American Icon John Wayne was once quoted saying, "Life is tough-it's even tougher when you're stupid." Now I would know this to be true because some of the stupidest things I've done over time have most definitely made my life tougher. And if there is someone out there that cannot testify to this at some point in their life....well then, I'd either have to bless you or call you a damn liar! Yes?
Compiled here is a very short list of stupid, (thankfully I don't fall into any of these), but aside from my own personal list, I know that I've seen lots of stupid out there myself. Mostly I just walk away shaking my head in dismay, wondering just how in the world this person, or persons survive on a daily basis. Quoting Forrest Gump's "Stupid is as stupid does" I have to agree completely. But there are differences and there are variables. For instance....one can be stupid because they just don't care, or don't know any better, or are just too lazy to learn any better and don't want to....the latter of those being the one that gets under my skin the most. Or....well, there's this kind of stupid.
ONE: Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. 'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter. 'You don't?' I replied. 'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply. 'So I can't order half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?' 'That's right.' So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.
TWO: I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those 'dividers' that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the 'divider', looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?' I said to her 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.' She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue to what had just happened.
THREE: A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM 'thingy.'
FOUR: I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. 'Do you need some help?' I asked. She replied, 'I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?' 'Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked. 'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk.'
FIVE: Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?' 'Just use copier machine paper,' the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five 'blank' copies.
SIX: I was in a car dealership a while ago, when a large motor home was towed into the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of repair and the whole thing generally looked like an extra in 'Twister.' I asked the manager what had happened. He told me that the driver had set the 'cruise control' and then went in the back to make a sandwich.
SEVEN: My neighbor works in the operations department in the central office of a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they have problems with their computers. One night he got a call from a woman in one of the branch banks who had this question: 'I've got smoke coming from the back of my terminal. Do you guys have a fire downtown?'
EIGHT: Police in Radnor, PA.. interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message 'He's lying' was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the 'lie detector' was working, the suspect confessed.
NINE: A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid was eating ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and it should be fine. The mother says: I just gave him some ant killer.....? Dispatcher: Rush him in to emergency room!
Well now that you've had a good laugh while shaking your head in disbelief, and unlike me aren't too embarrassed to share any of your own stupids'....then by all means please do. Otherwise pass along some of the stupids' you may have encountered in this oh-so-tough world.
As most of you know I am not a President Bush fan, nor have I ever been, but this is not about Bush, it is about us, as Americans, and it seems to hit the mark. 'The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some Poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true given the source, right?
The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the President. In essence 2/3 of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change. So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, 'What are we so unhappy about?''
A.. Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 Days a week?
B.. Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter?
C.. Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job?
D. Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?
E.. Maybe it is the ability to drive our cars and trucks from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state?
F.. Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter?
G.. I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough either.
H. Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital.
I.. Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home.
J.. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames, thus saving you, your family, and your belongings.
K.. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes, an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss.
L.. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90% of teenagers own cell phones and computers.
M.. How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world?
Maybe that is what has 67% of you folks unhappy.
Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S. , yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have, and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.
I know, I know. What about the president who took us into war and has no plan to get us out? The president who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this the same president who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The president that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks? The commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me?
Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad? Think about it......are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain OR is it because the 'Media' told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful behind every day. Make no mistake about it.
The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go. They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an 'other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable'' discharge after a few days in the brig.
So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans?
Say what you want but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds it leads and they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells, and when criticized, try to defend their actions by 'justifying' them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like OJ. Simpson to write a book about how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way..... Insane!
Turn off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then start being grateful for all we have as country There is exponentially more good than bad. We are among the most blessed people on Earth and should thank God several times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative.' 'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, 'Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'
This is so amazing. Just when I thought that I knew something....I find that I don't. This link comes from a dear family friend and it's about The Great Escape that happened in WWII. You may remember the Steve McQueen movie The Great Escape.....well, like me. you may not have known this.
As you go through the animation click on the numbers for the information.....I guarantee you'll love this!!
Yes....he's a happy camper. And let me be the first conservative here at EFX to congratulate Barack Obama on his Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States of America. Although his opponent Hillary Clinton has yet to concede, and the dynasty appears to be on the way out, it would make sense for Obama to soak up this victory.
But Obama has many hurdles to jump if he plans on going all the way. Yesterday he gave a speech at Aipac, a Jewish and pro-Israel lobbiest group and was then followed by Hillary Clinton. Yes Obama's speech was quite eloquent and indeed quite presidential sounding, all-in-all impressive. However....I might call it the pacification speech. Just a few weeks ago he didn't sound this way, nor did he talk this way. Yes, yesterday he talked real tough....he must pacify if he's to move forward, and he must appeal to the Jewish vote....many of whom don't really care for him. I might add that he said nothing different from any other presidential hopeful when addressing the Jewish nation. For the past 60 years we've promised to maintain our close relationship, and for the past 60 years we've kept that promise. What's new with anything you said yesterday Barack?
Just a few weeks ago he minimized the threat that Iran poses to us and the world...today he called Iran a "grave threat." And he made it clear, at least to the group he was in front of today, that he would use real tough diplomacy when dealing with Iran and would not take military action off the table. We heard nothing about this just a few weeks ago. What changed? Was it to pacify?
Which is it Barack? God Bless the young man...he's come from obscurity to the nomination, huge steps for a young guy that has basically no experience. Big talk for a guy that doesn't seem to have a grasp on the realities of the world we live in today. I can't figure out which bubble it is that he lives in. I say pacification because now that he has all but won this nomination, he must, above all else try to appeal to everyone, and the "all-of-a-sudden" tough rhetoric, especially when aligning with the Jewish nation of Israel, and the conservatives that understand the need for a strong military, well, he's got to appeal to us and he's liable to say what he thinks is necessary to make us like him more and believe that he's capable of handling these tough issues. I'm convinced that'll all change should he become president.
If you were to get a transcript of his speech at Aipac, you'd find that he did not talk this way just a few days ago. He doesn't want any pre-conditions in any talks with Iran, Bush already said that. He wants to set the rules....haven't we already tried that? He wants to circumvent the United Nations, that's funny, didn't Bush go to the UN time and again, (umm, 19 times no less), yet to no avail? Gee....I thought that liberal Democrats thought the world of the UN and wanted them to take charge in matters of foreign diplomacy, or at least be involved. Obama now says that we shouldn't let our "European" friends shoulder the burden, or rather, "farm out" the responsibility of dealing with Iran and the likes...that we should take charge. When Bush tried it the Democrats went ballistic saying that we're not being all inclusive, that we're being the world police, we need to include our friends. We've tried; why, or how, could Obama do differently. Oh...I know, because he's a Democrat and that automatically makes it different.
Finally where all this is concerned. Our gas prices are so high right now and just getting higher. The blame right now lays squarely on the shoulders of our Democratic controlled Congress. Every step of the way they have blocked legislation that would allow us to explore for oil off of our shores and within our country. In 2000 experts told us that if we started drilling in Anwar, a province in Alaska, that by the year 2007 we'd be pumping oil to our very own stations and we'd greatly lessen our dependence on foreign oil. Environmentalist whackos and the Democratic Congress blocked it. They won't let us explore and they won't let us drill.
Environmentalist whackos and the Democratic Congress will not pass legislation letting us build oil drilling platforms off of our shores, in oil rich shales. Right now....China and India have platforms being built a mere 50 miles off of the Florida coast with slant drilling capabilities. Meaning....they can drill 8,000 feet down, and then slant the drill up to a mile and drill for oil in our own territory. Congress doesn't seem to care and Obama wants to find new sources of energy. That's great....but not an immediate solution, his notions will not alleviate our immediate needs. Bush, and the oil company's that liberals hate so bad have been searching and researching diligently for new sources of energy, but we need oil now! And we need more nuclear energy....but that's being blocked as well.
As a liberal Democrat president he will follow the lead of the Nancy Pelosi's and the Harry Reid's and the other leading liberal Dems and their influence and will not let us move forward with drilling for our own oil and get us the hell away from Saudi Arabia and the other Middle Eastern states that we now depend on for oil.
I can congratulate the man....it is indeed a big achievement. But he is not presidential material and I believe that he is a follower and not a leader. We need someone who really knows how Washington works, and we need someone who's been around the block a few times. We do not need someone who will just follow the liberal creed and pretend to be bi-partisan and then take his marching orders from this God-awful liberal Democrat controlled Congress.
We will have that with Barack Hussein Obama, a pacifier to the American people, a follower of Congress and one that will drop the safety net that now hangs over American soil.
This is a very dangerous man. If he becomes president he will effectively begin to disarm America, thereby leaving us pretty much defenseless against our enemies. Enemies that want America and American's dead. Should these enemies attain nuclear weapons they will use them against us. I think that Barack Obama is taking his cue from former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, a super liberal that openly said, and voted the same way, and that was to cut military spending and do away with that which would keep us safe....especially now in the war on terror.
Listen:
It is ignorant, it is risky, it is arrogant. Obama has it in his head that if we, America, endeavor to disarm ourselves that the rest of the world will follow suit. Get real Barack....do you honestly believe that Russia will disarm themselves? They'll just laugh at us and the smaller countries that depend on us to come to their defense will cower in fear because they too will effectively become defenseless.
Again....this is a dangerous man, and super naive as well. This also falls back to his 20 year association with Trinity United Church. He's now cut ties with the place and as he explains this in a speech, it just sounds like he's saying, "hey....I had 20 years of poor judgment, give me 4 more as your president!" His "Change We Can Believe In" is a misguided change and he should know it'll never fly. Disarming America....another poor choice from Barack Hussein Obama.
Now I very well realize that this post may piss-off some people, and if so, simply change the channel. It's about time that these things be discussed, especially in light of the recent Rev. Wright racist sermons and his ties to Barack Obama. Now we have a Professor Boyce of Syracuse University spewing his hatred and racism to his students; and now to the reat of us. And then we have the Democratic party playing the race card to the hilt. But every time something about race comes up and it involves a black person and a white person, it's a guarantee that it'll be the white guy that's the evil racist, and then you'll have the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson protesting in the streets disrupting things and calling for the white guys head.
They'll want the white fired from their job, making public apologies etc and they'll be making speeches about how this society is all messed up with racism and that white people are the provokers.....you'll never-ever hear them talk about the black or Hispanic communities involvement in racism in this country. I know that I must sound like a racist...well I'm not, in fact far I'm from it, but I am real sick of seeing whites take the blame for every little thing that upsets blacks or Hispanics or Asians or Arabs or which ever other race we have hear. Yep....I'm sick of it so that's why I'm posting this. I think it's appropriate and shouldn't be offensive, and if you find it offensive then you can certainly change the channel.
__________________________________ There are African Americans,
Mexican Americans,
Asian Americans,
Arab Americans,
Native Americans, etc.
...And then there are just -
Americans.
You pass me on the street
And sneer in my direction.
You Call me 'White boy,'
'Cracker,' 'Honkey,'
'Whitey,' 'Caveman,'
...And that's OK.
But if I call you Nigger,
Kike, Towel head,
Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey,
Beaner, Gook, or Chink,
...You call me a racist.
You say that whites commit a lot
Of violence against you,
So why are the ghettos the most
Dangerous places to live?
You have the United Negro College Fund.
You have Hispanic History Month.
You have Martin Luther King Day.
You have Asian History Month.
You have Black History Month.
You have Cesar Chavez Day.
You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.
You have Yom Hashoah.
You have Kawanza.
You have the NAACP.
Louis Riel Day
And you have BET.
If we had WET
(White Entertainment Television)
...We'd be racists.
If we had a White Pride Day
...You would call us racists.
If we had White History Month
...We'd be racists.
If we had any organization for only whites
To 'advance' OUR lives,
...We'd be racists.
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce,
A Black Chamber of Commerce,
And then we just have the plain
Chamber of Commerce.
Wonder who pays for that?
If we had a college fund that only gave
White students scholarships
...You know we'd be racists.
There are over 60 openly-proclaimed
Black-only Colleges in the US ,
Yet if there were 'White-only Colleges'
...THAT would be a racist college.
In the Million-Man March,
You believed that you were
Marching for your race and rights.
If we marched for our race and rights,
...You would call us racists.
You are proud to be black,
Brown, yellow and red,
And you're not afraid to announce it.
But when we announce our white pride
...You call us racists.!
You rob us,
Carjack us,
And shoot at us.
But, when a white police officer
Shoots a black gang member
Or beats up a black drug-dealer
Who is running from the LAW and
Posing a threat to ALL of society
...You call him a racist.
259 Spams??? What the f***? Well....I suppose that's what I get for being gone so long, but things must be done and unfortunately that can't always include blogging. But I'm glad to be back and now that means I had better start coming up with things to say.
One thing that can be talked about....and has, is the price of a gallon of gasoline. It's something that's affecting all of us and in everything we do. I don't know about what's going on in every other part of the country where gas is concerned, I do know that in my sisters part it just hit $4.01 and that just angers me. I do feel quite fortunate though because gas here has been hovering around the $3.75 area....even though some places are going to $3.89 and higher, but we have certified gougers around here since there is no regulatory state legislation to stop them! Anyway.....
For those of you who are still up in the air about which political party that you're going to vote with, and you're as mad as I am about this ridiculous gas situation....then you should know about this.
Last week, liberals in Congress voted for the equivalent of a $150 billion tax increase. They voted to make your next trip to the gas station more expensive; to make your next airplane ticket more expensive; to make heating your home more expensive -- even to make feeding your family more expensive.
How did they do it? By voting to block environmentally sound production of U.S. energy.....
Who's to blame for our high gas prices? The oil companies? The Saudis? OPEC? The answer, unfortunately, is closer to home: The "No-We-Can't" Left in Congress.
Last Thursday, with oil at $124 a barrel, liberals on the Senate Appropriations committee voted to block environmentally sound development of oil shale in Colorado.
According to the "Investors Business Daily" there are an estimated 1 trillion barrels of oil trapped in shale in the U.S. and Canada. Retrieving just a tenth of it would quadruple our current oil reserves.
But the "No-We-Can't" Left in Congress -- as they're prone to do -- said no, and Americans will pay the price. Colorado Senator Wayne Allard (R) put it best when he said: "If we are really serious about reducing pain at the pump, this is a vote that would make a difference in people's lives."
Now I don't like Saudi Arabia and I don't believe that they're our friends like George Bush wants us to believe, and I want desperately for us to be able to get away from their oil, and their control over us where oil is concerned. They have us over a "barrel", uhhh....so to speak. But last week (and to their credit) they did more than Congress has done by agreeing to increase oil output to 300,000 barrel's a day. Of course it's not a long term solution....but it's a good start, and it may have us seeing a little relief at the pumps for a while. So for you undecideds out there.....you might want to give some thought to this liberal Congress of ours.
I don't know about you folks, but some of this could really become a reality at the rate things are going right now. I mean....if you look at the United States Postal Service and their continual and ongoing raising of the price of stamps, Mexico, or at least some Mexicans desperate to re-claim California and Texas. The Senate still blocking drilling in ANWAR because of the freakin' Cariboos, and when we're all struggling with sky-high prices at the pump, and Democrats telling us that they're going to form a committee to look into the problem?
That's definitely what we need....another committee and more useless, meaningless and wasteful talk, yep, there's the solution. Look at Iran now, they're working on nukes, and we know that they're not a responsible country. Remember Chernobyl? We don't think that Iran could have the same kind of horrendous meltdown, killing thousands and laying waste to hundreds of acres of now unusable real estate? Anyway....I'm not an alarmist in real life, I just play one on TV! Actually most of this is pretty funny....scary, but funny, enjoy...
Headlines......From The Year: 2029
Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Mexifornia , formerly known as California. White minorities still trying to have English recognized as Mexifornia's third language.
Spotted Owl plague threatens northwestern United States crops and livestock.
Baby conceived naturally! Scientists stumped.
Couple petitions court to reinstate heterosexual marriage.
Iran still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 10 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.
France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica. No other country comes forward to help the beleaguered nation!
Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.
George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2036.
Postal Service raises price of first class stamp to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesdays only.
85-year $75.8 billion study: Diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.
Average weight of Americans drops to 250 lbs.
Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure for third consecutive year in Mexifornia and Florexico.
Japanese scientists have created a camera with such a fast shutter speed they now can photograph a woman with her mouth shut.
Abortion clinics now available in every High School in United States.
Senate still blocking drilling in ANWR even though gas is selling for 4532 Pesos per liter and gas stations are only open on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Massachusetts executes last remaining conservative.
Supreme Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil rights.
Average height of NBA players is now nine feet, seven inches.
New federal law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters and rolled-up newspapers must be registered by January 2030.
IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75 percent.
Florexico voters still having trouble with voting machines.
"France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica. No other country comes forward to help the beleaguered nation!"
I laughed so hard at this one! France taken over buy Jamaica?! Now that's rich....
Now I've heard of some nutty and way out there, themed restaurants before, and over time I've even been to a few....but nothing like this! I had to "small-ify" these photos else they would've been way too big to fit onto my page; but they're quite clear nevertheless:
I had to get to this picture before I could understand just how it is that they got up there...a freaking crane no less!
The chairs that they're sitting in swivel 180 degrees in order that the patrons get a commanding view of the city....at 165 feet.
Kinda reminds me of some those amusement park rides that have the big arms on them that hold a large cab full of people and it swings up to down in full circles. One I've never ridden!
Betcha didn't think it could get any better now didja.....
Un-freakin'-be-lievable! Live dinner music no less! I wonder if the piano player was hard to hear with any wind there may have been way up there??
So there you have it...if you're ever in Brussels at the "Dolce - la Hulpe Brussels Hotel and Conference Center", and you're looking for a new and unique place to eat, and of course don't have a problem with heights, then go to dinnerinthesky.com to make your reservations. However, upon closer research there are other countries with cities that have the same thing.
I've had breakfasts, lunches and dinners at 35,000 feet before in an enclosed airplane but never this high up out in the open. Something tells me I wouldn't or couldn't, and I'm not afraid of heights.
Well I've taken a bit of heat for what some are saying is me bashing Barack Hussein Obama and doing so with an animosity toward the man; which isn't so. And honestly the title says it all....why we need to know more about a man who could potentially become our next president. And what the mainstream media and the liberals don't want you to hear. I can't think of anyone I know, that's politically inclined who doesn't want to know as much about the presidential candidates as they possible can.
At any rate....I left off with just a snippet of the self-professed, admitted and non-repentant William Ayers and his long time association with Barack Obama. And as I said in part 1 I would've submitted more on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and I said that there was no need since he's been in the news and will be again...and sure enough, he's back doing interviews and spewing his ridiculous rhetoric and blaming the media for all of his current woes. But lets move on and get back to Ayers since there's a bit to cover.
For them, that makes all the difference. It’s not terror, just chickens coming home to roost. “Terrorists destroy randomly,” Ayers rationalizes with nauseating arrogance, “while our actions bore ... the precise stamp of a cut diamond. Terrorists intimidate, while we aimed only to educate.” Right. As her companion Discover the Networks profile illustrates, Dohrn now goes even further: insisting their bombings weren’t terrorist acts at all: “We rejected terrorism. We were careful not to hurt anybody.”
What??? Terrorism hurts everyone! This is the kind of sickness we deal with....even in this country.
Maybe she’s forgotten the “bastards getting what was coming to them” part. Or maybe she’s just lying. She was, we can be confident, something less than a model of compassion back then — like at the Weathermen “War Council” meeting in 1969, when she famously gushed over the barbaric Manson Family murders of the pregnant actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, and three others: “Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!”
Charming. The “War Council,” it should be noted, concluded by first condemning the United States for — what else? — its pervasive racism, then formally declaring war against what the Weathermen called “AmeriKKKa.” Rev. Wright would have understood.
It was at the Chicago home of Ayers and Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming “community organizer,” had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working “only to educate” — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers.
Even keeping in mine that the first meeting between the Obama's and Ayers was in 1995....if you think about it, that wasn't all that long ago. Also...although Barack Obama says he has distanced himself from Ayers his explanations for his involvement with Ayers is very weak. And...I say and, the liberal mainstream media refuses to ask Obama the tough questions about this association, or really anything else that might jeopardize his chance at the White House.
And herein lies the problem...because the media isn't delving into these issues a lot of folks don't know about any thing about any of this. But it's hardly surprising since the media has been this way since the advent of television and the nightly news; and especially when they're sucked into a liberal presidential candidate, as history has shown us.
Barack Obama made a joint appearance with Bill Ayers in 1997 at a University of Chicago panel on the outrage of treating juvenile criminals as if they were, well, criminals. Obama apologists say, “So what? People appear with other people all the time.” Nice try. This panel was orchestrated by none other than Michelle Obama, then an Associate Dean of Student Services. Ayers didn’t just "happen" to be there — he was "invited" by the Obamas to educate students on the question before the house: “Should a Child Ever Be Called a ‘Super Predator?’”
And here’s how the University’s press release chose to describe this would-be super predator:
The other panelists included “Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama … who is working to block proposed legislation that would throw more juvenile offenders into the adult system.” The goal was to promote change, to actuate the vision of “Chicago reformer” Jane Addams, who’d sought “the establishment of a separate court system for children which would act like a ‘kind and just parent’ for children in crisis.” Never mind the crises they’d caused the victims of their wanton murders and mayhem — the fault for those, surely, was our downright mean society.
The Ayers and Obama, meantime, kept up. There was yet another panel in 2002, Obama and Ayers waxing on “Intellectuals in Times of Crisis.” Dohrn, too, was asked to weigh in, on a panel addressing the question, “Why Do Ideas Matter?” I’m sure it was, er, wild.
So....even as recently as '02 the pair have paneled together. Now liberals can downplay this all they want, but as November is going to close in on us pretty fast...One: People who had not heard about any of these things will begin to hear, and, Two: I'll say it again...liberals and the mainstream media do not want the public at large to know of these issues, and they're scared, afraid that knowledge of these things could really hurt Barack Obama in November
Now finally lets move on to: RASHID KHALIDI
In the interim, Ayers and Obama had teamed up for three years on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago charitable organization. Together, they voted to donate $75,000 of the largesse they controlled to the Arab American Action Network. The AAAN was co-founded by Rashid Khalidi, a longtime supporter of Palestinian “resistance” attacks against Israel, which he openly regards as a racist, apartheid state. Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, Khalidi peremptorily denies having been a PLO operative or having directed its official press agency for six years (from 1976 to 1982). There can be no gainsaying, though, that he was an influential apologist for Yasser Arafat, the terror master who spawned two Intifadas and ordered the murder of American diplomats.
In the mean, besotted United States, of course, being a terrorist, a terror apologist, or simply raging at the machine qualifies one for a cushy academic soapbox. Thus did Khalidi eventually land on his feet at the University of Chicago, where he ran in the same circles as Associate Dean Michelle Obama, Law Professor Barack Obama, University of Illinois-Chicago Education Professor Bill Ayers, and Northwestern Law Professor Bernadine Dohrn (who prepared for a career in instructing future officers of the court with a stint in federal prison for flouting a judge’s order that she testify in a grand jury investigation into the Weathermen’s infamous Brinks robbery-murders).
They didn’t faze Barack Obama, though. He was front and center with Ayers and Dohrn at a farewell bash when Khalidi left Chicago for New York. It was only right. Khalidi, after all, had hosted a fundraiser for Obama in 2000,
And so there you have it...Barack Hussein Obama told us early on that he was willing to sit down with "Hamas", the majority faction in Palestine and Iran's terrorist president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the people who want nothing less that having Israel wiped off the planet, and who hate America and America's. And after the idiotically and nit-witted ex-president Jimmy Carter's, (a super liberal) trip to meet with Hamas, against all objections by the State Dept and the Justice Dept...and objections from the Executive Branch, Hamas says that they now feel legitimized...that's all we need.
Could they really have been friends? Well, Ayers is virtually channeling Michelle Obama and Jeremiah Wright when he wails that American “society is not a just and fair and decent place.”
“God, what a great country,” he scoffed to the Times. “It makes me want to puke.”
Hey, right back at you there, Professor. At least that’s how most of us are likely to feel. But not Sen. Obama. And that’s why Ayers — like Khalidi and Wright and Michelle Obama, and others who know the senator well while we’ve been told precious little — sees in Barack Obama the change he’s been waiting for.
The mystery of Barack Obama and his wife Michelle and their very questionable associations continue on, and liberals and the mainstream media continue to ignore the facts, look the other way, and dismiss what way too many other people believe are some pretty serious issues. But then....liberals understand the fine art of dismissivenss when it comes to the acceptance of the ones they so adore but that still require questioning. So...in this case, and once again, it's Barack Obama, and now his ever-more present wife, Michelle.
As is so typical in the liberal mindset and world, where anything and anyone not a part of that world requires, no, demands questioning, the tearing down of, explanations under extreme scrutiny to the point of belittlement, and public denouncements, denunciation, implication and indictment is the norm, especially in politics; the opposite holds the norm when roles are reversed. Clearly I'm speaking of the deliberate attempts to dismiss and ignore the issues that surround Obama and his wife and associates, especially by the mainstream media, and to confuse the general public and simultaneously distract the public in an effort to make the whole affair(s) just go away. In other words....hey, when it comes to you, we have questions and we want serious answers and now, but we'll not afford you the same. End of story....
I want to submit some excerpts from an article in National Review by Andrew McCarthy titled, The Company He Keeps--Meet Obama's circle: The same old America hating left. And the reason I want to do this is because everywhere you go in the news today you're only getting this rosey picture painted of Barack Hussein Obama. And....if your only news sources are mainstream such as ABC, CBS or NBC or any of their affiliates, than you're not getting the entire picture. You're getting only what they want you to get because they're so enamored by the guy and love him so much and are scared crazy that you might start to question these things. And they don't want that, they want what I think are four of the scariest words we might ever hear....President Barack Hussein Obama!
Why is Barack Obama so comfortable around people who so despise America and its allies? Maybe it’s because they’re so comfortable around him.
He presents as the transcendent agent of “change.” Sounds platitudinous, but it’s really quite strategically vaporous. Sen. Obama is loath to get into the details of how we should change, and, as the media’s Chosen One, he hasn’t had to.
But he’s not, as some hopefully dismiss him, a charismatic lightweight with a gift for sparkling the same old vapid cant. Judging from the company he chooses to keep, Obama’s change would radically alter this country. He eschews detail because most Americans don’t believe we’re a racist, heartless, imperialist cesspool of exploitation. The details would be disqualifying
His wife Michelle:
So, instead, we get glimpses. The most profound influence in his life, his wife Michelle, is notoriously less circumspect than her careful husband about where she’s coming from. Her college thesis, which Princeton tried to keep under lock and key, testifies to a race-obsessed worldview. She may have refined it, but she’s never grown out of it.
After four years at one of America’s most esteemed academic institutions, Michelle recoiled at the thought of “further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.” That the sky has been the limit for her, that she has managed to ride the “periphery” from Princeton to Harvard Law School, to one of the country’s top law firms, and to a plethora of prestigious institutional positions, has not much altered her perspective. Through the windows of her mansion on Chicago’s south side, American society still appears as a caste system.
The United States, says she, is “just downright mean.” Never, prior to her husband’s presidential run, had she had a reason to feel proud of it, she told a campaign throng. But by last November, with Barack’s pursuit of the brass ring catching momentum, she suddenly got plenty proud. And confident: so much so that she was moved to tell MSNBC, “Black America will wake up and get it” — unite and carry him over the finish line.
I think I speak for a whole bunch of bitter folks who turn to their Bibles and guns when things are down that that's a pretty racist viewpoint. And I suppose that if she were to become "First Lady Michelle Obama", that she would appreciate, and be proud of America and all it has to offer just a little bit more.
Barack and Michelle's spiritual advisor and pastor for 20 years...The Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Who we actually have heard about.
Years earlier, the Obamas had gravitated to the baleful Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an unapologetic racist and hard Left firebrand. They were comfortable with him — and he with them.
By the senator’s own account, Wright is the inspiration for his memoir, The Audacity of Hope — the title is cribbed from a Wright sermon (“The Audacity to Hope”). For Michelle, who had written that a racial “separationist” would have a better understanding of American blacks than “an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight,” Wright’s Trinity Church mission statement had to resonate, right from its opening declaration:
"We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian… Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain ‘true to our native land,’ the mother continent, the cradle of civilization."
Quite the mission statement wouldn't you say? Now since Rev. Wright and his very close association to Obama has been in the news, and by this time most folks have had time to make their own evaluation, there's really no need to go into anymore detail about this racist, America-hating fool. This so-called man of God continues to be in the news because he loves the "face time", so we'll be hearing more about him anyway.
Barack Hussein Obama's past and current association with William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn:
With this as background, is it really all that startling that Sen. Obama enjoys a friendly relationship with Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, a pair of terrorists?
I want to be clear here: Not terrorist sympathizers. Terrorists.
The mainstream media, in their zeal to elect a Democrat, are assiduously airbrushing Ayers: “an aging lefty with a foolish past,” as the Chicago Sun-Times has so delicately put it. In fact, it is the press that is rife with foolish, aging lefties. Ayers, by contrast, is an unapologetic terrorist with a savage past — one who beat the system he so reviles when, after his years of fugitivity, terrorism charges were dropped due to government surveillance violations. He’s “guilty as sin,” by his own concession, but “free as a bird.”
Ayers didn’t just carry a sign outside the Pentagon on May 19, 1972. He bombed it. As his memoir gleefully recalled, “Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon. The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.”
Whether Pentagon bombing day was more or less ideal than other days, when he, Dohrn and their Weathermen comrades bombed the U.S. Capitol, the State Department, and sundry banks, police stations and courthouses, Ayers does not say. But on each occasion, there was surely optimism that the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.
There were lots of bombs. There is no remorse. “I don’t regret setting bombs,” he told the New York Times in 2001, sorry only that he and the others “didn’t do enough.” Like what? We can’t be sure, though National Review Online’s Jonah Goldberg recounts Ayers’s sentiments back in the day: “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.”
Ayers and Dohrn have done the actual dirty work of terror, while Jeremiah Wright draws the line at waving pom-poms. But the prism through which they assay the dirty work is precisely the same: America has it coming.
Now at this point I realize that this post is only getting longer and what I don't want to do is lose anyone. So I suppose turning this into a two-parter is a better idea than trying to post everything all at once.
I just cannot stress enough that if this man has any possibility at all of becoming our next president....we damn sure need to know more about him! I mean, after all, if this guy were running on a Republican ticket you can bet your sweet little behind that the media would be all over this night and day. As I said before....it's a true double standard. Liberals and the mainstream media DO NOT want you to know these things because if you did you'd be wanting to know more, you'd be asking questions and you'd be wanting your media outlets to be asking these questions....publicly and loud. But the liberals and the mainstream media would be all over this like "stink on shit" if in fact Barack Obama just happened to be a Republican!
As I struggle through the onslaught, (or rather the war), of the PA primary taking place today, and struggle through the constant barrage of ridiculous, overbearing and mostly untruthful campaign ads for these liberal Democrat candidates, I got to thinking about Common Sense. And then I was reminded that Mr. Common Sense is deceased..... he has passed away.
These people who want to be our leaders should be remembering Mr. Sense yet are not. And yet while we're allowing this to happen, well, it's quite apparent that most of the rest of us have forgotten Mr. Sense as well...shame on us! But for as much as I would just love to make this all about two people that I truly consider to be completely void of Common Sense; I can't. And I have to admit also that even for those of us who try hard to abide by the attitudes, the decencies and the lifestyles that Common Sense had always provided for us, even we struggle sometimes with Mr. Sense.
Try as we might in this day of brutal cynicism and senseless anger, of right and left and right and wrong, of condemnations and finger pointing, and of a world seemingly gone awry; we still have to realize and come to terms with the fact that we too lose our sense of Common Sense. It's time now to somehow resurrect the oh-so valuable ideals of Common Sense and the high moral ground that this country once possessed because of Mr. Sense. This came to me from a gentleman who reminded me of the sad passing of Common Sense.
London Times Obituary of the late Mr. Common Sense.
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was,since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
Why the early bird gets the worm;
Life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend
more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children,
are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but
overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy
charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens
suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher
fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing
the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly
children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental
consent to administer sun lotion or an Aspirin to a student; but
could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted
to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses;
and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself
from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for
assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to
realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in
her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust;
his wife, Discretion;
his daughter, Responsibility; and his son,
Reason.
He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights,
I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I'm A Victim.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and
do nothing.'
I thought very highly of this piece and appreciated how succinct it is, I also realized that a number of Mr. Common Sense's traits and characteristics were left out. Nevertheless....I think that most of us can fairly easily figure out what those are and what they used to mean to us.
I tell ya...I just dunno. I was over at my good friend "E's" (Eclectablog's) site and he's posted a photo of Barack Obama being hugged by two women with a tag-line saying it's a "Obama Sandwich." Now I admit that it was humorous and I always enjoy "E,s" humor and at least it wasn't a photo of the guy hugging babies. But while perusing the comments I noticed a recurring theme amongst not only the commentors but with "E" as well. And that is that while Obama speaks so eloquently, and speaks of all of these big changes he wants to make etc...they're not making any effort whatsoever to check into this guy a little deeper.
I think that Barack Obama really has a lot of folks truly hoodwinked. I mean the guy can say anything about anyone and you all just swoon all over him like he's a Frank Sinatra or an Elvis Presley, never questioning anything. Instead of making light of these women...maybe doing some analyzing and questioning of the things he's saying about the voters that he so dearly needs would be in better order. Now...I'm a Texan currently residing in Pennsylvania where both of the democratic candidates are now campaigning, and where both candidates are desperate to win because of the number of delegates to be gained. In other words....PA is a huge deal for them.
Recently at one of Obama's speeches, and speaking about rural and small town Pennsylvanians, he had this to say, “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years. … And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” And then casually explains it away that he "chose his words badly." Well Obama fans...this is not the only time that he's made racist and inflammatory remarks and with what is seemingly like no regard at all for who and what he's talking about! And still you swoon....
He is losing voters here, and quickly. Every night since this has come out our local news affiliates go out to report on location at the very sites that Obama, and Clinton go to do their handshaking, baby kissing and to serve the customers their dinners and chat with them about their "bitterness", and why they pray to their guns and go to church. At these same places and talking to the same people the same question is invariably asked...."Are you going to vote for Barack Obama?" And the same answer comes out each and every time, No! And I need to add that these are the very same folks that were once going to vote for Barack Obama. They too were once those who swooned...they too were once folks that were taken in by his so-called "eloquent" speeches and his charisma and his charm and his dashing good looks. But you combine his alarming association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and his oh-so poor responses to that along with his most recent remarks....and they're out, that's it! These are people now destined to vote for Hillary Clinton...or, maybe even John McCain! But they stopped swooning and started to do some thinking
I would never presume to try to change someones vote, or to convert them from their party or belief system, but man-oh-man, I would definitely want you to start watching better and to definitely start listening much closer. He's being called an "elitist" and that he's "out of touch with rural America", and that he doesn't seem to "get" the Second Amendment, and I happen to believe these things the more he talks. I won't add in any of the growing number of quotes being said about the guy because the list is too long...go look for yourself. But the man is a socialist who can't be truthful about where he gets his money from, yet he's real clear about how he wants to get your money. He has absolutely no glue about how to deal with the military, much less terrorism, yet he'll end the war in 100 days and keep us safe from terrorism....how he has yet to say. And he'll somehow put an end to "business as usual in Washington", knowing that almost every presidential hopeful has said that and failed miserably at it. I can't figure that one out....unless he wants to give Washington back to it's rightful owners, us, in which case I'm all for it!
I'm just saying stop swooning long enough to do some serious research and thinking without taking in any of the media's Obama-loving hype. Take a good look at what he's done to his former voters here in PA. and then do some wondering on how that's going to affect his former voters around the country. And then do some serious thinking about who's money it is that he wants to use when he goes about making all of these, "Changes We Can Believe In."
National Guardsmen weld a section of wall being erected along the international border that separates San Luis, Mexico, and San Luis, Ariz., in this May 30, 2007, file photo. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Well since I last posted about our immigration problems the administration and the Dept. of Homeland Security are going to follow through with finishing the fence along our borders.
AP WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of 2008, federal officials said Tuesday.
Hooray....finally we're getting tougher. But the environmentalists are going to pitch fits about this even though they've been working with the DHS all along, trying to come up with viable solutions to what they perceive are going to harm the environment. More specific...wild cats, the ocelot and the jaguarundi which supposedly are on the endangered species list. They won't be able to cross the Rio Grande to mate.
But the environmentalists aren't the only people concerned with this fence:
Residents and property owners along the U.S.-Mexico border have complained about the fence construction. In South Texas, where opposition has been widespread, land owners refused to give the government access to property along the fence route. The government has since sued more than 50 property owners in South Texas to gain access to the land.
Even as the fence is being built, debate continues about whether it will stem illegal immigration.
Fernando Carrillo, a 32-year-old construction worker who was deported from Arizona six months ago, said the added security wouldn't stop him from trying to get back to his wife and three children in Phoenix. His youngest child was born while he was in Mexico.
"They can do what they want, but we will keep trying," he said while walking Tuesday with two other migrants along the newly built wall west of Nogales.
Now I haven't heard anything yet but I'm betting that many liberals are going to start screaming foul....saying that Bush and his administration are breaking laws. Much like they did with the terrorist wiretaps. Maybe the Church of The New York Times will get involved....much like they did when they exposed secrets that they weren't supposed to.
Here's how it breaks down in miles and legalities:
One waiver will address the construction of a 22-mile levee barrier in Hidalgo County, Texas. The other waiver will cover 30 miles of fencing and technology deployment on environmentally sensitive ground in San Diego, southern Arizona and the Rio Grande; and 215 miles in California, Arizona and Texas that face other legal impediments due to administrative processes. For instance, building in some areas requires assessments and studies that — if conducted — could not be completed in time to finish the fence by the end of the year.
Chertoff had said using the waivers would be a last resort. The department has held more than 100 meetings with lawmakers, environmental groups and residents in an effort to work out obstacles and objections to fence construction.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me. And one of the issues addressed is curbing the in-flow of drugs coming into the United States. A fence will make a difference, although we know that these drug cartels, drug dealers and drug runners are pretty crafty, and will try hard to find ways to beat the fence. Hopefully the new surveillance equipment being installed at the same time as the fence will help. If nothing else...help identify those that are bringing the drugs across. As Chertoff says:
"Criminal activity at the border does not stop for endless debate or protracted litigation," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in a statement. "These waivers will enable important security projects to keep moving."
So...that's it. Quickly I want to change the subject to Barack Obama. We're getting a lot of his and Hillary's TV campaign ads now and in Obama's ads he's telling us that, "I don't take money from big oil companies" and "I don't take money from Washington lobbiests."
Well we're finding out that he does take money from people who work for big oil companies....$33,000 to be exact. Yet the liberal mainstream media is not calling him on this; why the hell is that?? If John McCain was going around saying things like that, that weren't so, you could easily bet that that same media would be all over it! Obama seems to be getting another free pass and you can see just how bias the mainstream media is.
Not only is it frustrating as hell but maddening as well. The least that Obama could do is not make claims like this....it's not right, and it's showing that along with this, and the other issues that don't seem to be going away, that he's just another politician.
As far as I'm concerned...."Change we can believe in." Just flew out the window.
While all of our time has been taken up by the race for the White House candidates, Congress has let one very important issue fall by the wayside…and that is our border security and illegal immigration. And we can thank Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and some of her far-left cronies for this and they’re looking to put the amnesty bill back on the table. This would mean amnesty for 12 to 20 million illegal aliens! We just cannot do this, it’s wrong, it’s incredibly dangerous, and not only does a huge disservice to us but also to the millions of people who came here legally…whether they became citizens or not.
Their first oder of business is to block legislation that would enforce and secure, and that bill is the:
Secure America Through Verification And Enforcement Act Of 2007 Now this bill would add some 8,000-border patrol agents and will allow employers to easily verify a workers immigration status. But Pelosi and company want to block it…as the Washington Times wrote:
"But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the House Democratic leadership are open-borders advocates and want no part of the SAVE act, and have thus far managed to keep the bill buried...."
I’ve made no secret to the fact that I loath and despise Nancy Pelosi and her pal and fellow uber-liberal Harry Reid (D-NV)…and company. And this action on their part just confirms what and who they really are! Of course all of the fuss between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton helps to distract people from paying attention to this very important issue…and here’s how the Washington Times describes one of the reason’s why Pelosi & Co are doing this:
"You've got Ms. Pelosi and the traditional Democrat groups basically wanting to see this population of 20 million illegals voting for Democrats. They want to give them residency, citizship, and register them to vote so they can use this illegal population as a political bloc that's beholden to them because they're the one who empowered them with the votes..."
Well this is certainly no surprise is it? Give people who are here illegally amnesty and they will be beholden to Pelosi and the Democratic Party…plain and simple. That is some 12 to 20 million extra votes, votes that as far as we’re concerned are illegal as well. The drain on our society from these illegal aliens is astronomical when you consider they’re abuse of the welfare system, the school systems, our emergency room services, and what’s worse is that most of these illegal people think that they deserve these services regardless of their immigration status; and that part of it just burns me up! Send them home, as many as we can, and if they want to come back legally after a waiting period, fine. In the meantime get these 8,000 border patrol agents hired, build the fences that keep the illegal from crossing our borders, and give employers the ability to verify the immigration status of employees. And if an employer hires an illegal alien then impose stiff fines and possible jail time depending on the magnitude of the offense.
You know, these politicians work for us, we the “people” are their employers but yet we let them get away with pretty much anything and everything. The more we allow this to happen…the more they’ll take knowing the we the “people” don’t pay attention. Also in the liberals business as usual tactics it’s a given that these members, and others are being strong armed by Pelosi & Co and fear reprisals from these rotten cores. The SocialistWorkers.org website speaks openly of Pelosi & company’s assurances:
"So far, the House leadership will block the SAVE act unless provisions are added to give the "undocumented" a chance at citizenship"
Conservative Republicans understand that the word “undocumented” is a code word that the amnesty crowd uses because it’s less offensive than calling those who have entered the United States illegally what they really are---illegal aliens! It’s the same old song and dance from the liberal’s…give us amnesty and we’ll beef up the borders, yeah right. This is like a slap in the face on us by a Democratic Congress that right now has a lower approval rating than George W. Bush…and Nancy Pelosi is at the top of the disapproval list. Once again the Washington Times writes:
"But unfortunately, the Democrats are putting together an elaborate con job: using tough-sounding rhetoric while working behind the scenes with open-borders advocates in the business community to win support from firms that have become very dependent on cheap foreign labor. The goal of these Democrats is....is to defeat a bipartisan bill that takes a no-amnesty, enforcement-oriented approach to illegal immigration. Specifically, they are very worried about the fact that a number of moderate and conservative Republicans and Democrats (and even a few liberals) are cosponsoring the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act (SAVE) Actm H.R. 4088...."
Well…you get the idea, and because we allow this type of thing to happen to us courtesy of our Democratic run Congress we’re the ones who suffer. We’re the ones paying for these illegal aliens to live here illegally, they’re the ones not paying taxes, and again we pay for the emergency room health care and their illegal kids education. It’s time that this stops, it’s time that we the “people” stand up and tell this congress that we’re just not going to take anymore of their irresponsible behavior. That we want that wall built and that we’re not going to give people that are here illegally amnesty. We’re a nation of immigrants…but legal immigrants. And everyday people come to this nation legally while we’re allowing others to get here illegally. Another slap in the face, especially to those who are following the rules and do come here the right way. And lastly…all of the other immigrants learned to speak our language when coming here, rather than we learn their language.
What a mess the Democratic Party is in right now. And before I go any further, I already know that all kinds of people are yammering about the big ripple in the Obama/Clinton pond…or should I say lake, and I’m going to get my two cents in. First off, isn’t it funny how the Democrats were so high on the idea that starting the primaries and caucuses earlier than what we’ve known forever would somehow help them secure the White House for 2009, and that all of that early push in campaigning, starting basically in February of 2007 would help seal the deal. The American people would get to know them early on and know them well. Hmm…most polls taken right now are showing that the American people are not only tired of seeing the two candidates on their TV screens night and day but that we’re ultra-tired of the garbage that is surfacing between the two candidates. By all appearances it would seem that the plan has really backfired and has had the direct opposite effect intended.
Many of us have known for sometime now just what kind of person Hillary Clinton is. A conniving, two-faced, power-mongering hypocrite with no more concern for the American people than I have for white cockroaches. I’m guessing that her and her “people” didn’t factor in that by starting this campaigning so early, she might be exposed before taking the oath of office. It looks like she’s now earned a spot in the league of swiftboaters…just like her fellow liberal John Kerry. By now everyone knows about her huge Bosnia-- we had to duck and run for cover story. And by now everyone has seen the video of her sauntering casually over to the crowd and then leaning down to listen to a cute little poem written by a cute little girl. No gunfire, no ducking or running for cover…no nothing. You or I would have no idea as to what to do with the ensuing public humiliation…not Hillary. Years of experience have taught her how to wrangle out of things, however not this time.
But you see with her it doesn’t really stop there if you think about it. She says that she was tired and that she had been making many stops and that she was bleary-eyed etc. Ok…what would happen Hillary if you were on a president’s schedule and had an ultra important decision to make? Perhaps it involved something terrorism related or worse yet nuclear related and you were tired and bleary-eyed and had been up all night the night before, and you had to make an executive decision immediately? Or what about your campaign commercial where you describe yourself as being the one best suited to handle that 3:00 am phone call coming from the red phone; would you or could you wake up at 3:00 am to answer the phone? And would you be able to digest and understand what was being said…and could you handle whatever the issue might be? It looks to a growing population that the hole you’ve been digging for yourself is just getting deeper and deeper and deeper. I can tell you that it comes as no shock or surprise Hillary. You’ve been exposed….
Another problem Hillary has is none other that her husband, Bill Clinton. The man desperately wants to sway the people and have them believe that his wife is the only choice for president. He still believes the tag he was given years ago the he is the “great orator”. Say for a minute that there was any truth to that…he is the “great liar”, and he reeks of it so what good are any of his stump speeches for Hillary? The Clinton’s are in real trouble and it shows. They used to be the media darlings, the mainstream media, like ABC, CBS and NBC just loved them both and they could do no wrong. And now the powerful network nightly news programs are all over her and it’s hurting her. She’s not used to that kind of treatment from them…it could be bye-bye Hillary.
Now there’s Barack Hussein Obama; and it’s getting worse for him too. He and his people are starting to take a second look at what they thought was going to be a free and easy ride to the White House. Even with all of Hillary Clinton’s troubles his are mounting, and even though he has been the darling of the media since the beginning, they cannot take the same risk as they did with the Clinton’s and look the other way when there are real questions that need answering. Obama now finds himself wound up in a controversy over his pastor of 20 years, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. By now most people have heard about the race geared, hate filled sermons that damn America, claims that the white man invented AIDS to kill the black man and then his anti-Semitists remarks. Obama’s response to all of this and more is not good. Either he never recalls hearing things like that in the 20 years of attending his church…or, he wasn’t there those particular days. This is some of what Barack Obama had to say in defense of his pastor:
"For the men and women of Rev. Wright's generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years. That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table."
Recently Obama gave a speech in response to the revelations of the pastor’s sermons. Sorry-assed liberal commentator Chris Matthews compared the speech to the Gettysburg Address, others thought it to be sufficient enough to give Obama a pass…and many others are left wondering; why wouldn’t you disassociate yourself from this man the moment you realized just what it is he’s preaching about? And also why didn’t you even touch on the anti-Semitist comments in your speech?
If you read Obama’s speech you’ll find it full of angst, despair, hatred and race. While he may have thought it to be words of hope and of the changes that he so eloquently speaks of…they weren’t. He’s brought hate and racism into his campaign and though it may be subtle, it’s there. We’re also learning now that Rev. Wright has close ties to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and we’re learning that Wright has recently awarded Farrakhan the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter award, saying Farrakhan ”truly epitomizes greatness”. Not only that, but Wright joined Farrakhan in 1984 on a trip to Libya to visit with Moammar Gadhafi. What are we to make of this? And what are we to make of Obama’s wife Michelle? Who much like the wife of John Kerry, Treasa Heinz Kerry, doesn’t seem to know how and when to keep her mouth shut. Spouting crap in a speech to a low income blue-collar audience telling them to not bother going to collage, getting a degree in law and then dabble in hedge funds…what? And more recently, to another audience, that America was founded on racism and runs on racism. So in this race we have anger, hate and have of course the race card.
Barack Hussein Obama definitely has some family issues when you consider that his mother is a white atheist, a grandmother a pronounced racist, an agnostic father and a Muslim step- father. There’s diversity for you. Well…the riffs between the two Democratic candidates are truly fun to watch for us conservative Republicans. We’re wondering what liberals would be saying right now if this whole thing were reversed. I hear people talking about how they don’t want Bush in office for a third term, and that this is how it would be if Sen. John McCain takes the White House. How so when you consider that Bush and McCain have knocked heads many times on quite a few different issues. They’ve disagreed with each other a lot, and Bush is nowhere near as liberal-minded on some issues as John McCain has shown himself to be. Again…more amusement for us Republicans.
We’ll let the liberals squirm in their panties while Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton go after each other and annoy the public even more. And John McCain can sit back and start to figure how he plans on running the country.
When I first got this I laughed so hard I cried! What's even funnier is that I'm from that era, so I could relate all that much more. Now myself along with millions of other guys back then had the 3 inch high white belt...only I think that the white ones were more like 2-1/2 inches high. But hey, back then? Who was counting?
I'm going to keep the comments as I got them verbatim...
Last weekend I was putting in a ceiling fan for my wife's grandfather. While my wife's brother and I were fitting the fan in between the joists we found something, what we found was this:
A J.C. Penney catalog from 1977. It's not often that blog fodder just falls in my life...but holy hell this was two solid inches of it, right there for the taking.
I thumbed through it quickly and there was my next dining room set, which is apparently made by sticking upholstery to old barrels:
Also, I'm totally getting this for my bathroom.
There's plenty more home furnishings where that came from, however I'm not going to bore you with that. Instead, I'm going to bore you with something else. The clothes.
The clothes are fantastic!
Here's how to get your ass kicked in elementary school.
Just look at the belt. It's like a boob-job for your pants. He probably needed help just to lift it into place. The belt loops have to be 3 inches long. And way to pull them up to your armpits, grandpa.
Here's how to get your ass kicked in high school:
The kid looks like he's pretending to be David Soul, who is pretending to be a cop who is pretending to be a pimp that everyone knows is really an undercover cop. Who is pretending to be 15.
Here's how to get your ass kicked on the golf course:
This "all purpose jumpsuit" is, according to the description, equally appropriate for playing golf or simply relaxing around the house. Personally, I can't see wearing this unless you happen to be relaxing around "your cell in D-block". Even then, the only reason you should put this on is because the warden made you, and as a one piece, it's slightly more effective as a deterrent against ass-rapery.
Here's how to get your ass kicked pretty much anywhere:
If you look at that picture quickly, it looks like Mr. Bob "no pants" Saget has his hand in the other guys pocket. In this case he doesn't, although you can tell just by looking at them that it's happened; or if it hasn't happened it will. Oh yes. It will. As soon as he puts down his matching coffee cup.
Here's how to get your ass kicked at the beach:
It looks like he's reaching for a gun, but you know it's probably just a bottle of suntan lotion in a holster.
How to get your ass kicked in a meeting:
If you wear this suit and don't sell used cars for a living, I believe you can be fined and face serious repercussions, up to and including termination. Or imprisonment, in which case you'd be forced to wear that orange jumpsuit.
How to get your ass kicked every day up to and including St. Patrick's Day:
Dear God in Heaven, I don't think that color exists anywhere in nature. There is NO excuse for wearing either of these ensembles unless you're working as a body guard for the Lucky Charms leprechaun.
In this next one, Your Search for Value Ends at Penney's.
As does your search for chest hair.
And this....seriously. No words.
Oh wait, it turns out that there are words after all. WHAT. THE. F*CK. I'm guessing the snap front gives you quick access to the chest hair. The little tie must be the pull tab.
Also judging by the sheer amount of his/her outfits, I'm guessing that in 1977 it was considered pretty stylish for couples to dress alike. This couple looks happy, don't they?
And nothing showcases your everlasting love more than the commitment of matching bathing suits.That, and a blonde girl with a look on her face that says "I love the way your junks fights against that fabric."
Then, after the lovin', you can relax in your one-piece terry cloth jumpsuit:
I could go on, but I'm tired and my eyes hurt from this little trip back in time. I think it's the colors. That said, I'll leave you with this tasteful little number:
Over the past couple of years I have posted about how we’re bending over backwards to accommodate Islam here in the states, and how it’s becoming misused and abused. The question is; just how far will we go? And where do we draw the line when it starts to infringe on the rights and customs of those of us who have had, and known these rights and customs for so very long now?
We have Islam forcing the Kansas City airport to take down their Christmas decorations because it was offensive, oh, and non-inclusive. But the problem with that garbage is that Islam doesn’t celebrate Christmas…so how would they be included? And they also demanded that the Menorah be removed. The airport board later put some balls on and put the decorations back up. In a number of college campuses around the country Muslims have lobbied for, and even protested to have their own wash basin’s and foot bath basin’s installed to accommodate their religion. In many cases these items were finally installed, at the expense of the schools.
Nationally and locally there are so many cases of Islam bullying it’s way into our society using the Constitution as one of it’s vehicles, also protesting, and without any sense of tolerance…it seems in a number of cases that the intolerance of other religions and customs is sort of the ”silent grounds” to be ridden of offensive things. And since Muhammad basically preaches intolerance of other religions and customs, it would make sense to use whatever means necessary to eliminate what we’ve known forever. It is the general nature of Islam, not just radical Islam to be intolerant of change…to not cooperate but to be obeyed. The latest case comes from Harvard of all places…talk about a place of tolerance but non-transparency.
Muslim women at Harvard are lobbying to have their own gym time, with no men around. In other words a gym that has been co-ed forever and where the right to be there is factored into the tuition would be changed permanently. And if you look at the schedules of college kids today, with getting to class, study time and other school related activities, there’s only so much time to get to the gym, to get in your workout. So they want to be able to use the gym by themselves with no men around. They’ve stated the times that they’d like to have…but again; how are the men supposed work around this especially when their schedules have pretty much been set in stone? The women’s arguments were rather weak though. They felt that they could relax more, or be more at ease, especially while wearing their head wraps…pretty lame, but this is what they’re saying. I should add that any of the other non-Muslim women interviewed balked at the idea saying that, in essence, ”they’re making demands that are just not realistic, and what’s next, demanding that Christian women as well be off-limits when they’re there?”
Now anytime I’ve written about Islam in any kind of negative way, I get labeled as the one who is intolerant…but I’m not. I spent a number of my growing up years in the most populated Muslim country in the world; so I suspect I know a little about how peaceful many Muslims are, and how loving as well. But I’m talking about a good portion of the Islam that has come to America, the Islam that would prefer doing away with celebrating Christian and Jewish traditions, and the Islam that apparently doesn’t recognize our Constitution when it comes to the right to practice your religion without fear, and to celebrate accordingly. But that ‘ole Constitution can sure be turned around on us when need be.
So the question remains…just how far will we bend over to accommodate Islam in America? Where do we draw the line when Islam begins to infringe on the ”people”? If we somehow have a Barack Hussein Obama in the White House how might this change the position of Islam in America? I’m not saying that he would endeavor to get the Koran into schools, or use it to swear on, or have it supersede the Bible where the Bible has stood here for several hundreds of years. But would the Islam world here, put undo pressure on the White House to make changes to accommodate the Islamic community, that would eventually begin to do away with the customs and traditions we’ve known forever; because they’re either offensive or non-inclusive? Settle down Obama groupies…I’m not implying that his first 100 days would be about changes like this…I would say the same about Hillary Rodham Clinton. In fact, I would go so far as to say that Clinton would be the first to succumb to pressure of that nature. Keep in mind also that the danger of an Obama or Hillary presidency is their tolerance towards globalization, a very lukewarm respect for our founding ideals and principles, and especially in Obama’s case his notions of being able to sit down and have any kind of meaningful dialogue with our adversaries.
I’m all for “live and let live”, and I’m all for equality amongst American’s…I am. But this problem has been seeping farther and deeper into this country since the start of the war in Iraq. Some in the Islamic community have seen this as a way to further a cause that in the end will have us sitting in the back seats. Because of the prevalence of extremists like Osama bin-Laden, and President Mahmoud Ahmandinejad of Iran, the continued unrest in Palestine and the incessant chanting of “death to America” in many Muslim countries, it injects uncertainty and fear into us, and the next thing you know we’re racing to see what’s politically incorrect and offensive and what can we do to make it all better! Europe right now is a prime example. France for instance is in it deep because of opening their doors and arms to any Muslim wanting in, and then when they cannot provide the jobs they want; what do they do? They burn anything and everything in sight…without regard to their neighbor who is non-Muslim and in the same boat. France right now is doing anything they can to accommodate; but at what cost?
I’m a big fan of England and the Brits…but for years now they’ve allowed extremist Mosques to be built that house and promote terrorism. They’ve quietly turned the other way while animosity and a hatred for the west has grown right under their noses…and then wonder why their subways and buses etc are getting blown to bits. In their defense though, Scotland Yard does brilliant work in tracking down these terrorists and bringing them to justice. But wouldn’t have a wearier eye in the beginning helped now, in today’s climate of hating the west? America is still very lame when it comes to who gets in and who doesn’t. And take a look at the latest numbers put out by the DHS, (Department of Homeland Security). Even since 9/11 there has been virtually no change in how flight schools do background checks on prospective students. Most of the schools audited were found to be in violation of the rules set forth by the DHS and the FAA, (Federal Aviation Administration). Worse still…the majority of the students in question were from somewhere in the Middle East. Here comes complacency again…and of course for the schools the almighty dollar.
I’m advocating a tougher stance on what we do to accommodate just one religion, and one group of people. I’m advocating that we not succumb to pressures put on us by a select group that thinks that we’re non-inclusive and intolerant; we’re not and we have proven this since the beginning of this country. I’m advocating more awareness of this growing problem, and a willingness of those so torn up over what’s correct and what’s incorrect to make a more concerted effort to understand where the limits of tolerance lay. We are indeed a nation of immigrants and will continue to be a nation of immigrants…it is after all what this country is about. But we cannot allow ourselves to become so tolerant of, and subject to, just one group and one religion that we find ourselves a society that obeys in the name of tolerance and “diversity”. Invariably most all in our intelligence communities agree that another attack on this country is imminent…and misguided tolerance and liberalism in this country will do nothing but help to foster any attack.
This one of Bush I tossed in purely for humors sake.
When I said "we" I was speaking of "we" bloggers! I'll bet you'll find at least one, probably more, of yourself in here. Out of the 20 I've posted, I have found several "me's", and I could probably find more if I spent some time thinking back to when I first started using computers for work....and then for fun; which is what "we" have here in our "blog 'o' sphere.
So have fun and and see how many "you's" are here.....
I just have to say what a real treat it is, in this day and age of teenage angst, and of pants that hang around the butt, and piercing’s in every orifice, and then some. In this day of pure laziness and carrying the notion that they deserve…I’m entitled, it’s about me, me, me, to find a teenager that’s polite, kind, smart, dressed for the times but has his pants on the right way…and is able to carry on a meaningful conversation that doesn’t require the “F” word in every sentence, and doesn’t say yo, or dude, or use the Ebonics language in every other sentence.
Now I’m not blind, or stupid, or pessimistic about today’s youth, (necessarily), or even prejudiced against today’s youth. And I know that there’s a lot of good kids out there…somewhere, but most everywhere I go these days, whether it be to stop in a convenience store real quick, or a department store, or a movie theater, or most any public place you can think of…I see these lazy, extremely ill-dressed, most notably the pants down around the butt, and showing off the boxers as though it’s a contest to see who’s got the coolest, foul mouths that I don’t remember us having in my day, (I’m not saying we didn’t cuss), and so many rings and studs in places that to me, just shouldn’t be going there, like…that’s just not meant to be! Back then if a guy wore just one small diamond stud in his ear he was automatically labeled as gay…and most were. Any more than that about the head and body and you can pretty much be certain that you’d be shunned from society.
