And they used to call Ronald Regan the Teflon President because they said nothing would stick to him. WOW! He’s nothing compared to the current occupier of the Oval Office. He’s making Ronnie look like a cast iron skillet instead of a Teflon coated frying pan.
Just take a look around. Gas prices through the roof, but does Obiwan get any of the blame. Of course not! He’s even taken a page from a Todd Snider song where he insightfully quips, “cause if you’re the one pointing the finger, no one looks at you!” Our ‘Let’s Make Jimmy Carter Look Like Not Such A Bad President After All’ President has called for an investigation of the Oil Companies and the speculators. Thus hoping that no one will shine a light into the black hole that is our current administration.
His EPA will not issue air quality permits to Shell Oil so they can drill off shore in Alaska. He has issued a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (of course that hasn’t kept China or Cuba from drilling there). They throw up every roadblock they can think of to obstruct oil development in the oil sands and oil shale in the western US. All of which would increase the supply and reduce our dependence on foreign oil and thus reduce the speculators reasons for guessing the supply will be jeopardized and driving up the price.
And yet the compliant sycophantic mainstream media obligingly continues to focus the public’s attention on Big Bad Oil and the oil speculators. I sometimes wonder if he isn’t looking to have a government takeover of the oil industry like Hugo, Mao and Stalin before him.
Then there is the deafening silence from the Anti-War left. It seemed that we couldn’t turn on the TV when GW was president without having to listen to some screed about the terrible imperialistic Americans imposing their will on the world. Now we still are fighting in all the same places plus the non-stick one has inserted us into Libya (without congressional approval, which GW got), GITMO is alive and well, we are preparing to sanction Syria, and we don’t hear a peep nor a sound from the Anti-War leftists to say nothing of the MSM.
The country is teetering on the brink of financial ruin, thanks in large part to his disastrous fiscal policies to “stimulate” the economy (with money we have had to borrow from China). Couple this with the terrible negative effect of Obama Care, which is such a deleterious influence that they have already been forced to issue more than a thousand waivers to companies, most of which are run by Obama backers. The housing market is a mess, in large part because they won’t let the market correct itself. But do we hear anything about these, of course not, unless you look into alternate sources for your news.
This list could go on indefinitely. They seem to be working harder and faster to dismantle this once great nation than one can report on. But does the blame land anywhere near the epicenter of this $hit storm that is the Obama Presidency? Not unless you look at the real “independent” media, the internet or Fox News.
Thank heavens the public seems to be starting to realize that the media is anything BUT independent. They are merely the propaganda organ of the left. Willing accomplices in the attempt to pull the liberal wool over the predominantly conservative countries eyes.
The alarm clock is ringing, let’s see how many folks wake up and take responsibility for themselves and what happens with this country. Another chance to show you are awake and attentive is coming up in November, 2012.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Peaceful Religion My A$$!!!!!
Well I'll be damned if the religion of peace isn't at it once again!
We've all read about the horrible school shooting in Rio. The reports vary from 11 to 13 school children killed, execution style. Stood against a wall and shot in the head! Another 20+ students injured.
I can't imagine the anguish and grief the parents must be going through. No parent should ever have to bury their child, but to have to do so under these circumstances is beyond my ability to comprehend.
Now while you have certainly heard about the shooting, have you heard about the shooter's "religious" connections? Unless you are a regular visitor to the "Drudge Report" or Fox News, probably not. I speak, of course about the "peaceful" religion of islam. I do not capitalize its name on purpose. I find it to be neither a religion nor peaceful. The majority of it's practitioners may claim to not agree with the vile acts that many of their fellow believers perpetrate, but only a precious few speak out against their acts.
If islam were truly the peaceful religion they claim it to be, millions upon millions would not only speak out against these vicious animals, but they would be taking steps to prevent them from further acts. They would not only report their plots, they would work to stop them. They would rail against such violent mid-evil teachers/religious leaders as the blind cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman and Anwar al-Awlaki. They would cast them out and shun them. They should loudly and forcefully preach against such behavior, if they were as they claim, a peaceful religion.
But do we hear such condemnation? NO! We hear nothing of the sort.
It is for this reason that I do not accept islam as a religion! Until it starts forcefully advocating humane behavior between all people, no matter what their religious bent may be, islam will remain a barbaric cult in my opinion! It's "holy" sits and artifacts equivalent to Auschwitz and Nazi artifacts. It's practitioners should be given the same reverence you would give any full blown Nazi.
As long as world "leaders" continue the fiction of it being a "religion of peace" they will be de facto supporters of these mid-evil thugs!
It's time to call a spade a spade and start acting accordingly.
We've all read about the horrible school shooting in Rio. The reports vary from 11 to 13 school children killed, execution style. Stood against a wall and shot in the head! Another 20+ students injured.
I can't imagine the anguish and grief the parents must be going through. No parent should ever have to bury their child, but to have to do so under these circumstances is beyond my ability to comprehend.
Now while you have certainly heard about the shooting, have you heard about the shooter's "religious" connections? Unless you are a regular visitor to the "Drudge Report" or Fox News, probably not. I speak, of course about the "peaceful" religion of islam. I do not capitalize its name on purpose. I find it to be neither a religion nor peaceful. The majority of it's practitioners may claim to not agree with the vile acts that many of their fellow believers perpetrate, but only a precious few speak out against their acts.
If islam were truly the peaceful religion they claim it to be, millions upon millions would not only speak out against these vicious animals, but they would be taking steps to prevent them from further acts. They would not only report their plots, they would work to stop them. They would rail against such violent mid-evil teachers/religious leaders as the blind cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman and Anwar al-Awlaki. They would cast them out and shun them. They should loudly and forcefully preach against such behavior, if they were as they claim, a peaceful religion.
But do we hear such condemnation? NO! We hear nothing of the sort.
It is for this reason that I do not accept islam as a religion! Until it starts forcefully advocating humane behavior between all people, no matter what their religious bent may be, islam will remain a barbaric cult in my opinion! It's "holy" sits and artifacts equivalent to Auschwitz and Nazi artifacts. It's practitioners should be given the same reverence you would give any full blown Nazi.
As long as world "leaders" continue the fiction of it being a "religion of peace" they will be de facto supporters of these mid-evil thugs!
It's time to call a spade a spade and start acting accordingly.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Is The United States Of America Still A Sovereign Nation?
Is the United States of America still a sovereign state? I know on the surface this seems to be a silly question. But let me ask you to take a minute to think about this question. Before you start though I’d like you to consider a couple of things:
First, here’s what Wikipedia has to say about “sovereign states”:
The United Nations currently only requires that a sovereign state has an effective and independent government within a defined territory. According to current international law norms, states are only required to have an effective and independent system of government pursuant to a community within a defined territory.
For centuries past, the idea that a state could be sovereign was always connected to its ability to guarantee the best interests of its own citizens. Thus, if a state could not act in the best interests of its own citizens, it could not be thought of as a “sovereign” state. [emphasis added]
Next, what then is providing for the best interests of its citizens? As a Libertarian, I’d have to say (and you’ve heard me say this before) the job of government is to protect its citizens’ life, property and fortune from seizure by force or fraud. If a government does this, they’ve done a good days work and can cease any further actions. This would then allow the citizens to develop their own methods for meeting any other perceived needs.
Having staked out these two points, I ask you again, is the United States of America still a sovereign state?
…..
That’s enough time.
I would have to say that the answer is “NO”. Any sovereign nation, including the under developed ones, protects their citizens from extra-territorial incursions by non-citizens who would then take from the citizens. The Greeks defended their citizens from the Persians, the Romans protected their citizens from the Goths, the Brits defended their citizens from the Nazis, etc., etc. Yet our government, whether run by Democrats or Republicans, has refused to secure our borders and has allowed a full scale invasion by illegals. This invasion has cost many lives which have been taken through violent crimes and/or acts such as drunk driving. It has enabled these illegals to take our citizens property through criminal force. It has allowed our citizens fortunes to be taken due to the diminution of property values because of crime perpetrated by illegals.
By failing to secure our borders, the government is also putting the citizenry at risk from attack by the islamic radicals who wish to destroy us. They have left the door open for easy access by enemy combatants. They, like the drug cartels, have nearly unimpeded access to our country. All because our “government” will not secure the border.
Why neither side will secure the border is open to debate. Maybe it’s because some businesses want access to cheap labor. Maybe it’s because some political parties want to increase a base that will be beholding to them. Maybe it’s something else altogether. From where I stand, it doesn’t make any difference.
In my opinion, our government is failing the citizenry of this country in the most basic of ways. It’s failing to protect our lives, property and fortune. It’s time we as citizens stop being lazy and investigate those who seek to become part of our state and federal
governments and vote only for those who truly wish to make us a sovereign nation once again.
Don’t listen to what they say they will do, political advertisements are NOT your friend! Look at what they have done in the past. The best predictor of future behavior is past performance.
Take responsibility for yourself! Get educated! Vote!
First, here’s what Wikipedia has to say about “sovereign states”:
The United Nations currently only requires that a sovereign state has an effective and independent government within a defined territory. According to current international law norms, states are only required to have an effective and independent system of government pursuant to a community within a defined territory.
For centuries past, the idea that a state could be sovereign was always connected to its ability to guarantee the best interests of its own citizens. Thus, if a state could not act in the best interests of its own citizens, it could not be thought of as a “sovereign” state. [emphasis added]
Next, what then is providing for the best interests of its citizens? As a Libertarian, I’d have to say (and you’ve heard me say this before) the job of government is to protect its citizens’ life, property and fortune from seizure by force or fraud. If a government does this, they’ve done a good days work and can cease any further actions. This would then allow the citizens to develop their own methods for meeting any other perceived needs.
Having staked out these two points, I ask you again, is the United States of America still a sovereign state?
…..
That’s enough time.
I would have to say that the answer is “NO”. Any sovereign nation, including the under developed ones, protects their citizens from extra-territorial incursions by non-citizens who would then take from the citizens. The Greeks defended their citizens from the Persians, the Romans protected their citizens from the Goths, the Brits defended their citizens from the Nazis, etc., etc. Yet our government, whether run by Democrats or Republicans, has refused to secure our borders and has allowed a full scale invasion by illegals. This invasion has cost many lives which have been taken through violent crimes and/or acts such as drunk driving. It has enabled these illegals to take our citizens property through criminal force. It has allowed our citizens fortunes to be taken due to the diminution of property values because of crime perpetrated by illegals.
By failing to secure our borders, the government is also putting the citizenry at risk from attack by the islamic radicals who wish to destroy us. They have left the door open for easy access by enemy combatants. They, like the drug cartels, have nearly unimpeded access to our country. All because our “government” will not secure the border.
Why neither side will secure the border is open to debate. Maybe it’s because some businesses want access to cheap labor. Maybe it’s because some political parties want to increase a base that will be beholding to them. Maybe it’s something else altogether. From where I stand, it doesn’t make any difference.
In my opinion, our government is failing the citizenry of this country in the most basic of ways. It’s failing to protect our lives, property and fortune. It’s time we as citizens stop being lazy and investigate those who seek to become part of our state and federal
governments and vote only for those who truly wish to make us a sovereign nation once again.
Don’t listen to what they say they will do, political advertisements are NOT your friend! Look at what they have done in the past. The best predictor of future behavior is past performance.
Take responsibility for yourself! Get educated! Vote!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Don't Blame The Snake
Well, it’s started. Radical Islamists are starting the inevitable creep many of us believed would happen in Egypt, and will surely follow in all of these other countries currently experiencing Islamic unrest. Just this week the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has advocated “modesty police” (www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=215050). You remember those humanitarian groups. I believe it was a Saudi Arabian variant of the modesty police that wouldn’t let the young girls flee a burning dorm building because they were not fully covered, and thus were forced to burn to death.
This is all taking place after we supported the protests calling for Mubarak to leave, when we had no idea who was behind the uprising. Just like we are now doing in Libya. We’re lending support to rebels who are thoroughly infected with, if not completely organized and directed by, Islamic radicals.
Yes I know Mubarak was as crooked as a dog’s hind leg, but we were able to work with him to thwart groups like al-qaeda and the muslim brotherhood. Plus he also signed and kept a peace treaty with our only true friends in the middle east, Israel. Moammar Gadhafi is an evil SOB who has been a thorn in our side for decades, but we had, prior to our current administration taking office, cowed him into giving up his nuclear ambitions and sort of minding his own business. Now we’ve got Anwar Al-Awlaki crowing about the upsurge in Islamic fighters in Egypt and Libya. (You all remember Al-Awlaki, he’s the guy who had 9-11 guys in his mosque in the DC area. He had a relationship with the Ft. Hood shooter. He had some relationship to the Christmas Day bvd bomber.) You know that if Al-Awlaki is happy about what’s going on, it’s not in our best interest.
And yet, there we are, continuing to insert ourselves on the wrong side of these uprisings. (The truth be told, in many of these situations, there is NO right side to be on. We should just sit on our hands until things are sorted out, then go in and deal with the victor in whatever way is appropriate.)
But no, we get involved without knowing what is really involved and we get situations like what is going on in Egypt. Where one muslim brotherhood weird beard told the concerned Christian community “If the Christians want safety they should submit to the rule of God and be confident that the Islamic sharia will protect them.” Now if I was a Christian in Egypt I’d be shaking in my sandals at the thought of counting on sharia to protect me. I believe we all remember how some Islamic radicals interpreted sharia when it came to how Daniel Pearl should be treated. Why should they expect any better treatment?
As a matter of fact, Nagib Gibrail, a Coptic Christian attorney says “There are areas in Egypt where Christian girls can’t walk outside after 8:00 in the evening for fear of being kidnapped.”
WE, and by we I mean our current ill prepared and incompetent president and his far left administration, are partially to blame for this happening.
Remember folks, actions have consequences. When you vote for an inexperienced leader who showed he had radical leftist ties and NO experience in anything other than corrupt Chicago and Illinois politics, don’t blame him for what he does. It’s YOUR fault! To blame our current president for doing what he’s done is like taking a snake to bed with you and then blaming him for biting you. He’s just doing what he does. The signs were there. You should have paid better attention.
The only possible saving grace is there’s another election in 1 ½ years. You can take steps to correct your, or your neighbor’s error. As the Democrats say, “Vote early and vote often!”
This is all taking place after we supported the protests calling for Mubarak to leave, when we had no idea who was behind the uprising. Just like we are now doing in Libya. We’re lending support to rebels who are thoroughly infected with, if not completely organized and directed by, Islamic radicals.
Yes I know Mubarak was as crooked as a dog’s hind leg, but we were able to work with him to thwart groups like al-qaeda and the muslim brotherhood. Plus he also signed and kept a peace treaty with our only true friends in the middle east, Israel. Moammar Gadhafi is an evil SOB who has been a thorn in our side for decades, but we had, prior to our current administration taking office, cowed him into giving up his nuclear ambitions and sort of minding his own business. Now we’ve got Anwar Al-Awlaki crowing about the upsurge in Islamic fighters in Egypt and Libya. (You all remember Al-Awlaki, he’s the guy who had 9-11 guys in his mosque in the DC area. He had a relationship with the Ft. Hood shooter. He had some relationship to the Christmas Day bvd bomber.) You know that if Al-Awlaki is happy about what’s going on, it’s not in our best interest.
And yet, there we are, continuing to insert ourselves on the wrong side of these uprisings. (The truth be told, in many of these situations, there is NO right side to be on. We should just sit on our hands until things are sorted out, then go in and deal with the victor in whatever way is appropriate.)
But no, we get involved without knowing what is really involved and we get situations like what is going on in Egypt. Where one muslim brotherhood weird beard told the concerned Christian community “If the Christians want safety they should submit to the rule of God and be confident that the Islamic sharia will protect them.” Now if I was a Christian in Egypt I’d be shaking in my sandals at the thought of counting on sharia to protect me. I believe we all remember how some Islamic radicals interpreted sharia when it came to how Daniel Pearl should be treated. Why should they expect any better treatment?
As a matter of fact, Nagib Gibrail, a Coptic Christian attorney says “There are areas in Egypt where Christian girls can’t walk outside after 8:00 in the evening for fear of being kidnapped.”
WE, and by we I mean our current ill prepared and incompetent president and his far left administration, are partially to blame for this happening.
Remember folks, actions have consequences. When you vote for an inexperienced leader who showed he had radical leftist ties and NO experience in anything other than corrupt Chicago and Illinois politics, don’t blame him for what he does. It’s YOUR fault! To blame our current president for doing what he’s done is like taking a snake to bed with you and then blaming him for biting you. He’s just doing what he does. The signs were there. You should have paid better attention.
The only possible saving grace is there’s another election in 1 ½ years. You can take steps to correct your, or your neighbor’s error. As the Democrats say, “Vote early and vote often!”
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Intrusive Feds Are Increasing Consumer Food Costs ..... Again
The Feds are at it again. New regulations will require chain fast food restaurants, bakeries, grocery stores, coffee shops, etc. to list the calories in their offerings. The Nanny State is “looking out for” us. I guess they feel that we are not capable of making any decisions without their help.
They seem to feel that if we just knew how many calories were in that cheeseburger we would choose to eat a salad instead. So they will force all of these various retailers to list the calories of their various offerings. Of course these listings don’t just happen. Someone has to calculate the calories of all these various things then signs have to be designed and printed and put up. None of these things happen for free. Each and every one of them costs money. And guess what. These companies will pass the cost on to you. So when you have to pay that extra nickel for your french fries, you can thank your Obama led pack of do-gooders. Ninety percent of which have never had anything to do with actually running a business, and thus don’t understand that when they make their various intrusive rulings that they are impacting the end users as much as the “evil” companies they are trying to punish.
They also seem to think that giving us this knowledge will change our behavior, as if we didn’t realize that a salad was less likely to make us fat than a cheeseburger and fries. How effing STUPID can these meddling government a$$holes be? Of course we knew the cheeseburger was less healthy than the salad! WE DIDN’T CARE! Your forcing the stores to put signs on them is going to do nothing but increase the cost to us and create more useless government jobs for more people to go out and check to make sure that companies are following these overbearing and intrusive rules.
Attention Big Government: Get Out Of My Personal LIfe, Get Out Of My Wallet, And Do What A Government Should Be Doing!
Protect My Life, My Property And My Wealth From Being Taken From Me
By Force Or Fraud!
That’s pretty much it for what the government should be doing. It is not their place to socially engineer what happens in the society.
As adults we should make our own decisions and live with the consequences of our actions. If I make a stupid decision, eat to much, get fat and die of a heart attack, to bad, so sad for me. The government need not be involved. If I make good decisions and earn lots of money, good for me, I get to enjoy the fruits of my good decision making. The government need not be involved. PERIOD END!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Dateline Treynor, IA…..WTF????
Come on Treynor, you’re better than this. I grew up with Treynor residents as friends and I hate to see you drawing national attention for something soooo stupid. I mean really, in this day and age, white supremacists are the best you could do for a make believe terrorist group to role play against? When was the last time white supremacists were in the news for a violent crime?
Now are there any other groups that pop to mind before you think of white supremacists? Oh, yeah, there are those Islamic fellows aren’t there. They’ve been involved in a few things recently haven’t they? Let’s recount just a few:
- 9/11
- The DC sniper
- The Arkansas recruiting station shooting
- The Fort Hood shooting
- The attempted bombing of Times Square
- The attempted bombing of NY subways
These are just to name a few that come to the top of my head, and yet you choose to make white supremacists the centerpiece of your terror response exercise?
This is one more case of political correctness run amok. It’s like our government’s unwillingness to call our fight a war on Islamic radicalism, and calling it a war on “terror”. That makes as much sense as saying we are going to have a war on tanks, or a war on flanking actions.
Terrorism is a tactic. A way of fighting. It makes NO sense to have a war on a tactic. We are not at war against a tactic. We are at war with radical islam which employees this tactic, but our government has been so kowtowed by the liberals that they don’t have enough gumption to even properly name our enemy. Radical islam!
How in the hell can we expect to defeat our enemy if we can’t even bring ourselves to properly name them?
The Treynor planners were worried about offending the muslims when they chose to make white supremacists the bad guys, figuring that white guys are the one group that you can still go ahead and defame without fear of retribution. Well I say “Shame On You!” exercise planners. You and all the others like you are the reason that America has become a laughing stock around the world.
It’s time we stop pussyfooting around and start calling a spade a spade and acting accordingly. When the mafia was a big problem, we looked at the Italian community because that’s where they were. When we have problems with biker gangs we investigate biker gang gathering places. We don’t stop every person riding a motorcycle because we are worried about offending, or looking like we are “profiling”.
What a crock! Profiling is what you do when you are trying to catch bad guys. Hell, profiling is what you do when you are searching for any type of person. When you want to hire a truck driver you don’t advertise on Public Radio, you advertise on a Country radio station. Because that’s what a lot of truck drivers listen to.
So come on Treynor, quite trying to be politically correct and use a more believable group of bad guys for your scenario. Make it Islamic Terrorists. Make it South American Narco-Terrorists. Make it something believable.
The sooner we stop worrying about bruising some group’s delicate feelings and start correctly naming our problems, the sooner we will be able to solve them.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Jim Jones vs islam
They keep telling us islam is a religion of peace, and yet we keep reading headlines like the one I read this morning. Israeli family murdered in their sleep, mother, father and three children, one of which was a baby, stabbed to death. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/us-palestinians-israel-violence-idUSTRE72B0B920110312 Once the news was made public, thousands of palestinians poured into the streets to celebrate.
Thousands of people celebrating the murder of 5 people in their sleep! http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4041106,00.html
These are not the acts of civilized people. It’s bad enough that a so called religion could produce individuals who could, through it’s rhetoric, justify the murder of five people in their sleep. But it also produced thousands of people who saw such a cowardly and dastardly deed as worthy of public celebration!
In no other belief system calling itself a religion currently practiced in the world today could I find language justifying the wanton murder of others. Every other belief system calling itself a religion that has a million of more adherents, advocates for a morally higher standard of behavior from its followers. Peace, understanding, the betterment of the world and the condition of those living in it. Generally, these are the trademarks of a modern religion.
Islam does not meet this standard. A significant portion of its adherents advocate murder of those who do not believe as they do. Not only do they advocate murder for non believers, they also advocate it as a course of action for their own who do not strictly follow all of their tenants. Such as stoning a woman to death who has been brutally raped by one of their own “religious” faithful.
This is not a religion in my book. This is a system of subjugation. A means of allowing the males of a certain group to justify doing what ever they want to those who oppose them. A system for keeping their women as chattel. A system equivalent to medieval serfdom where the lord of the land could do what ever he choose to those under him and could kill any who opposed him without fear of retribution from the system itself. The difference being that it only seems to take a pair of testicles to be a lord in this system.
If islam wants to be considered a legitimate religion by the rest of the world, all these practitioners I keep hearing about who are supposedly peaceful will have to stand up and forcefully call “bullshit” on the radicals in their midst. They will have to ostracize them. They will have to point them out and help stamp them out.
Until that day happens, islam is worse than Jim Jones to me. At least he only killed his own followers.
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