution' because those intolerant Christians won't help them ridicule Christian beliefs.

Imagine that...

But, the campaign hasn‘t even been implemented yet and it’s already off to a rocky start. According to Justin Jaye of Fly Signs Aerial Advertising, the guy who helped organize the nation-wide blitz, of the 85 people in the nation who are able to fly these banner-bearing planes, only 17 agreed to participate. The fear of public reaction and the confines of personal religious belief led the majority of these individuals to refuse service. SeattleWeekly.com has more:

Scott…tells Seattle Weekly that in larger cities and more liberal areas, he had no trouble finding pilots to take the banners to the sky. But in Southern states like Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas and other conservative states like Montana, Kansas, and Utah, there apparently wasn’t a single pilot to be found who would fly a banner promoting atheism.
...“This is a clear reminder of why we need to keep fighting because the bigotry against us is so thick that a lot of the pilots are afraid to fly our banners.”

Boo-Freaking-Hoo...

Smilin' Jon Huntsman abandons pro-life platform at the drop of a hat.

2011-07-01T14:12:00.001-06:00

Great, just what we need, another No-Mo that the liberals love, have no values, and pretend to be one of us.

Smilin' Jon Huntsman abandons pro-life platform at the drop of a hat.

http://www.breitbart.tv/huntsman-says-no-to-pro-life-pledge-yes-to-ebryonic-stem-cell-research/

This leads me to ask of the top 6 Mormons in politics, Reed, Hatch, Bennett, Romney, Huntsman, and Leavitt: If any of them were to be tried as a Mormon, based on voting record or behavior, who would you convict and who acquit?

If politics and a moral compass are mutually exclusive in today's politics, since when did this happen?

Was George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, or any other founding father, pro-secularist?

Then what was the Constitution based on?

Moral Law

That Magical Science Thingey

2011-06-30T07:03:00.003-06:00

Team America star, Aleck Bawldwin, head of the Film Actors Guild, has yet another pithy tweet that reveals his deep understanding of science...

"Wind, magnified photo-voltaic, geo-thermal, ocean current could do it all."

How Things Work Around Here

2011-06-13T18:58:00.002-06:00

Little Johnny

The kids filed back into class Monday morning. They were very excited. Their weekend assignment was to sell something, then give a talk on productive salesmanship.

Little Sally led off: "I sold girl scout cookies and I made $30," she said proudly, "My sales approach was to appeal to the customer's civil spirit and I credit that approach for my obvious success." "Very good," said the teacher.

Little Mary was next: "I sold magazines," she said, "I made $45 and I explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current events.” "Very good, Mary" said the teacher.

Eventually, it was Little Johnny's turn. The teacher held her breath ... Little Johnny walked to the front of the classroom and dumped a box full of cash on the teacher's desk. "$2,467" he said. "$2,467!" cried the teacher, "What in the world were you selling?"

"Toothbrushes," said Little Johnny.

"Toothbrushes!" echoed the teacher, "How could you possibly sell enough tooth brushes to make that much money?"

"I found the busiest corner in town," said Little Johnny. "I set up a Dip & Chip stand and gave everybody who walked by a free sample."

They all said the same thing, "Hey, this tastes like dog crap!"

Then I would say, "It is dog crap. Wanna' buy a toothbrush?"

"I used the Obama approach of giving you something shitty for free, and then making you pay to get the taste out of your mouth."

The Green Thing

2011-06-13T13:12:00.003-06:00

Before environmentalism, there was conservation. They might appear to be the same thing, but they are vastly different. Essentially, environmentalism is an emotion while conservation is an action.

In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. The former generation did not care enough to save our environment."

He was right, that generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, they returned their milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

But they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.

In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. They walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go two blocks.

But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day.

Back then, they washed the baby's diapers because they didn't have the throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that old lady is right, they didn't have the green thing back in her day.

Back then, they had one TV, or radio, in the house - not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have electric machines to do everything for you.

When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They exercised by working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right, they didn't have the green thing back then.

They drank from a fountain when they were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. They refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But they didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or rode the school bus instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful the old folks were just because they didn't have the green thing back then?

~Author Unknown~

I doubt that anyone would have tolerated this back when conservation was practiced and not environmentalism.

Beavis and Butthead vs. Emotional Dead Tree Hippies

Mitt Romney on Newsweek cover

2011-06-09T07:18:00.003-06:00

Mitt Romney target of ridicule on Newsweek. What a surprise that is...

Now, this is something we've all gotten used to. A bigoted press attacking a conservative candidate for his/her beliefs. Romney, love him or not, has become the target of such attacks.

"Can a MORMON be trusted in a position of power?"

My question is this:
Why hasn't Harry Reid's MORMONISM ever been brought into question?
Or, more to the point, if he were ever put on trial for being a Mormon, would there be any evidence that might be used against him?

Probably not.

So, taken that conservatives are judged by much higher standards, and that Reid has set the low standard as a politician and Mormon, this ought to be on the next Newsweek front page:

Anthony Weiner Speaks Out !

2011-06-08T11:10:00.005-06:00

Tale of the Sneaky Pringles

2011-06-04T05:56:00.010-06:00

One of my many weaknesses is a good can of greasy, pre-processed, stack-able, potato chips. On the days that I allow myself said indulgence, Walmart is the place to go.

Walmart, being the 12th largest country in the world, GDP-wise, is really good at keeping prices low. Not all the time, but generally Walmart does the job.

The brunt of this low price obsession usually falls on the vendor. The employees are getting better treatment these days, but this is retail for crying out loud; if you don't have customers nobody would be working.

Let's face it, Walmart has created a lot of wealth for everyone. Bitching and whining aside, Walmart has done a spectacular job at providing millions of choices in a clean and safe environment. Ever been to Carnita? In Mexico? Case closed.

This one example has me fascinated though. Walmart's emphasis is always on keeping the margin razor thin. Even when it means getting tough with bigger vendors.

Enter Pringles vs Lays. Essentially the same, except that Pringles has raised their prices by 50%. What used to be a buck is now a buck-fiffdy. That is an outrage! Fiffdy cent? Damn!

Anyway, during my infrequent trips to the chip aisle, I've noticed something interesting:

Trick #1, Pringles started monkeying with their price. A buck, a buck & a quarter, back to a buck, up to one fifty, and back.

Trick #2, Pringles, now a solid $1.50, and Lays, holding strong at $1.00, used to be placed side by side. That created a huge advantage for Lays. Then they began to drift apart. It's always over money, isn't it?

Trick #3, Bulk pricing. Pringles featured a 3 pack for $3.00. You were again getting the product for a buck, you just had to buy three of 'em.

The Pringles display is now ensconced in the coveted center aisle. With its own big sign. Lays still flying off the shelves in the corner.

Trick #4, The imperceptible difference. Pringles sneakily made a can that by itself looks like a regular can. The above photograph proves that the devil in the handlebar mustache is even more devious than once thought.

Results: This 14.5 oz. can is now a buck individually vs. the steadfast 15.5 oz. can, for a buck, from Lays. All this wrangling and posturing over FIFTY CENTS?!

In the end, Lays will end up raising prices as well.

That's not what this story is about. The biggest story of this century will be: How private business always ends up being the responsible ones for insane government policy.

Did Pringles or Lays scream for a bailout? How much Stimulus did they get? Where were the Union blockades demanding that the people pay $5.00 a can, just like in Europe?

The fact is that despite the catastrophic policies via our current Socialist President, his Communist cabinet, and illegal ties with some of the worst people in the world; a hopelessly corrupt Congress (Democrat & Republican alike), U.N. pressure, special interest shills, and lobbying groups; private industry is still managing to keep this economy afloat. Barely. They've lost over 1.5 million productive jobs that were converted into 1 million non-productive government positions. Unemployment has been falsely reported for the last two years as being under 10%, when in fact it is close to 20%. Let's not even start with the regulations...

The tale of the Sneaky Pringles is more about compromise, restraint, dialogue, and strict financial responsibility.

Hell, I'd trade the entire political system for Pringles vs Lays.

"I'm a Pringle-o-crat!" vs. "I'm a Lays-publican!" Can you imagine what our world would be like if our political representatives had to work for a living?

We'd be fighting over FIFTY CENTS instead of FIFTY BILLION.

Where's The Baby...

2011-06-01T07:20:00.003-06:00

THERE'S THE BABY!!!

And you can play that game with a child for hours. Babies will appear completely surprised and then eventually become bored. But babies don't seem to figure out that the same face appears from behind a curtain of hands because NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

Can't think of a better metaphor for our Media today.

Thanks Mr. Barone for pointing out how stupid they think we are. Of course, when the MSM is pointing that finger, there's three pointing back.

“New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly climbed,” reported cnbc.com May 25.

“Personal consumption fell,” Business Insider reported the same day, “when it was expected to rise.”

“Durable goods declined 3.6 percent last month,” Reuters reported May 25, “worse than economists’ expectations.”

“Previously owned home sales unexpectedly fall,” headlined Bloomberg News May 19.

“U.S. home construction fell unexpectedly in April,” wrote the Wall Street Journal May 18.

Barone goes on to quote “How many times in a row can something happen unexpectedly before the experts start to, you know, expect it? At some point, shouldn’t they be required to state the foundation for their expectations?”

Which brings us back to the baby. How many times do we have to be lied to for us to finally say, ENOUGH!

How can 80% of an entire industry still act surprised by economic facts established over 100 years ago?

Weekend At Osama's

2011-05-14T16:34:00.003-06:00

Warning label:
0% Leadership
0% Morals
0% Promises
110% Self-admitted Marxist-Communists
What else could Jimmy O'bama need for his campaign?
A "Lord of the Flies" moment.

Lurid Rapper Gets an Invite to da' House

2011-05-11T07:23:00.002-06:00

First off, apparently it's okay to promote illegal guns, president burning, cop killing, gang violence, and other incoherent bumptiousness, as long as.. What? How much further can Americans retreat?

While owning legal firearms, praising Presidents who once supported the Constitution, assisting and not 'overworking' our local law enforcement, and other *gasp* Christian activities, are considered 'terroristic' according to those same people.

Just what have we become? We demand social justice at the expense of the just. We demand fairness at the expense of those who deserve it the most. We enforce a twisted sense of morality that is arbitrary and twisted.

We pay out trillions of undeserved entitlements, kill our own posterity, and heap blame upon those who are simply aghast spectators of the world's greatest nation imploding. Meanwhile, Sarah Palin will catch hell for criticizing this abomination and we'll just keep moving along.

Hip, Hip, Hurra... Never Mind

2011-05-10T07:15:00.000-06:00

She's Too Good for Everyone

2011-04-29T17:48:00.002-06:00

Clever, maybe a little bit too self revealing. Some things that seem unobtainable are better left that way.

The Welfare State Almost Outnumbers Us Suckers.

2011-04-27T10:06:00.004-06:00

In his piece, "Reliance on Uncle Sam hits a record", Dennis Cauchon, of USA TODAY, begins by stating an Obama dream. "Americans depended more on government assistance in 2010 than at any other time in the nation's history..." "A record 18.3% of the nation's total personal income was a payment from the government..." From the government, that's our taxes folks, not some benign happy faced Santa.

He finishes with this stunner, " Wages accounted for the lowest share of income — 51.0% — since the government began keeping track in 1929."

So, what does that mean? It means that the few of us who work will pay higher and higher amounts of outright taxes, and a multitude of continuing hidden taxes.

Do you really think that by taxing business it won't affect us? It's like sawing off the branch we're sitting on. We, the consumer, pay their taxes. Nobody else. We pay government to produce nothing. Government ROI=ZERO. It's the law. So, who is footing the bill for everything?

Yes, you. You the sucker who elected an "R" or a "D" thinking they were for the little guy. You that sucker who joined a Union thinking that they were helping you. All the people you let grab more and more power from you have been laughing you in the face all the while.

We have been warned for over 75 years that this day will come. A day when the takers will outnumber the suckers. A day is soon coming when the suckers will stop giving. They will have woken up. The day the suckers start standing up for themselves is the day this all turns around.

Where will all the takers be then? Let's ask Stalin, since all the Proggers love him.

That wasn't an earthquake at Target last month

2011-04-25T16:29:00.004-06:00

When I first saw this I thought, "Doesn't California have enough earthquakes?!"
Second question was simply, where did all the funding come from? Who organized this? Who bought all those bagged lunches and hired the buses to drive them in from their gated enclaves?

Of course, SEIU.

I've seen this kind of crowd before; upper East Bench housewives with nothing to do and full of self-righteous-do-gooderism born of a complete ignorance for how the real world works. A catered protest where they have to be transported some distance to be among their commoner serfs is so full of hypocrisy that one struggles to understand. But, there is nothing to understand. It is self loathing and visceral. A flash in the pan, no skin in the game, pot stirring.

They protest loudly, ruin everyone else's day, and then after a safe bus ride to a more safe part of town, smugly hop into their Volvo SUV's and drive home in time to yell at the maid for not preparing dinner before young Heathclif has to make his no-score soccer game at the club.

Marx, Freud, and Progressives generally, have all always found a wealth of 'useful idiots' to whip up into a mindless emotional frenzy among the ranks of ungrateful elitists.

Re: Fw: Fwd: FW: And most of the countries hate us

2011-04-20T06:07:00.002-06:00

So, I get this "Re: Fw: Fwd: FW:" message sent straight to me via my Inter-Web-Electrical-Mail-Reading-Machine and forthwith conclude that this message must be of the uppermost urgency to be attended to immediately. After all, with all those exclamation marks it must be a life of death issue.

Oh, read on dear reader, you decide:

Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with
all the people that run this country!!!!!! Both

Republicians

Democrats

We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????

In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , Pakistan, Lybia, Egypt and Turkey .. And now Japan

Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!

Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour
Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!
We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.
AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc.

YET......................
They have a 'Benefit' for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies.

Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.

Sad isn't it?

99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.
I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did

And it was a stupid thing to do.

Actually, the amount of entitlement spending that goes to medicare, medicaid, social security, and other ponzi schemes, (that depend an increase of payments over time), far outstrip our foreign spending. By TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

To include religious organizations is a clear liberal foul, since conservatives VASTLY out-contribute in helping the poor via charitable contributions both locally and internationally. They give and give and give. Compare the tax returns from our elected officials and see that our current president, vp, and his liberal cabinet typically donate 2% - 4% to charity (and those are all liberal causes which ALSO receive government contributions).

Your 'government' can only take and take and take. What they dribble out isn't charitable, it bribery.

Add to that the fact that RICH or POOR, conservative Christians contribute between 10% to 30% and more after paying their taxes, which constitute all of the governments wasteful overspending.

THE VERY SAD FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT PRIVATE, CHRISTIAN, CONSERVATIVE, *GASP* TEA PARTY TYPES, ARE THE ONES WHO CARRY THE BULK OF CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.

What is worse, GOVERNMENT has caused ALL of these problems. Social Security was never, NEVER, intended to act as a retirement plan. But, once the mega corporations (fascist, government controlled) realized that they didn't need to pay pensions to the serfs, and that the government would see to that, they raided those pension plans.

You can't adopt American children for two reasons: First, ONE AND A QUARTER MILLION, 1,250,000 children are aborted yearly. That is TWO AND A QUARTER A SECOND!
In the time it took me to write this response, almost one thousand children were THROWN IN THE TRASH. Not one abortion was performed by a Christian.

And, you and I paid for each one of them.

Second, adoption regulations in the US are much stricter than adopting abroad. Most families try for years to adopt locally but are met with faceless government bureaucrats who prevent, delay, and frustrate the process.

And, you and I paid for that too.

Third, most 'mothers' are not willing to give up a child that will likely be raised in squalor and abuse for one simple reason: We will pay her to keep this ransom baby. She will get free food, free rent, free cable, and a wide variety of paramours willing to impregnate her repeatedly for more benefits.

The government should not be giving us ANYTHING, except for three things: 1. National Defense 2. Civil law & enforcement 3. A stable currency

All other benefits were meant to be private organizations and local government, to avoid what is happening right now; the bankrupting of our country.

My point is this: WE DON'T NEED MORE GOVERNMENT, WE NEED LESS.

WHAT WE DO NEED, AND SOON, IS A MASS REALIZATION THAT THERE IS A MORAL AUTHORITY -- NAMELY GOD -- WHO HAS BEEN IGNORED IN THE LAST DECLINING 100 YEARS.

Finally, what is the government? It is people. We are all people. Just, those people get paid twice as much as you or I do, to work half as much, and accomplish a mere fraction of what an intact family and community could.

Don't believe all that liberal - progressive bilge. Our problems lie in demanding from government more of what we already hate.

Why Women Have Such a Tough Time Choosing Colors

2011-04-12T19:50:00.004-06:00

When it comes to colors, men have an easier time of it. Mainly because, for men, there are usually 8 or so colors to choose from.

Add to that, each color has only one emotion: boobs.

Wireless Technology

2011-04-10T20:34:00.003-06:00

Yep...

Where Were You When We Needed You, Orrin?

2011-04-09T19:53:00.002-06:00

Lately, the Senator has been sending an email (unsolicited) to my inbox trying to convince me that the new, fist swinging, Orrin Hatch, is the only person who can 'bring the government under control.'

My response is, where were you when we needed you? When you were chummy with the Communist, Ted Kennedy, making deals that expanded government into education and making it the unworkable public sector mess it is today; where were you, Mr. Private Sector Conservative?

When your buddy Bill Bennett (we won't even touch his record) promised to push term limits and only run that many, where were you? When we needed a voice in judiciary appointments, too countless to name here, where were you? For the countless times we needed someone who would push government intrusion, regulation, and higher taxes, crushing private sector initiative; where were you?

I voted for your sorry ass every-single-election because you were a hair better than the Democrat -- a single hair. "Better the Devil you know", as Kipling would say. Well, he got one thing right. You had the political capital, the support of the people, and dare I say, the moral impetus of a religion that values freedom above all else; so, where were you?

I'll tell you. You were never where you needed to be for the right reasons because your reasons were different from ours. You are a political chameleon willing to change colors to blend in with the background. Chameleons are creatures that specialize in not standing out. Mission accomplished.

Now you have a savvy new email campaign, website, and all that hip tech that makes you look all next generation Tea Party and all that. Doubtless, you paid top dollar (of our money) to make yourself over for the millionth time so that when elections roll around we'll elect another Orrin Hatch, not the old one, but the hip new Orrin; the Orrin that this time cares about freedom.

I get your newsletters full of cut 'n paste banality and wonder if you've ever read anything about the world around you. The bullet point topics, like "The Importance of Tax Reform" are so incredibly stupid that it could make a persons head explode. Of course, the article has the link to another one of your bland speeches stating the obvious in as colorless way as possible.

So, Orrin, where were you when we needed you?

Helping yourself to our favors and then vanishing.

Senator Captain Bullshit rides the Social Security bandwagon into the wall

2011-04-05T02:22:00.001-06:00

THIS SENIOR CITIZEN NAILED IT !

Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming, Co-Chair of Obama's deficit commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security" to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.

Here's a response in a letter from a unknown fellow in Montana ...

I think he is a little ticked off! He also tells it like it is !

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"Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight..

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY YEARS.

2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).

3 My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would have made Bernie Madoff proud.

4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and your ilk pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age 67. NOW, you and your shit commission is proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.

5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now you morons propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the bills.

6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why?

Because you incompetent bastards spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.

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To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" on your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU.

1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?

2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?

3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?

4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?

It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress, who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcases who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes. That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers. You know it, we know it, and

you know that we know it.

And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch.

14 yr old Girl Raped by Cousin, Tired for Adultry, and Whipped to Death

2011-04-01T17:15:00.002-06:00

This is the face of EVIL. This is the culture that we are inviting to our shores, supporting all over the world, and will be punished by if things keep going the way they are.

The imam at the local mosque said she was guilty of having an affair with a married man. Her family said she was raped. The imam disagreed. He ordered a fatwa: 101 public lashes. She lasted only 70.

14-year-old Hena Akhter was found guilty of adultery and sentenced to 101 public lashes under Shariah law.
She died from being flogged — despite Shariah law being outlawed in Bangladesh — but doctors tried to cover that up.
Her family claims she was raped by a cousin.
Police are now "investigating" the incident.

Not only was she raped by her own relative, but the Islamic community supported her torture and murder by covering up the cause of death, "an initial autopsy report cited no injuries and deemed her death a suicide".

This would be an outrage if the press had any courage whatsoever. Instead, they just cower and write fatuous stories about how bad America is.

I thought the grand liberal chant was, "It's for the children." See how little they really care.

I apologize: Obamulus does work

2011-03-31T06:34:00.004-06:00

As it turns out the people at Red Square set me straight about all of Obama's Marxist programs. Yes, it was me, I was looking at the Stimulus as a massive black hole where billions of our tax dollars were lavished uselessly on make-work projects that expand the federal bureaucracy and provide huge cash flow to democrat political campaigns and propaganda.
This graphic vividly demonstrates just how successful Stimulus was. BTW: Stimulus is now the name for a thing, like Godzilla and Helen Thomas.

Who doesn't like communal puddin'?

2011-03-30T12:19:00.001-06:00

Okay, just how sanitary is this? A giant mound of communal puddin'. Yum!

You're gonna have to burn that uniform to get the commie off.

2011-03-30T12:03:00.002-06:00

One look says it all. Our soldiers are not stupid and they know you are playing them for the fool.
Your strategy is to deplete the military and ruin morale.
It won't work. The American Serviceman believes in something bigger than your ego; they believe in American greatness and the God who blessed this land. Long after your moment is gone there will be an accounting. We can wait.

Where have all the lefties gone?

2011-03-30T12:00:00.000-06:00

Those Who Forget History Will Get Their Junk Squeezed

2011-03-30T06:56:00.006-06:00

In preparation of the upcoming vacation season means everyday citizens will be traveling by air.
The great news is that it's OPEN GROPE SEASON!

What disturbs me the most is that amidst an avalanche of world uprising and murder, getting groped by the TSA isn't even an issue anymore.
I used to get a laugh by calling the leader of the free world, 'Present Jimmy O'bama', after the most inept president ever. This isn't funny anymore. In just the space of a few years we've gone from steering a progressive agenda off the cliff with Bush to kicking in the afterburner and heading straight for the bottom. The leftist glee of seeing if we can break the speed of sound before pounding straight into the desert floor of death and ruin is suicidal.
Even in NY, when stupid, intrusive, laws begin to affect 'them', suddenly the proggers are all about reform. Instead, they get a good re-wording.

"Our big, loving federal government picked up the same concept - only now it upgraded it from "random" to "universal - or as they say in New York, "the whole schmear." ...
"After a few short months even the progressive New Yorkers found the practical implementation of their own ideas of fairness and redistributive justice too absurd to continue."

It was a given that after a dismal election, an avowed Marxist revolutionary was now the president elect. Everyone knew what he was. Some agreed, some in vapid denial, most were appalled. The progressives got what they told us we wanted, problem is, once they sell a pack of lies they have to constantly upgrade those lies using truth as the hook--which immediately gets discarded.

"As we can see, even the toughest proponents of utopian relativist morality still need to rely on absolute standards in order to survive and advance their careers. No one can live on junk values alone; that utopian world exists entirely at the expense of the reality-based universe. Those who claim to live solely by impossible utopian principles are only deluding themselves and the others."

Now, as the State rises in power, and more Americans find themselves in poverty and chains than anybody will dare admit, folks are too overwhelmed to even care. They are further pressed into the cognitive dissonance of accepting a utopian worldview because the alternative might mean work. Commitment and work.
The TSA has just been unionized.
We can now expect an exponential expansion in numbers and uses of 'check point searches'. Proggers will be the ones demanding it. Proggers will beg for slavery.
For those Obamaites, how does it feel to get your junk squeezed as a slave now?
For the rest of us: Love, pray, serve, and be patient. God will punish the wicked with the wicked.

Full digital access to NYT.com to cost $455

2011-03-29T07:20:00.004-06:00

What a terrific idea!
Charge for content nobody wanted to read when it was free.

Hint: try what the WSJ is doing by providing quality content from respected and OBJECTIVE reporting.

What NYT seems to not understand is that they're not government. When revenues go down they cannot raise taxes and have an army of thugs to ensure that you pay up.
The NYT cannot raise prices and demand more people buy something that they didn't really want for free.

Double down on stupid.

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

2011-03-23T21:07:00.001-06:00

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

1. Term Limits.

12 years only, one of the possible options below..

A. Two Six-year Senate terms

B. Six Two-year House terms

C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms

2. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 12/1/11.

The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

Shocking Tea Party Violence!

2011-03-22T14:40:00.001-06:00

If this doesn't convince you of the shocking violence spewed forth by the Tea Party, nothing will...

Steven King Bashes GOP... For Not Giving Enough to Charity

2011-03-16T04:27:00.005-06:00

Idiots on Parade...

I guess nobody told Steven King that conservatives VASTLY OUTSPEND LIBS IN PER-CAPITA CHARITABLE DONATIONS. Especially to the poor.

Should be on the NewYorkTimes: "Steven King Volunteers His Wealth to Taxes."

Did he consider that his elitist Limousine Liberal pals might not like that idea?

The idea that the self hating non producing rich seeks to destroy itself is axiomatic by now. With Marx’s circular logic feeding their loathing, it is still going strong. Getting too much too soon often produces ingratitude. With ingratitude a person looses all sense of charity and expects someone else to do it all for him.

That is the moral dilemma that people like S.K. can’t work their way out of. Stealing from ‘the rich’ means them, but not THEM, the other them; like those them over there, the bad them.
Look in the mirror buddy, YOU ARE the "Bad Them".

Oh, and this: Obamacare a ‘Platform’ for Socialized Medicine — Rep. Conyers Makes Startling Admission

The Octopus: $200 Million Well Spent?

2011-03-10T04:21:00.006-07:00

Yes.

What is interesting is the scale and who really benefits.
We consider this an excess, but to Paul Allen, it would be like us going out and buying a toy boat.

If Paul's worth is $200b that is 100,000 percent of $200m. Paul could buy 1,000 yachts.

Unlike most of us, he can employ hundreds of thousands of people directly and indirectly. So, 200 billion is actually tied up in utilizing their productivity and creating more wealth.
So, this is not static wealth, but dynamic wealth.

Compare this to the stimulus, which consists of money confiscated from productive people by an organization that by law cannot produce anything for profit -- government.
When the government says that it is investing in anything, that is not true. Government can only fund projects that by law cannot return that funding.

Said stimulus is then lavished, not invested, on bogus programs that only exist for reelecting the same people intent of stealing more dynamic wealth and converting it into even more static wealth.

People bitch about oppression, but don't realize that more government only means more oppression. Who wants to risk anything only to have it confiscated by a government or a warlord being supported by that government?

Take your time, I can wait...

I wish we had more like Paul Allen.

C.S. Lewis

2011-03-09T03:21:00.006-07:00

When my two oldest were involved in a local play, Narnia, I first made the connection between a reliable quote generator and the author, philosopher, Christian, man. That was almost 20 years ago.
Since then I've read to my children the Narnia series several times and I have consumed many more of his works. C.S. Lewis is still misunderstood amongst the secular community, as this Times article demonstrates.

They focus on his marketability. Why is C.S. Lewis still generating cash for us? They laud his enduring popularity, neglect his basic message, and go to great lengths to find logical loopholes for which to justify their own dismissive attempts on the baseline Christian message.
By baseline Christian message I mean that although he was a converted Anglican, he tried to avoid most doctrinal entanglements.
Here Oppenheimer quotes Mr. Maudlin, an executive editor at HarperOne, who admits as much but as puzzlement:

"Mr. Maudlin became an evangelical Protestant after reading Lewis in college. “But you meet Mormons or Catholics, and their favorite author might be C. S. Lewis,” he said."

The point is, C.S. Lewis outlined a basic Christian set of ideas and standard of behavior as set forth in scripture. There must be something more complicated here, how could this generate commercial demand, C.S. Lewis manage to package Christianity into something that most people can agree on? This is what drives those people nuts!

The one point that C.S. Lewis returns to is that either Jesus is who he says he is, or he is mad, or evil.

That is where this article seems to intentionally deviate. It is a point that just cannot be left alone.

In “Mere Christianity,” Lewis writes of Jesus: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell.”

This famous passage does not, on a second read, make much sense. After all, could not a great moral teacher have messianic delusions? But on a first read, it is quite persuasive, and classic Lewis. It is clear, confident and a bit humorous, and it offers a stark choice as it firmly suggests the right answer.

This concept cannot be left alone. It IS the great stumbling block and rock of offense. And, Oppenheimer's totally weak response, "could not a great moral teacher have messianic delusions?"

Name one.

Their Guy vs. Our Guy

2011-03-07T20:37:00.002-07:00

Their Guy vs. Our Guy

Their Guy:

In case you don't know…these first few pics are of Vladimir Putin (Prime Minister of Russia).

Our Guy:

KINDA SUMS IT UP, HUH? ...

"In God We Trust"

Arizona Governor vs. Phoenix Suns owner

2011-03-06T20:42:00.002-07:00

Arizona Governor vs. Phoenix Suns owner.

The owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team, Robert Sarver, opposes AZ's new immigration laws. Arizona 's Governor, Jan Brewer, released the following statement in response to Sarver's criticism of the new law:

"What if the owners of the Suns discovered that hordes of people were sneaking into games without paying? What if they had a good idea who the gate-crashers are, but the ushers and security personnel were not allowed to ask these folks to produce their ticket stubs, thus non-paying attendees couldn't be ejected. Furthermore, what if Suns' ownership was expected to provide those who sneaked in with complimentary eats and drink? And what if, on those days when a gate-crasher became ill or injured, the Suns had to provide free medical care and shelter?" - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer

Try going to any other country without ID and see how far it gets you.

These are MY People

2011-03-04T09:11:00.002-07:00

Hey, Eric Holder: Meet My People

Michelle Malkin is undoubtedly one of the most consistent at head-on attacks that drive the lefties nuts. Using insane people's own words against them is like a matter / anti-matter collision.

Read her article, go to her webpage. Buy her stuff.

Let's stand up for OUR race: American. <- that's a period, not a hyphen...

We, the Unhyphenated Americans: Meet My People
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011

My fellow Americans, who are "your people"? I ask because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase "my people" in congressional testimony this week. It was an unmistakably color-coded and exclusionary reference intended to deflect criticism of the Obama Justice Department's selective enforcement policies. It backfired.

In pandering to skin-deep identity politics and exacerbating race-consciousness, Holder has given the rest of us a golden opportunity to stand up, identify "our people" and show the liberal poseurs what post-racialism really looks like.

Herman Cain is my people. He's my brother-in-arms. I've never met him. But we are family. We are kin because we are unhyphenated Americans who are comfortable in the black, brown and yellow skin we are in. We are growing in numbers — on college campuses, in elected office, on the Internet, on radio airwaves, everywhere. And that drives liberals mouth-frothing crazy.

Cain is the successful Georgia businessman who has wowed audiences across the country with his passion for free markets, free minds and the American Dream. The former president of Godfather's Pizza and forceful tea party speaker happens to be black. So he must pay the price that all minority conservatives in public life must pay. As I noted last week, a cowardly liberal writer recently derided Cain as a "monkey in the window," a "garbage pail kid" and a "minstrel" who performs for his "masters."

Race traitors. Whores. Sellouts. House Niggas. Self-haters. I've heard it for nearly 20 years in public life. Every outspoken minority conservative has. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but these spiteful epithets can't enslave us.

Val Prieto is my people. A fierce, freedom-loving American blogger of Cuban descent, he rejects race-card games and refuses to be lumped in with Hispanic ethnic grievance-mongers. In response to pro-illegal immigration marchers who infamously desecrated the American flag, Prieto wrote:

"I have never and will never, despite having many issues with the government of the United States throughout the years, burn a flag of the United States of America. I am Cuban by birth, American by the grace of God. And a darned proud, dignified, thankful and respectful American. … I refuse to be lumped together as a class or a race simply because we speak a similar language. … I ain't Mexican, I ain't Latino and I ain't Hispanic. I am an American of Cuban descent. And damned proud of it."

Katrina Pierson is my people. She's a feisty young Texas mom and Dallas tea party activist who supports limited government principles and rejects left-wing identity politics. She confronted the NAACP last year with a rousing manifesto of political independence and rebutted the left-wing group's attacks on the tea party as racist:

"The reality is that we colored people no longer require the assistance from other Negros for advancement," Pierson said. "These groups run to the rescue of distressed brown people only when the media deems it newsworthy. Meanwhile, there are inner city black children who continue to grow up fatherless while sharing a neighborhood with stray bullets, drugs and a plethora of liquor stores on every corner. … I don't believe that the true meaning of this nation's creed was to move black people from one form of slavery to another."

The NAACP, she observed, is made up of "Democrats who bow to a Democrat master today as they once did over 200 years ago. Once this is realized by the forgotten society, race in this country will be as irrelevant as those who thrive off of it." Amen, sister.

Allen West, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and freshman congressman from Florida who happens to be black, is my people. Unafraid to skewer progressive sacred cows, he speaks boldly against global jihad and its Fifth Column enablers screaming "Islam-o-phobe!" West has also nailed the Congressional Black Caucus as "a monolithic voice that promotes these liberal social welfare policies and programs that are failing in the black community, that are preaching victimization and dependency; that's not the way that we should go."

According to U.S. News and World Report's Kenneth Walsh, President Obama told guests at a private White House dinner that he believed the tea party movement had a "subterranean agenda" of racism against him. But Lt. Col. West summed up the movement's transcendent, post-racial agenda forthrightly:

"The tea party is a constitutional, conservative grassroots movement — and that's it. The tea party stands for three things: They want to see effective, efficient constitutional government, they stand for national security, and they stand for free market, free enterprise solutions. That's it."

It's government of, by and for the people — all the people. Not just the ones still shackled by reflexive Democratic Party loyalty. We are beholden not to our skin pigment or ethnic tribes, but to American ideals, tradition, history and faith in the individual.

Three, two, one … RAAAAAAAAAACISTS!

Unions, MuzzleUm Brotherhood, and Dictatorships

2011-03-02T08:41:00.003-07:00

I've come to realize that Unions and Mass-Think are a good thing. Nobody has to worry about putting gas in the car, house payments, or healthcare. We will all swim peacefully in the embryonic ocean of the State, or Caliphate, run by benevolent dictators, or Imams, who will see to our every need.
Or, as C.G. Jung put it (courtesy of Earth Emperor):

In the clamor of the many there lies the power to snatch wish-fulfillments by force; sweetest of all, however, is that gentle and painless slipping back into the kingdom of childhood, into the paradise of parental care, into happy-go-luckiness and irresponsibility. All the thinking and looking after are done from the top; to all questions there is an answer; and for all needs the necessary provision is made. The infantile dream state of the mass man is so unrealistic that he never thinks to ask who is paying for this paradise. The balancing of accounts is left to a higher political or social authority, which welcomes the task, for its power is thereby increased; and the more power it has, the weaker and more helpless the individual becomes.

Yes, I can already sense Obama's Army flooding the streets of the world with nurturing and love.

But, who will pay for all of your wishes come true?
You will.
With blood and terror. The likes of which your childlike mind cannot comprehend.

Beck: What is the American Dream?

2011-03-01T17:31:00.003-07:00

This is really disturbing. What gutbag-of-stupidity can't realize is that business owners work incredible hours, they sacrifice everything, they do what people like that can't comprehend.

I'm furious at this ever increasing attitude of IN-gratitude and where it is leading us.

Watch the latest video at What is the American Dream?

About a Brazilian Bicyclists ...

2011-03-01T08:55:00.002-07:00

Well, all sorts of young and skinny (give 'em 10 years) Brazilians were protesting that people drove too much and should take to their bicycles.

One car proved why I don't ride anymore...

Nobody was seriously hurt, but about 12 got the ride of their lives.

A Lemon Picker

2011-01-30T01:17:00.001-07:00

During these tough economic times, people have been forced to take work almost anywhere.

One such case was a woman who, rather than find herself out on the street, applied for the only job available:

A Lemon Picker

The woman applying for a job in a Florida lemon grove seemed to be far too qualified for the job; given her liberal arts degree from the University of Michigan and her jobs as a social worker and school teacher.

The foreman frowned and said, "I have to ask you this: "Have you had any actual experience in picking lemons?"

"Well, as a matter of fact, I have!"

"I've been divorced three times, owned 2 Chryslers, and I voted for Obama."

Riots in England Explained

2010-12-21T16:54:00.002-07:00

People wonder where those riots in England came from? High tuition? Really?!?
This video is from Sep 2010, the Progressives are being exposed.

The world financial crisis explained in simple terms

2010-12-21T16:41:00.001-07:00

Various incarnations of this story have appeared for about the past two years. It would be nice to find who really wrote it. (It starts out as Heidi's bar in New York). The point is, the last persons to ever take this common sense tale seriously are the people who have the least to loose. Since we keep voting them into office, and they keep tag-team lying, our own lack of interest is what will bankrupt us in the end.
And, that end is very close: "Just who the hell do you people think you are?"

Mary is the proprietor of a bar in Dublin. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).

Word gets around about Mary's "drink now, pay later" marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Mary's bar. Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in Dublin.

By providing her customers freedom from immediate payment demands, Mary gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages. Consequently, Mary's gross sales volume increases massively. A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Mary's borrowing limit. He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral.

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS. These securities are then bundled and traded on international security markets. Naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to them as AAA secured bonds are really the debts of unemployed alcoholics. Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb, and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading brokerage houses.

One day, even though the bond prices are still climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Mary's bar. He so informs Mary.

Mary then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts. Since Mary cannot fulfill her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes and the eleven employees lose their jobs.

Overnight, DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS drop in price by 90%. The collapsed bond asset value destroys the banks' liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community.

The suppliers of Mary's bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms' pension funds in the various BOND securities. They find they are now faced with having to write off her bad debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds. Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers.

Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multi-billion euro no-strings attached cash infusion from their cronies in Government. The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers who have never been in Mary's bar.

If you've read thus far, then also consider that this scenario was explained about 2600 years ago by a prophet named Lehi, backed up by his son Nephi.
The Great and Spacious Building rose high into the air, but had no foundation. It was filled with rich and mocking people who treated others with scorn.
Those who wanted to join this group first had to swim through a river of filth and corruption. Mostly, those filled with such envy never made it; they drown in filth.

The Great and Spacious Building does have a foundation though. It is us. It is the laws we obey. It is the prosperity that we create. This building would not exist were it not for three things:
1. Our reliance in God, and our accountability to Him.
2. Our adherence to societal law (natural law) that fosters mutual trust.
3. Our belief that we can keep what we work for.

Borrowing from C.S. Lewis, the GASB is not eternal evil, but good gone bad. Darkness is nothing but lack of light. Light is intelligence and the pure love of Christ.
Got it?

Dems in front, little people in the back. Says it all

2010-12-08T21:26:00.000-07:00

IF

2010-11-13T19:58:00.001-07:00

If George W. Bush had appointed radical Marxist Communists, some who openly denounce the United States and call for its VIOLENT OVERTHROW, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had stated that there were 57 states in the United States , would you have said that he is clueless.

If George W. Bush would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in Texas , would you have thought he was a self important, conceited, egotistical jerk.

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had misspelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoes as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America , would you have approved.

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then looted the treasury (taxpayer's) of billions under the guise of 'stimulus' and used that money to fund frivolous liberal spending sprees and Democrat political special interest groups, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had ties to, and support from, the most radical Communist, Marxist, Fascist, Progressive people in the U.S., would you have approved?

Or Health Care, or National Defense, or Border Security, or Muslim Terrorism (instead, targeting Christians and Service Men & Women), or Net Neutrality (thought police), or live birth 'abortion' (technically infanticide), or covering up past ties with horribly corrupt and dangerous Chicago 'community organizers' sponsors and terrorists?

If the majority of news outlets (Fox News and a few others exempted) acted as tone-deaf shills who shamelessly pandered and campaigned for George W. Bush, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive?

Can't think of anything?

Don't worry. You'll have two more years to come up with an answer.

'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as
the will and moral courage of free men and women.' - Ronald Reagan

Congressional Reform Act of 2010

2010-11-03T23:20:00.001-06:00

1. Term Limits.

   12 years only, one of the possible options below..

   A. Two Six-year Senate terms
   B. Six Two-year House terms
   C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms

2. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately.
All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.

The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.
Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators that would serve their term(s), then go home and back to work thereby ensuring our Legislators "stayed in touch" with reality.

A Christmas Tale, or Where's My Change?

2010-10-23T12:37:00.001-06:00

This warning appeared around 2008, warning us about the perils of electing a Democrat.
And an Obamacrat to boot.

We have now seen our country pulled apart by people who truly belong in prison, and not leading this country.

This is no longer just a Republican vs Democrat problem.

THIS IS A GOVERNMENT PROBLEM

Twas the night before elections
And all through the town,
Tempers were flaring;
Emotions all up and down.

I, in my bathrobe,
With a cat on my lap,
Had cut off the TV,
Tired of political clap-trap.

When all of a sudden,
There arose such a noise,
I peered out my window,
Saw Obama and his boys.

They had come for my wallet,
They wanted my pay
To give to the others
Who had not worked a day.

He snatched up my money,
And quick as a wink
Jumped back on his bandwagon
As I gagged from the stink.

He then rallied his henchmen
Who were pulling the cart
I could tell they were out
To tear my country apart.

On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden and Ayers!
On Acorn, on Pelosi!
He screamed at the pairs!

They took off for his cause,
And as they flew out of sight,
I heard him laughing at the nation,
Who wouldn't stand up and fight.

So I leave you to think,
On this one final note-
IF YOU DON"T WANT SOCIALISM
GET OUT AND VOTE!!!!

GOD BLESS AMERICA, OUR ONLY HOPE!

IF (pardon to Kipling)

2010-09-09T19:36:00.000-06:00

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a TelePrompTer installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had stated that there were 57 states in the United States , would you have said that he is clueless.

If George W. Bush would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in Texas , would you have thought he was a self important, conceited, egotistical jerk.

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had misspelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoes as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America , would you have approved.

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 15 months -- so you'll have two years and nine months to come up with an answer.

Apache, Arizona - Our Secure Border

2010-08-29T01:19:00.001-06:00

Apache, Arizona - Our Secure Border

July 28th, 2010

By Ed Ashurst

Apache Arizona

I believe story telling to be an art form, certainly verbal record is the oldest form of recording history and recognized by historians worldwide. There is an old adage among those who love to tell a good tale, "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." And yet there are times when the truth is even more fantastic than exaggeration. What I write here is the truth, plain and simple.

I reside on, and manage a large cattle ranch in the far southeastern corner of Arizona. I've been here for 13 years and in that time frame have become far too familiar with the illegal trafficking in human beings, marijuana and other illicit drugs. Some have called it "the wetback culture" or "America's border problem". Lately it's been taking steroids.

The recent murder of Robert Krentz by an illegal alien has received massive amounts of publicity worldwide. I live on the ranch bordering the Krentz ranch to the east and north. I can see the Krentz home looking out of my front door approximately 10 miles away. The day after Rob's death I was involved in tracking the outlaw into Mexico. I saw the outlaw's footprints where he crossed the border fence. I mention this to say I feel that I'm qualified to speak about current border issues.

My home has been broken into twice. My son's home has been broken into also and between us we have had between twenty and thirty thousand dollars worth of stuff stolen from us including two ranch pick-ups, a four wheeler, 9 firearms (including a loaded AK 47) cash, jewelry all of our credit cards, driver's license, etc. A guest house here on the ranch has been broken into so many times we quit counting... many times we haven't even called the Sheriff's dept. The Cochise County Sheriff's dept. has no less than fifteen reports on file where I've called for assistance dealing with an outlaw illegal alien.

Several months ago, not long after Rob Krentz's death, Fox news (channel 10 in Phoenix AZ) contacted me and expressed interest in coming down and doing a news story about me and the problems myself and other ranchers in this area have had in recent months with illegal outlaws. To prepare for my interview with Fox, I asked for assistance from six other neighboring ranchers and businessmen. All of these men are prominent men in the community, tax payers, business owners and individuals who have the best of reputations. Together we made a map of the area which covered from the southeastern corner of AZ going west about 20 miles to the silver creek area, and going north about 30 miles to the area around the towns of Portal, AZ and Rodeo, N.M. On this map we made marks recording violations to United States law committed by illegal aliens. We did not use government statistics (we wouldn't know how to get them) but recorded incidents that we knew had happened first hand, many of which we had witnessed. We tried to record only the incidents that have happened in the last several years.

The sum total of what we recorded is this:

The arrest or capture of 40 illegal in one bunch - 40 (we didn't bother with the countless smaller groups)

Loads of Marijuana found and captured - 213

Dangerous encounters with illegal aliens - 132 (assault, burglaries, forced entries, etc.)

Dead illegal aliens found by civilians - 16

High speed vehicle chases between dope haulers and law enforcement - 14

Illegal aliens spotted with firearms - 12

Fires started by illegal aliens - 9

Over 1000, 000 acres burned with the cost to taxpayers of $ 40,000,000. One fire near Portal AZ in June of 2010 cost $10,000,000. to fight (forest Service estimate)

Outlandish incidents - 4

Example: One bachelor in the Portal area was burglarized around 100 times. He finally took all his valuables and put them in a steel vault and welded the door shut. He then moved out of his house into a shed hoping the illegal aliens would leave him alone. They did not and he finally abandoned his property. Another outlandish event was when outlaws stole a brand new Caterpillar motor grader on the Geronimo Trail east of Douglas, AZ and drove south through the border fence never to be seen again. The grader belonged to Cochise County Hwy Dept.

Financial losses to private sector - $100,000,000.00 (losses in real estate value, personal property, etc., losses in wildlife habitat - immeasurable)

Last but certainly not least, the murder of Rob Krentz, which is right in the center of our map.

Let me put this in perspective. The area I'm talking about is an area that covers approximately 17 or 18 townships with only 20 miles being adjacent to the US - Mexico Boundary. Within this area, there is a population of perhaps 600 people, 90% of which reside in Rodeo, N.M. or Portal, AZ, 30 miles or so north of Mexico. No less than 80% of the people in this area have been burglarized or otherwise molested by illegal aliens. This area is about half as big as the Diamond A ranch or Babbitt ranch in northern AZ, both of which I've been employed on.

I'm sorry to report that this, in my opinion, is the small part of the story. The Mexican-American border has taken a dramatic change for the worse in the last several years. Those of us who live here see it first hand. As early as February of 1999 Sheriff Larry Dever warned me and others at a town hall meeting at the Apache School that the Sinaloa Cartel was moving into the Douglas-Agua Prieta area (Rob Krentz was at this meeting). The cities of Nuevo Laredo, Coahila, Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua, and other border towns south of Texas have been controlled by outlaws for years. There is virtually no law enforcement in those places. The law is the law of the jungle. Until the last two years it seemed that Agua Prieta and Nogales were safer places but that has dramatically changed in recent months.

I am personally acquainted with 2 Mexican men, that I know to be honest and trustworthy, who have been involved first hand with Mexican outlaw terrorist acts. One witnessed first hand an execution of several people in broad daylight in Juarez. Several weeks later his daughter witnessed an assassination in Casas Grandes, Chihuahua no less than fifteen feet from where she stood. The other man is a legal Mexican green card holder (who was employed by the Krentz family for years) whose nephew was murdered by cartel members in Sonora. At night people in Douglas are hearing machine gun fire from Agua Prieta south of the border fence.

The Sinaloa Cartel is now putting a stranglehold on Agua Prieta. No more than 2 months ago 8 armed Mexicans were confronted by 2, U.S. Border Patrol agents north of the International Boundary in southeast Cochise County disguised as Federalizes. They were in fact cartel employees armed with assault rifles and automatic pistols. Mexican people that know tell me the situation in Agua Prieta has deteriorated dramatically in recent months. The good people are told to look the other way "or else." Volumes could be written about this subject alone, but I will move on.

You could ask, "So what does this have to do with us living north of the border fence?" Plenty! The situation on the border isn't just about a few workers walking north. It has everything to do with big business. Billions of dollars are being made trafficking humans, drugs, and contraband across the International Boundary. The Sinaloa Cartel, headed by Chapo Guzman and others, is reaping huge profits doing business along the border. The average coyote charges $1500 - $2500 to guide an illegal alien north to find work; usually abandoning them a short distance north of the line. A young man willing to pack dope north can make more than a construction worker or a teacher in the U.S. and only work a day or two a week.

This is not all south of the line. I could take you and show you businesses where checks and credit cards are not accepted and where very few customers walk through the door, yet the owners live in the largest mansions in town and drive very expensive cars. Could there be some money laundering going on? There are only two industries of any significance in Douglas, AZ: law enforcement (Douglas has one of the largest Border Patrol stations in America), and the illegal trafficking of drugs, people, etc. across the border. These two industries feed on each other, and the powers that be seem happy with the situation. Crooked politicians look good to the public when they clean up drunk driving and prostitution, until you find they own bars and whore houses south of the line. These things have happened!

But this, in my opinion, is only the beginning. Chapo Guzman who heads up the Sinaloa Cartel is a multibillionaire. This guy and others like him may be cruel and sinister people but they are also very smart businessmen. They are reaping profits off of the largest tax free unregulated business on the planet. They have so much cash they are befuddled what to do with it all. But they are going to figure it out.

There are rumors that Guzman is financing modern, state of the art feedlots and packing houses in Mexico with plans to overtake America as the Western hemisphere's leading beef producer. This is probably only a small part of his plans. Mexico is a nation rich in natural recourses. Petroleum is abundant and the corrupt Mexican government is in control of all of it. Pemex is the only gas station in town. Pemex, because of the incompetent Mexican government, is broke. Chapo Guzman is at war with the Mexican government and has dreams (not unrealistic) of controlling the entire nation. Think of all of Mexico's natural resources in the control of Chapo Guzman! He already has the most profitable business in the world - selling Marijuana to your next door neighbor. Think what he could do with a tax free unregulated strangle hold on a nation of poor people begging to work for practically nothing.

Do you think that Chapo Guzman and others like him haven't thought of all of this? Do you think that Guzman isn't laughing all the way to the bank as he watches the evening news and hears how the American Government proclaims that the situation on the border is under control? What is going on in northern Mexico is capitalism in its rawest form. They have an untaxed unregulated business making huge profits and they have no plans of closing up shop any time soon. We here in the U.S. are overtaxed, overregulated and being smothered by increasingly intrusive government that makes it hard to do business in a successful manner. You don't have to be rocket scientist to figure this one out.

This has nothing to do with being Republican or Democrat or Latino or White. It has everything to do with being right or wrong. I came from a long line of Democrats. My great uncle was a U.S. Senator for several decades. My grandfather was an attorney, and a Superior Court Judge. I have a 1939 copy of a Time Magazine with his picture when he ran as a Democrat for Congress. The only time in history the U.S deficit was paid off was by a Democrat - Andrew Jackson. John Kennedy announced nearly 50 years ago that America could put a man on the moon and in less than a decade we did it.

I am now a registered Republican, but I'm not a Democrat hater. But, how can the president of the "can do" nation of Andrew Jackson's and JFK's party say we can't seal the border? We conquered Adolph Hitler in World War II, but can't seal the border? We put a man on the moon but can't seal a leaking oil well in less than 90 days? While this is going on we tax and regulate American business with a vengeance that stifles the free market system that has made our country great. While Janet Napolitano announces the border is safer than ever, Chapo Guzman and others pack billions of American dollars south to invest in a tax free market with one of the largest cheap labor force on the planet at his disposal!

I challenge you to come to Douglas, AZ and drive east on the Geronimo Trail, or northeast on US Hwy 80 to places on the map like Chiracahua and Apache. Or go to Rodeo and Hatchita, NM. Go and search out the 5 biggest cattle ranches in the Apache, AZ area and ask them what they think. Go to Hidalgo County, N.M. and ask the ranchers and cowboys there what they are seeing and hearing. Ask the people who we do business with what they think of our opinions. I challenge you to ask the prominent people in this area, who work hard and pay taxes if they agree with Barack Obama or Ed Ashurst when it comes to what is really going on near the U.S.-Mexican border. Unlike Obama and others I don't have to be surrounded by sycophants to make a statement. I purposefully left out the names of those who helped me with my map and the data I collected when preparing for the Fox interview.

In closing I challenge you to look around to see if what I say is the truth. This isn't about a few Mexicans wandering around looking for a job. This is about American civilization going into a time of tremendous change - a building has foundations and walls, maybe the foundation of our country is still strong, I don't know, but the walls have certainly fallen down and the keepers of the house are out to lunch.When you have time, we think you will want to read this.

Everyone living in AZ (and elsewhere) should know what is happening near our borders and near our homes.

the 28th Amendment

2010-06-30T03:16:00.001-06:00

An idea whose time has come.
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform that is being considered... In all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop. This is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come.

Have each person contact a minimum of twenty people on their Address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ."

Just one state

2010-06-27T21:58:00.001-06:00

Not even a left leaning Snopes could call this false.

2 PARTS: READ LAST ONE ABOUT PELOSI

Parts of this were gleaned from the LA Times, and on many occasions Lou Dobbs reported this on CNN. It probably cost him his job. The only network we would see this would be FOX..
All liberal media outlets avoid this story.

This is only one State

If this doesn't open eyes, nothing will!

From various sources including: the L. A. Times, the FBI, various government agencies, and think tank research groups.

1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes.
This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.

2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.

3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.

4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.

7... The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.

8 Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.

10. In L.. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.. (There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County .)

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States' annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.

29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens .

We are fools for letting this continue

PART TWO: NANCY PELOSI'S STUPID & IRRESPONSIBLE COMMENTS

LET'S IMPEACH HER NOW BEFORE SHE DOES FURTHER DAMAGE!! WHAT AN IDIOT!!
WHERE DO WE GET THESE MORONS?

Windfall Tax on Retirement Income

Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you're so darn stupid that we're going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you. That's what the Speaker of the House is saying. Read below...............

Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren't going to believe this.

Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds!

Alas, it is true - all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!

This woman is frightening.

She quotes...' We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't Marx say something like this?), in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.' (I am not rich, are you?)

When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:

'We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as 'Americans'.'
(Read that quote again and again and let it sink in.) 'Lower your retirement, give it to others who have not worked as you have for it'.

Send it on to your friends. I just did!! This lady is out of her mind and she is the speaker of the house!

Guard your PTO like it's gold

2010-06-24T18:04:00.001-06:00

Woman set office fire to go home early

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla., June 24 (UPI) -- A Florida woman accused of starting an office fire to get sent home early with pay pleaded guilty to criminal mischief.

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office said Michelle Perrino, 40, drew suspicion during a meeting of Bayonet Point Oxygen employees when she mentioned the May 12, 2009, fire had started in a filing cabinet before workers had been informed of the fire's origins, the St. Petersburg Times reported Thursday.

Investigators said a friend of Perrino told them she had admitted to tripping the main circuit breaker and adjusting phones to block incoming calls in bids to go home early without sacrificing the day's pay.

Perrino was sentenced to 9 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of probation. She was also ordered to pay Bayonet Point Oxygen $4,800 in restitution and banned from contacting the company or its employees.

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R.J. Obama: Whose 4$$ 2 Kick...

2010-06-19T00:10:00.002-06:00

Oh, no!! It's Jimmy Carter 2010!!!

Hypocrisy at its most spectacular

2010-06-14T17:36:00.002-06:00

Ya gotta hand it to Jimmy O'Bama, what he lacks in competence, he makes up for with ineptitude.

The obvious thing about Marxists is that their arrogance in thinking that they are the smartest most reasoned people on earth is what their greatest weakness has become. For buying into that pile on nonsense, a socialist is by nature incapable of thinking a problem to it's logical conclusion. This surreal habit of projection (pointing out your own faults in others) is where reason takes a holiday.

Fifty four Democratic senators wrote to BP's chief executive, Tony Hayward, demanding that BP put an initial $20bn into a ring-fenced fund. Although BP has pledged to pay clean-up costs and damages, "history has taught us that corporations often fail to live up to their initial promises", the lawmakers wrote. They demanded a response by Friday.

Corporations?? Let's first say that the democrat congress hasn't a leg to stand on with a stupid statement like that.

Second, BP was one of B.O.'s largest campaign contributor, which then makes it political; as with any other large corporation that employs armies of lobbyists. This is fascism, not a republic. This will not end well.

AN AMERICAN WORKING IN MEXICO

2010-06-04T21:27:00.001-06:00

From the other side of the fence...
Received the following from Tom O'Malley, who was a Director with S.W.
BELL in Mexico City :

Experience of an American in Mexico

"I spent five years working in Mexico . I worked under a tourist Visa for three months and could legally renew it for three more months. After that you were working illegally. I was technically illegal for three weeks waiting on the FM3 approval.

"During that six months our Mexican and U.S. attorneys were working to secure a permanent work visa called a 'FM3'. It was in addition to my U.S. passport that I had to show each time I entered and left the country. Barbara's was the same, except hers did not permit her to work.

"To apply for the FM3, I needed to submit the following notarized originals (not copies):

1. Birth certificate for Barbara and me.
2. Marriage certificate.
3. High school transcripts and proof of graduation.
4. College transcripts for every college I attended and proof of graduation.
5. Two letters of recommendation from supervisors I had worked for at least one year.
6. A letter from the St. Louis Chief of Police indicating that I had no arrest record in the U.S. and no outstanding warrants and, was "a citizen in good standing".
7. "Finally, I had to write a letter about myself that clearly stated why there was no Mexican citizen with my skills and why my skills were important to Mexico . We called it our 'I am the greatest person on Earth' letter. It was fun to write."

"All of the above were in English that had to be translated into Spanish and be certified as legal translations, and our signatures notarized. It produced a folder about 1.5 inches thick with English on the left side & Spanish on the right."

"Once they were completed Barbara and I spent about five hours, accompanied by a Mexican attorney, touring Mexican government office locations and being photographed and fingerprinted at least three times at each location, and we remember at least four locations where we were instructed on Mexican tax, labor, housing, and criminal law and that we were required to obey their laws or face the consequences. We could not protest any of the government's actions or we would be committing a felony. We paid out four thousand dollars in fees and bribes to complete the process. When this was done we could legally bring in our household goods that were held by U.S. Customs in Laredo , Texas . This meant we had rented furniture in Mexico while awaiting our goods. There were extensive fees involved here that the company paid."

"We could not buy a home and were required to rent at very high rates and under contract and compliance with Mexican law."

"We were required to get a Mexican driver's license. This was an amazing process. The company arranged for the licensing agency to come to our headquarters location with their photography and fingerprint equipment and the laminating machine. We showed our U.S. license, were photographed and fingerprinted again and issued the license instantly after paying out a six dollar fee. We did not take a written or driving test and never received instructions on the rules of the road. Our only instruction was to never give a policeman your license if stopped and asked. We were instructed to hold it against the inside window away from his grasp. If he got his hands on it you would have to pay ransom to get it back. "

"We then had to pay and file Mexican income tax annually using the number of our FM3 as our ID number. The company's Mexican accountants did this for us and we just signed what they prepared. It was about twenty legal size pages annually."

"The FM3 was good for three years and renewable for two more after paying more fees."

"Leaving the country meant turning in the FM3 and certifying we were leaving no debts behind and no outstanding legal affairs (warrants, tickets or liens) before our household goods were released to customs."

"It was a real adventure and if any of our Senators or Congressmen went through it once they would have a different attitude toward Mexico ."

"The Mexican government uses its vast military and police forces to keep its citizens intimidated and compliant. They never protest at their capitol or government offices, but do protest daily in front of the United States Embassy. The U.S. Embassy looks like a strongly reinforced fortress and during most protests the Mexican military surrounds the block with their men standing shoulder to shoulder in full riot gear to protect the Embassy. These protests are never shown on U.S. or Mexican TV. There is a large public park across the street where they do their protesting. Anything can cause a protest such as proposed law changes in California or Texas ."

Please feel free to share this with everyone who thinks we are being hard on the illegals.

U3-X Personal Mobility Prototype

2010-06-03T16:35:00.002-06:00

First off, this is really cool.
My second thought was that us overfed Americans would need an industrial strength version capable of withstanding several hundred pounds.
Round that off with a third thought: do we really need to sit more than we already do?

Personally, I'd love it for an office chair.

Arizona Cartoons

2010-05-31T09:41:00.002-06:00

This about sums it up:
A. Democrats promote fascism (Fascists take over private industry, like banks, healthcare, and automaking).
B. U.S. Citizens oppose and threaten to vote them out of office.
C. Democrats bring in hoards of illegal aliens who live in squalid poverty--because of the conditions the Democrats have created for them-- under the condition that these illegals vote Democrat.
D. The legal Citizens are now out-voted by illegal aliens who have no interest in making America better.
E. The Democrats now accuse Republicans of ruining America because a couple of bankers broke the law, were caught, and punished.

What?!? You've been screwed?!?

2010-05-22T21:11:00.000-06:00

2010-05-21T21:55:00.001-06:00

Wasn't so crazy after all...

2010-05-03T18:06:00.001-06:00

Popular culture is worthless in reason.

Benefits of Immigration Law

2010-05-03T17:52:00.001-06:00

Real Immigrants

2010-05-03T17:51:00.001-06:00

ORANGE COUNTY ( CALIFORNIA ) NEWSPAPER-New Immigrants This is a very good letter to the editor. This woman made some good points.. For some reason, people have difficulty structuring their arguments when arguing against supporting the currently proposed immigration revisions. This lady made the argument pretty simple. NOT printed in the Orange County Paper.

Newspapers simply won't publish letters to the editor which they either deem politically incorrect (read below) or which does not agree with the philosophy they're pushing on the public. This woman wrote a great letter to the editor that should have been published; but, with your help it will get published via cyberspace!

From: "David LaBonte" My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of the OC Register which, of course, was not printed.. So, I decided to "print" it myself by sending it out on the Internet. Pass it along if you feel so inclined. Written in response to a series of letters to the editor in the Orange County Register:

Dear Editor: So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren't being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.

They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.

Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out. My father fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from Germany , Italy , France and Japan . None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan . They were defending the United States of America as one people.

When we liberated France , no one in those villages were looking for the French-American or the German American or the Irish American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.

And here we are with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I'm sorry, that's not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.

And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty , it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn't start talking about dismantling the United States just yet..

(signed) Rosemary LaBonte

I will put a garage in the cheek of a caterpillar's bazooka

2010-04-10T07:44:00.000-06:00

Dead on Right.
And you "True Believers" who accuse Bush of spreading evil around the globe, giving po' B.O. the divine right of kings to sweep aside all this corruption; just remember that it was the NeoCons who opposed Bush then. Call us Teabaggers, NeoCons, or whatever, we are conservatives who stand for things that protect hate spewing Liberals from themselves. You are this country's burden and you'd better pray that someone is there to clean up YOUR socialistic engineering mess. Again.

Ya' picked a fine time to lead US, Barak

2010-03-27T21:31:00.001-06:00

Extremeists!

2010-03-27T06:55:00.000-06:00

Yes, you are a hateful, racist, extremist, do-do head.
Submit to the erudite elite and obey.

Freakin' Awesome!

2010-03-15T13:06:00.000-06:00

Punching Barbara Boxer right in the face is just the beginning.
This woman is the real thing.

Sick of Educational Excuses?

2010-03-09T16:45:00.000-07:00

Yeah, me too.

Photography

2010-03-04T14:33:00.000-07:00

Kind of long, but worth the watch. All done in 3D.

Visually inspiring. Beautifully done.

Very Accurate

2010-03-03T17:03:00.001-07:00

If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn`t buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn`t eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
(Of course this only applies to Christian Religions.)

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for
it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.

If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends because it's so true it's not funny.
A liberal will delete it because he's "offended".

My Waffle Wedded Wife...

2010-02-28T10:55:00.000-07:00

Friday Fun: Procras.... tination

2010-02-19T19:49:00.001-07:00

Procrastination from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

The Video that Cost Pat His Job

2010-02-19T06:22:00.000-07:00

As B.O. and his cronies surround themselves with their communist, socialist, fascist, progressive, liberal, bigot, activist, community-organizer, democrat, green, friends, most of the sheeple in the US are wondering who is going to get booted from Biggest Loser this week.

Pat Caddell gets fired over this video. What is amazing is that all these two are saying are factual, and moreover, truthful. If we have politicians who are this married to the Big Lie, and citizens who have a bumper-sticker mentality of their country, how much time does this Republic have left?

Andrew Klavan Presents: President Me! The Musical

2010-02-13T08:53:00.000-07:00

32 Years Later . . . . .

2010-02-03T21:56:00.001-07:00

Does anybody out there have any memory Of the reason given for the establishment Of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY During the Carter Administration?

We've spent several hundred billion dollars In support of an agency the reason for which not one person who reads This can remember. Ready?
It was very simple at the time everybody thought it very appropriate... The 'Department of Energy' Was instituted on 8-04-1977

TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.

Hey, pretty efficient, huh?

AND NOW IT'S 2009, 32 YEARS LATER ...

AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR

IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES

AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!

Ah, yes, good old bureaucracy and NOW we are going to turn The Banking System, Health Care & The Auto Industry over to government ALL IN THE NAME OF CHANGE?

Obama's Show and Teleprompter Presentation

2010-01-28T07:08:00.001-07:00

You have got to be joking.
Funny. Sad. Completely narcissistic.

President Barack Obama speaks to 6th graders in Virginia Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, using teleprompters.

Obama Hussein and the Seven Dorks

2010-01-28T07:06:00.000-07:00

Sunday Thoughts

2010-01-24T07:08:00.000-07:00

For some reason the words to the hymn, "Faith of Our Fathers" aka "The Recessional" by Kipling, have always generated a combination of melancholy, joy and hope; what Neil Maxwell would call, "Sweet Sorrow". I first came aware of this poem when reading, "Beware of Pride" by President Ezra Taft Benson.

To many, this poem seemed to foretell the fate of Brittan as less and less people seem to remember their God. Of course, this same warning was repeated throughout the Book of Mormon so explicitly that it can be considered a major underlying theme.

Regardless of where you kneel on whatever day you choose, the important thing is that the moral conduct generated by a loving God be placed firmly in your heart.

Recessional
June 22, 1897
Rudyard Kipling. b. 1865

GOD of our fathers, known of old—
Lord of our far-flung battle-line—
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget!

The tumult and the shouting dies—
The captains and the kings depart—
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget!

Far-call'd our navies melt away—
On dune and headland sinks the fire—
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget!

If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe—
Such boasting as the Gentiles use
Or lesser breeds without the Law—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget!

For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard—
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding calls not Thee to guard—
For frantic boast and foolish word,
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!

Liberal Judge Hall of Shame

2010-01-23T20:52:00.000-07:00

Judge Allows Child Molester to Live With Four-Year-Old Cousin

Caturday!

2010-01-23T18:42:00.000-07:00

Okay, this is just plain sick.
We had a cat.
ONCE
It would eat the carpet strings that came from 'Stupid' clawing at it all day.
One day we saw 'Stupid' tearing through the house with a turd on a string chasing him.

With that in mind..

The 'Crotch' Salute

2010-01-22T19:12:00.001-07:00

Fort Hood Ceremony
The following is considered a hoax. But, how does that explain that everyone is either saluting or has their hand over their heart, EXCEPT for the leader of America?
Our liberal quisling friends are quick to point out that B.O. had blue tie the day in question.
That's nice. Where are the pictures of him saluting then?

Evasion of the main point is called, 'begging the question'. In their case I'd call it buggering.

POTUSA (President of the United States of America ) at Ft. Hood , Texas on Nov. 11, 2009 ... "Honoring" the 13 dead. Obama refuses to salute, come to attention, or even place his hand on his heart as the honor guard passes at the Memorial Service for those killed by a fellow Muslim terrorist at Fort Hood!

FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE

2010-01-21T09:08:00.001-07:00

1. "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."~Thomas Jefferson

2. "Those who trade liberty for security have neither." ~ John Adams

3. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

4. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

5. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.

6. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.

7. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.

8. Know guns, know peace, know safety.

No guns, no peace, no safety.

9. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.

10. Assault is a behavior, not a device.

11. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.

13. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others..

14. What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you NOT understand?

15. Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.

16. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.

17. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

America’s New Year's Unemployment Hangover

2010-01-19T06:48:00.000-07:00

America’s New Year's Unemployment Hangover
This chart says it all. Every episode of high unemployment was caused by big government. Since FDR tried to spend his way our of Hardings similar approach, we've lost jobs. Carter shows up as the worst in recent history only to be eclipsed by Obama in terms of depth and duration.

Let's not forget that places like California have extended unemployment and told people who have last their jobs to NOT LOOK for at least six months to a year.

What has effectively taken place is a massive understated number. Easily proven, at least one in three people who are unemployed are actually counted as being unemployed.

Most households are now relying on at least two incomes and sometimes three or four. Meanwhile our teenage population, most of whom were employed at jobs Mexicans are now doing illegally, are not working. Instead of seeing young people in their early 20's bagging your groceries or greeting you at the Cosco door, you now have old age people who should be enjoying a quiet retirement.

What the hell has happened?

The Rambo Granny of Melbourne, Australia

2010-01-18T20:38:00.001-07:00

The Rambo Granny of Melbourne , Australia
Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting ex-cons down - and shot off their testicles.
The old lady spent a week hunting those men down -- and, when she found them, she took revenge on them in her own special way, said Melbourne police investigator Evan Delp.
Then she took a taxi to the nearest police station, laid the gun on the sergeant's desk and told him as calm as could be: 'Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God.'
Cops say convicted rapist and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost both his penis and his testicles when outraged Ava opened fire with a 9-mm pistol in the hotel room where he and former prison cell mate Stanley Thomas , 29, were holed up.
The wrinkled avenger also blew Thomas ' testicles to kingdom come, but doctors managed to save his mangled penis, police said.. 'The one guy, Thomas , didn't lose his manhood, 'but the doctor I talked to said he won't be using it the way he used to,'
Detective Delp told reporters. 'Both men are still in pretty bad shape, 'but I think they're just happy to be alive after what they've been through.'
The Rambo Granny swung into action August 21 after her granddaughter Debbie was carjacked and raped in broad daylight by two knife-wielding creeps in a section of town bordering on skid row.
'When I saw the look on my Debbie's face that night in the hospital, 'I decided I was going to go out and get those bastards myself, ''cause I figured the Law would go easy on them,' recalled the retired library worker... 'And I wasn't scared of them, either - because I've got me a gun and I've been shootin' all my life. 'And I wasn't dumb enough to turn it in when the law changed about owning one.'
So, using a police artist's sketch of the suspects and Debbie's description of the sickos, tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days prowling the wino-infested neighborhood where the crime took place till she spotted the ill-fated rapists entering their flophouse hotel... 'I knew it was them the minute I saw 'em, but I shot a picture of 'em anyway and took it back to Debbie, and she said sure as hell, it was them,' the oldster recalled....
'So I went back to that hotel and found their room and knocked on the door, 'and the minute the big one opened the door, I shot 'em right square between the legs,'right where it would really hurt 'em most, you know..
'Then I went in and shot the other one 'as he backed up pleading to me to spare him.'Then I went down to the police station and turned myself in.'
Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to deal with the vigilante granny.. 'What she did was wrong, and she broke the law, but it is difficult to throw an 81-year-old woman in prison,' Det. Delp said, 'especially when 3 million people in the city want to nominate her for Mayor..'
DEPORT HER TO AMERICA - WE NEED HER!
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Australian Gun Law Update
Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts..... From: Ed Chenel , A police officer in Australia

Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under.
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government -- a program costing Australian taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent; Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!)
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed..
There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly, while the resident is at home.
Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in 'successfully ridding Australian society of guns.' You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information.
The Australian experience speaks for itself. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.
Take note Americans, before it's too late!
Will you be one of the sheeple to turn yours in? WHY? You will need it.

Obama's Stash

2010-01-06T16:46:00.001-07:00

Dear Sirs:

"During my last night's shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with an expensive shiny gold tooth, multiple elaborate expensive tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone.. Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid.. She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer.

And our Congress expects me to pay for this woman's health care? Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. _It is a crisis of culture_ ~ a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance.. A culture that thinks _"I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me"._ Life is really not that hard. Most of us reap what we sow. Don't you agree? -- STARNER JONES, MD, Jackson , MS * *