Obama’s State of Obama speech

SPEECH! SPEECH! SPEECH!

It seems that it is all the Democrats and Obama think that the American people want is to hear Obama make another speech and everything will be made right.

I am almost certain he may be onto something here though. They do not seem to care if there is anything of substance to his oratory, just that he stand up and SPEAK. Some even forget that he is black… Chris, just WHAT THE #### does Obama’s being black have to do with his giving a pathetically partisan, whining speech?

But… just WHAT did he say that was worth a minute’s worth of anything?

He called for the end of the military’s policy of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’… and this will do… what? Will it end the ban on gays and lesbians in the military? Mmmm… nothing said about that, just that they don’t have to keep quiet about it. Do you see anything of substance there? Neither do I.

Then there was his chest pounding about how he had cut taxes in the last year and how he was going to call for eliminating capital gains taxes on small business investments. He blathered on about how he is going to work for extending tax breaks for businesses to invest in new plants and equipment.

Oh, there was talk of some commission… what was THAT all about…?

What about healthcare… the debacle which ‘just HAD to be enacted before our collective next breath’ back in August, or was it September, or maybe it was by Thanksgiving…? no wait, it was Christmas… Obama called on Congress not to yield to public opposition but “to solve some problems, not run for the hills.”

But just how are these Democrats supposed to accomplish this Herculean feat? Did Obama have an answer for how they are to do that? Nope. all he did was his usual self-centered ‘Me, Me, Me, I, I, I,’ answer as he told the nation of his virtue, foresight, and determination to continuing the fight. What can these Democrats take away from this other than Obama is indifferent to their political needs and that they are on their own in an ‘every man or woman for themselves’ fight?

Throughout it all was his bullying and trying once again to throw the blame for his failures back on Bush. Correct me, but… didn’t Obama vote FOR most all of the programs and bills which have so drastically increased the Federal Budget in the past year? Hasn’t it been under his ‘rule’ that the deficit has increased by nearly a TRILLION dollars..? A trillion dollars increase in one year… How is Bush responsible for THAT?

Had it not been for his incendiary rhetoric and attacks against everyone from Bush, to the Supreme Court (the Third and SEPARATE branch of the American system – which he doesn’t control), to the Republicans, to the very people they are there to represent: the AMERICAN PEOPLE, more people than Harry Reid would have nodded off.

Actually, this was the main body and focus of his speech; point fingers and blame everyone else for his ineptitude, failures, and outright attacks on the American people.

Forgive me, I need to correct myself here: that wasn’t the main focus of his ‘State of Obama’ speech: it was his once again insisting that government is the answer to our problems.

He’s going to do this, he’s going to call for that… these
proposals probably won’t go any further in the Congress than last night’’s speech.

But ya know, throughout his babbling rant, Obama did nothing we have not seen before: follow Saul Alinsky’s teachings and in turn, The Marxist theory of “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”.

The Marxist theory “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” is defined as the use of state power by the working class against its enemies during the passage from a capitalist society to one of communism. This entails state control of the society and thereby the means of production.

Throughout all of the programs he has foisted upon the American people, every one of them can be shown to further this theory to lesser or greater degrees.

Obama’s State of Obama Address was nothing more than a reiteration of these principles and either a castigation or holding up to public ridicule of those who stand in his way of the adoption of a Statist society.

And even though the Democrats have the majority, and a good lot of that majority subscribe to the Statist ideals, they have come to see that the American people do not embrace those views.

Seeing their approval numbers tumbling and their membership withering right along with them, Senate Democrats won’t even give any of these grandiose ideas and proposals much chance of survival without a selective, piecemeal approach.

With the uncertainty they currently face: the fact that they just don’t have enough votes to muster a fight on any of his proposals…

…well, Obama made a speech… that like so many others of his, are nothing more than hot air that chills as it passes before his face.

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Oh, did I think to mention that Hillary Clinton was conveniently not in attendance for this yawn-fest…? Hmmm…

Hillary… getting ready to put the soft-compound tires back on her campaign?

O-kay… how long have i been running around ranting that Hillary is just waiting for her chance to get her name back on the airwaves as a Presidential candidate? *Here’s a hint: since she lost the Democrat’ic nod as their candidate.

Hillary is going to run.

Although i am not a NASCAR fan, i know that a lot of people are. I am told that Goodyear makes different tires to be used at different tracks.

Some tracks require tires which are softer and thus stickier and give the driver the most traction possible. Other tracks call for a harder rubber compound in the tire makeup in order to keep the tires from falling apart.

Given the showings of Conservatives and their strength from the wins of Republican Bob McDonnell against Creigh Deeds in Virginia, Republican Chris Christie in the Democrat’ic stronghold of New Jersey (who would have thought?), the near win in NY-23 of Doug Hoffman and yesterday… the near-impossible to believe happened. The people of the State of Massachusetts chose to send a Republican to the United States Senate.

Someone who sees his win as a a win for the people of Massachusetts.

Who are the losers in the result of this race?

Well, we can count Martha (“Marcia”) Coakley first, but the Kennedy machine took it on the nose too. The ‘adopted’ son to the Kennedy clan Barack Obama got put on the ropes with this Liberal loss.

With a year of smackdowns under his belt, Obama has no coattails, and in the world of politics where image is reality; Obama is not only toxic to a candidate but his agenda is easily followed by the smoketrail it is leaving as it spirals earthward.

* Obama, instead of addressing the need for troops in Afghanistan, deigned to grace the Olympic Committee in Copenhagen with his presence in order to allow them to give Chicago their nod. OOPS!
* And then he dissed the Norwegian King Harald V in his hurry to get to Copenhagen to explain the need of the climate control (economic hobbling of the US) global warming treaty. Well, there was another major failure for him.

Speaking of his disrespecting people… Here are some more of Obama’s disses:

* How about the victims of the Islamic terrorist Hasan and his attack on the solders of Ft. Hood,Texas?
* KSM? A complete diss of the American people. How many innocent people did he kill? Or have his hands in their deaths…?
* The Islamic terrorist who tried to take down the flight to Detroit on Christmas day…?

Then we look to Obama’s record on other things he has accomplished:
* The failure to pass his ultimate Cap and Trade agenda was another showcase of Obama’s inability to garner unequivocal support for his takeover of America. And that was back when everyone loved him.
* Unemployment: In December employment again fell in construction, manufacturing, and wholesale trade. And yeah, temporary help services and health care added a few jobs… but not many.
* The banking cesspool…
* The housing cesspool…
* The automobile cesspool…
* The view the rest of the world has of him, his policies, his running the value of the dollar into the ground…

You know… this list just KEEPS on going…

And now… after he went to Massachusetts to stump for Martha (“Marcia”) Coakley and make sure that everyone knew that… well, you know Scott Brown isn’t like us, why he drives a pickup…

Like i said before; much as we may not like her, we do have to agree, Hillary is smart and the consummate political animal.

Hillary has just been biding her time.

And now… Hillary is on pit-row having the soft-compound tires put on her campaign wagon as it sits idling, patiently waiting for her to climb back behind the wheel.

Haiti earthquake: God’s retribution or Mother Earth’s retaliation?

So just how far do we have go before we ask: “How ridiculous is THAT?”

I know that we should ask that question every day in our lives as we question everything around us in our search for the truth. And no, I am NOT talking about following some squat little man with a scruffy beard who wears a filthy rag as a robe and talks in indecipherable riddles.

I am talking about the ‘learn the facts for yourself’ kind of truth.

Now, that said… on with my ranting!
(Oh, everyone: Pat Robertson apologists, tree-hugging environmentalist wackos, Druids… you can all get your matches and cans of gasoline out for this one.)

Christians: Not your turn on this one.

First: on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 04:53:10 PM, 15 miles WSW of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, a shift in the earth occurred. This shift resulted in a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

FACT! GEOLOGIC STUFF HAPPENS people!

The earth we live on does this from time to time. Actually, it does it A LOT! It is a natural and very common occurrence. No phenomena, no God punishing a bunch of people for turning their backs on him. No ‘Mother Earth’ retaliating for mankind’s not cutting down a lot of trees to make some paper so that a bunch of stuff-shirts can scribble their names on that paper in order to protect ‘Mother Earth’.

After this earthquake… anyone that thinks that ‘Mother Earth’ needs to be protected from mankind…they NEED to really do some re-thinking as to who needs protecting from who!

I’m surprised that Danny Glover didn’t blame Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and anyone else his string-puller ‘Ugo’ told him to. Danny, Danny, Danny…

And then we have Pat Robertson…

Now I gotta ask: why are we shocked and dismayed at ANYTHING he sputters? Put him and Joe Biden in a room together and I’m almost afraid of the… results THAT conversation could have! But… ya know, it would be kinda funny to hear.

Yes, the Christian Bible does foretell of great disasters: floods, earthquakes, fires…pestilences… Revelation 16.

But for this doddering old fool to blame this, or rather to almost take credit for it on behalf of his god… all because of a bunch of rabble-rousers back in 1791 were looking to the religion of Vodou to help them throw off the yoke of French rule. Pat, Pat, Pat…

This is this reason I started this rant off the way I did: people NEED to know the facts and understand that this was an act of nature. The Tectonic Plates, which the crust (that’s the part we live on) rides on, shifts from time to time. Yeah, I know I said that already, but it bears repeating for those who want to ascribe some deeper meaning to this horrific occurrence.

To do so is tantamount to harkening us back to a time when a solar eclipse was enough to make or break the village witch doctor.

So instead of paying anymore attention to these two fools (and others of their ilk), why don’t we do what AMERICANS are damned good at: reaching out a hand and helping these people. Whether you can only give $10 or you can take time off from your work to go down there and sweat and cry with these people: DO SOMETHING!

Even the latest person to be vilified on the US public alter, Tiger Woods, is working to send a mobile hospital down there. Oh… yeah, he’s only doing that because he was told to by his agent to make the public think he cares… ye-ah… ri-ight… He realizes that he is but one person. A person with the means to make a big difference. Do you think that the people his hospital will help will walk away from it when they find out he sent it?

If you were in their place, would you be so haughty as to say; “Nope, not gonna go in there, he cheated on his wife, and he’s just wanting everyone to think nice of him…so I’ll suffer.”

Know the facts people! Quit blaming god or giving him the credit for ‘smiting down these evil people’. You know, I would bet you that there are a lot of Christians among those who died on Tuesday. I would also bet that there are a good lot of Christians walking around down there today praising their god that they are alive.

And Danny… ahmm… never mind, not worth anymore of my time.

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These are all over the Internet but in case you haven’t seen them, here are a two of the best sites to donate money to the relief effort: Yele.org, is an integral charity in Haiti. Problem is: as this is being written their site is crashing, probably from too many hits at once, real time reports say text “YELE” to 501501 to make a $5 donation. The Red Cross is asking that you text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10.

Confidence in this government, in Congress, in the Presidency has tumbled to an all-time low.

“How low?”

Forty-two percent. Yep… forty-two percent (42%) of Americans fall into the Strongly Disapprove Category of Rasmussen’s latest Obama Presidential Approval Index.

How could this happen to our Glorious Leader? What happened to cause this? Well, tell ya what… lets take a look at some of the plethora of reasons Americans, in fact, a lot of the world have lost their adoration of this man and his administration.

Unemployment is skyrocketing. November Federal unemployment figures are showing how the rate fell from October’s 10.2 percent to 10 percent. Now when you realize that one of the four weeks included in the calculating of this figure is only three days long. AND that week was a HOLIDAY week. So no one was out looking for a job and this is used to show how the jobless rate is going down. Su-ure…

A staggering economic recession. I could go on about this for 100,000 words and not even scratch he surface on this accomplishment of the Obama regime.

The housing crisis (which WAS started by liberals) and caused the housing sector to crater.

Another glowing accomplishment of this bunch: They took over GM and Chrysler. Then scammed the American public with the Cash For Clunkers program… How many of the new cars sold were actually AMERICAN MADE or even American assembled?

And just what was the long-term result of this hoax? In September, GM, Ford and Chrysler each reported drastic declines in sales. It seems that the American market is suffering from a hangover from the Cash for Clunkers scam.

When compared with 2008 September sales figures General Motors suffered the steepest drop, 45 percent. Chrysler? They were down 42 percent and what about Ford? Remember that Ford did not suck up to the government teat. I wonder if this fact has anything to do with the fact that Ford Motor Co. got to enjoy the much smaller decline of 5.1 percent.

The banking system, nationalizing mortgage agencies (in effect taking state ownership of half the homes in America)

Then there is the Cap and Trade package… what a joke. The vast amount of money this and the entire climate control scam will cost is almost beyond comprehension: $1,761 per family, per year.
Think of all the families in the US… $200 billion dollars PER YEAR!!!

This Cap and Trade climate control scam is falling apart before Obama’s very eyes. And now the rest of the world is getting to see the emptiness of his power. His support for the ‘Nopenhagen” climate control agenda has not done anything to get it’s passage, in fact, his support is playing to the very failure of the Copenhagen climate control and re-distribute the wealth of the US.

A stimulus (Slush fund) package that is still sitting, waiting to be spent. Well, just waiting to buy votes…

Next in line is the rationed, single-payer (off the table today, but tomorrow…), government healthcare plan.

61% of American people are dead-set against his hallmark piece of legislation and no, that does not mean that… well, so, 39% of the American people like it…

WRONG!

At the VERY best, maybe, MAYBE 19% like it. And even the people who taut that number do it with some reservation: they can’t show that approval is that high. I don’t know how I could try to sell something that less than one in five buyers are interested in. And lemme tell ya, my wife has a proven record as a salesperson, and ‘could sell refrigerators to Eskimos’. Not that she would try, but selling the American people on the rationed, government healthcare system that Princess Nancy, Squeaky Reid, and Big Barry are trying to cram down our throats is beyond even her.

If it is all so wonderful, everything that the American people need… why is Big Barry having to traipse over to Capitol Hill every other day to ‘talk’ (read: browbeat) to members of Congress? I thought he was so magnificent that this would have passed just because… well, HE asked for it.

Oh, yeah I know that this question has been asked, but it’s my turn: if the rationed, government healthcare scam is all so great, why don’t the members of Congress want to be the first to enroll their families in it? Maybe they know that the government healthcare plan WON’T EVEN begin actually enrolling participants for FOUR YEARS!!! Yeah, they start taxing the bejesus out of everyone now, but the American public won’t get to really appreciate how this scam will screw them over until 2014. But then, hopefully a LOT of the members of both houses of Congress WILL be private citizens again and will get to truly enjoy the benefits of this.

Another aspect of the rationed, government issued healthcare scam is the impact it will have on the National debt. The public debt plus the debt held by government accounts for the gross federal debt can go. The Treasury Department is able to borrow funds only as high as the statutory debt limit permits. The public holds 70% of the gross federal debt.

On Wednesday, by a 218-214 vote the House passed legislation to give the federal government the ability to borrow $290 billion to finance its operations for only six additional weeks.

Between this and the costs associated with the healthcare scam… even if no more is piled into the equation, our great-grandchildren will be paying on the bill this administration is passing on to them.
Oh, there is also someone who is REALLY PO’ed by how high the debt limit has been pushed. The Chinese, and they are LIVID with it. Seems that the Chinese are becoming increasingly disillusioned with Big Barry’s ‘leadership’.

And really, who can blame them? As of October the Chinese hold 798.9 billion dollars worth of US debt. The problem is: with the dropping of the value of the dollar… well, the Chinese are experiencing massive losses on their investment in US bonds.

And what about some of our other friends around the world? Well, Dubai, whose economy is so closely tied to ours is going face down into the sand.

“Do WHA…?” you ask. We remain dependent upon foreign oil. With no coherent energy policy and none on the horizon, this administration seems to be content to curtail and cripple the US economy so that less oil is needed.

And now… I know, you’re getting tired of all this. So are a lot of people. The problem is that the reasons just keep coming.

With the undermined world confidence in the US dollar: a direct result of the Obama Administration policies, a further devaluation of the dollar, an increase in interest rates, both of which will invariably lead to higher inflation in the US. Mass production of dollars U.S. by fiat is just another reason for the further drop in faith in the U.S.

So… because dollars are being printed as fast as the presses can run, the dollar is tanking in every way. Russia and China have been pushing to replace it with everything from the Euro (PAH-LEEZE) to whatever.

Now, some of the Arab States are pushing to replace the dollar with a petro-currency of their own.
The Gulf States who have so far have signed onto this idea are Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain, with The United Arab Emirates holding out, for now.

Replacing the US dollar as the currency used for oil contracts would greatly increase the influence of these Arab States in the global exchange and capital markets.

Collectively, the members of this group account to being a regional superpower. A superpower with a combined GDP of $1.2 trillion and forty percent of the world’s proven oil reserves.

And financial power equal to that of China. And we remember how PO’ed China is at us.

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Copenhagen: Climate Change or Redistribution of non-G-77 nations wealth………………………………………. President Obama to speak at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

So… the kidnapper-cum-Iranian Prime Minister Ahmadinejad is going to go to Copenhagen next week to address the “negotiators” at the international climate talks.

Oh, just so you know: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe are also planning to speak before this… august body.

Don’t worry I’m not going to ask my question the way I really feel that it deserves… but can someone PAH_LEEZE tell me just what these nutjobs are doing there. I mean, we are supposed to believe that this is a gathering of “scientists” (read: climate hoax-mongers) there to tackle to the Earth’s climate and get it under control, not an anti-US, anti-capitalism rally.

I know… it’s not REALLY about climate change but rather more about UN dictatorship empowered by heavy taxation. Marxism and Fascism at its pinnacle.

First, They have some back-bencher assistant president from Sudan by the name of Nafie Ali Nafie starting this hand-wringing blab-fest at noon on Wednesday.

This guy Nafie, he’s the chairman of a block of developing nations that call themselves the G-77. Now the G-77 is twisting a lot of arms in its push for stricter emissions cuts from rich countries. Oh, and more money, A LOT more money (handouts) from those rich countries. Basically, all this bunch is there for is to agree on how much each of these rich countries will have to pay in their financing of this massive redistribution of wealth.

By the way, we have the G-7, G-8, G-20… and now the G-77…? Just how many “G” country groups do we need? What purpose does this bunch serve other than to whine and crybaby about how badly they’ve been treated and that it’s all the US’s fault. I looked them up and cannot find a real purpose for the G-77 except a shared open hand extended to the US. The thing is, with countries like Brazil, Chile, India… Kuwait, Yemen… these are NOT poor countries, in fact they are countries WE depend on anymore.

Ca’mon now… if it had not been for the United States, where would those countries be? Definitely nowhere near the 21st century. And this is the same bunch who would bite off the hand that feeds it and kill the engine for all those free dollars it is intending on raping, I mean reaping from us?

Hey, I’ll admit: I’m a simple man, and yeah, I grew up out in New Mexico where you have to drill quite a ways to hit water. And when you do, it’s usually pretty good water. but… sometimes you can run a well dry. These countries, same as the liberals in this country, hold this idea that they can plunder the bank accounts of anyone who has more than they do and that there is no end to that supply of money. They stifle the US with this, and it won’t be long before this well will run dry. Where will these beggars be then?

New Scientist says of the conference: “It’s being billed as the meeting that will determine the future of humanity”. You know, I think I actually have something I agree with this rag on. It WILL change humanity! But definitely not in a good way.

Like the rationed, single-payer, government healthcare bill that is currently threatening to be passed, the results of this conference could easily be the tool used against developed nations in subjugating them and killing the engines which effectively move humanity forward through advances in every aspect of our collective lives.

New Scientist is also touting this debacle as a weeklong challenge for the ‘delegates’ to agree on ways of ensuring we do not exceed a 250,000 megaton maximum amount of carbon we can put into the atmosphere – ever. That’s not a yearly ration, that is an ALL TIME MAXIMUM! What is their answer when we actually DO hit that maximum?

Now when you realize that plant life thrives, yeah, it really does thrive on carbon dioxide, you realize it actually is quite necessary! In fact, without carbon dioxide plants and trees and in turn, everything that lives off of the vegetation of this planet – DIES! It’s kind of a cycle of life, food chain thing…

Water, soil, underground nutrients, and carbon dioxide make for healthy plants. Healthy, good tasting plants are used to feed others higher up the food chain than they are. In turn, those animals become food for the next tier above them. As animals eat the plants waste products; solid, liquid, and… yes airborne, are manufactured and start the cycle over and enrich the environment for plants.

I guess what I‘m getting at here is that this whole Copenhagen get-together is a farce whose only purpose is to move toward total control of the entire earth. WHILE stripping the US of it sovereignty and taking us headlong down the path of destruction.

Stripping the US of its sovereignty? Yep, if this does go through, United States citizens will be subject to world courts. And none other than our illustrious President is pushing to get this done.

After dissing King Harald V of Norway, President Obama went to Copenhagen, hoping his voice will add the necessary momentum to the throng in order to move the process forward.

This despite slow progress on the Cap and Trade bill at home which is to cut carbon emissions.

The one question I have had throughout writing this is: Why, if this is supposed to be a “scientific” conference, are all these heads of state running over there to line up to pressure these so-called white lab-coat researchers? If it truly WERE science that was being debated, Sarkozy, Obama, Ahmadinejad, Chavez… none of them would have any business being there.

I’ll leave you to ponder that question. I have my thoughts as to the answer, but right now ~ it’s your turn…

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OBAMA to skip Nobel Peace Prize Events and Celebration (Oh, and dapping the King too)

So Big Barry doesn’t think enough of the Norwegians, who by the way are the ones giving him the Nobel Prize for Peace, to stop by and at least have a beer with their King.

Not even a quick drive-by to bump fists and allow King Harald V the honor and privilege of being in his presence.

Yo, Big Barry, Whatta they call that in da ‘hood? Oh, yeah… you’re dissing da man.

Oh well, he’s just another whitey an’ it ain’t like he’s from somewhere important: like China, or Venezuela, or the SEIU… I ‘m jus’ saying… Queen Elizabeth, Nicolas Sarkozy (Remember, he’s the President of France. He has a very strong kick-ass attitude and… he likes HOT women too!). Wait a minute, these are all white people Big Barry is dissin’… Hey you, Big Barry, wha’s up wid dat yo?

I guess he figures that tha brutha Tiger is making up for his dissing white folk.

Sure, the Dalai Lama and Al Gore were able to make it to lunch with the King, but Big Barry? Just WHO do they think their King is? The impudence? The audacity? Why, why… they should just understand that Big Barry is… why, he’s impo’tant! (I heard someone saying that the other day on a newscast in Dallas so don’t start on me…).

Anyway, Big Barry isn’t making much of his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance. And, understandably the Norwegians are REALLY ticked off by this.

And to me this is kind of out of character for the big guy.

I mean, look at all the chances he is passing up to be the center of attention and praise himself:

1. Dinner with the Norwegian Nobel committee – meh, so what?
2. Press conference – OH! Wait, he could talk about himself and how he cares, and looks forward to getting letters from children all over the world.
3. Television interview – he could talk about himself and how he cares, and looks forward to getting letters from children all over the world. And he could whine about the mess Bush left him.
4. A children’s event promoting peace – another ‘so what?’ moment.
5. Music concert – Wow! this is getting boring – no way for him to talk about himself and how he cares, and looks forward to getting letters from children all over the world. And bash Bush.
6. Visit to exhibition in his honor at the Nobel peace center – Ah, another chance where he could talk about himself and how he cares, and looks forward to getting letters from children all over the world.
7. Lunch with the King of Norway – Naw, nothing in this for him.

The Swedish news agency TT is reporting an InFact poll that found 44 percent of the Norwegians believe Obama’s diss to King Harald V to be “rude.” And how do they feel about his not attending the traditional concert? Even more — 53 percent — are upset about this little faux-pax.

The president’s trip to Europe this week is being met with a definite chill. Even a quick read through Der Speigel, The Guardian, or The Local would soon show that the European love affair with Obama – which reached its zenith this week in his receiving the Nobel Prize – is over.

And now… a full third of Norwegians do not believe that the U.S. president deserves the Peace Prize.

There is also this: during Obama’s visit, in addition to all the other groups who applied for permits to demonstrate against this idiocy, 20 different Norwegian organizations also applied for permits to demonstrate.

And why should the Norwegians be surprised or upset by his ‘Alabama snub’ of them? He is only showing them the respect this award has truly come to deserve.

Well, that and the fact that they are not worthy of his presence.

Oh, by the way, for those who have never heard of the ‘Alabama snub’. Lemme ‘splain: in Alabama, this is THE most grievous insult possible.

You can have a torrid, twenty-year affair with a man’s wife. Daughter too! Run over his dog, and bash into his pickup truck as you make a hasty exit when he comes home unexpectedly – he’ll forgive you for all of that.

BUT! If you snub him – he’ll go to his grave hating you.

Now, I’m not saying that the Norwegians will come out of this snub hating him… but, I thought one of the reasons he got selected for the job was to run around the world making sure everyone liked us again.

THAT sure hasn’t happened: The Europeans laugh at him and at us by extension. The despots in the Middle-East and the Islamic world is REALLY PO’ed. China is upset that he has devalued so much of the paper they hold that it is now nearly worthless. Or WILL be if we keep going down the road he is trying to take this country on.

FAIL! Even with his insipid bowing and kowtowing to everyone he can find… that sure has not happened. Sorry, I digress. I’ll get back to my subject of Big Barry running over to Oslo. Doing a touch and go, drive-by award acceptance and racing on to Copenhagen to further screw the Norse (well, everyone actually) with the sham of a Climate (Population and Wealth-redistribution) Control Treaty.

Well, Geez… there isn’t much else I can say to the Norwegians except sorry you had to find out like this. It’s like the girlfriend who finally finds out that the guy she has been seeing really is married. She might have suspected for a long time, and turned a deaf ear to it, thinking all the while “He’s really wonderful and he wouldn’t do that to me. ..”

Sorry sweetie, Big Barry is just like that and after some wine and a good cry with your best friends the Swedish… you’ll get over him in time.

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Tiger Woods cheating Scandal: So WHAT!?

So… today I was in line at a convenience store and just ahead of me was some guy trying to show his wit and charm to the cashier with this lame attempt at a joke:
“Ju’hear how Cheata Woods had another woman come out claiming she was gettin’ ****ed by him?”
“Who?”
“You know, Cheata Woods? He’s havin’ to change his name from Tiger to Cheata.” He answered with a guffaw at this bit of witticism.
The young woman cashier just looked at the guy and handed him his change.
When he turned to look at me for backup for his joke, I gave him one of my favorite sullen stares accompanied by a monotone “Who cares?” The coupling of these pretty much made him decide to make a hasty retreat for the door.

And really… who cares?

Now, before you go off on some rant about how I am brushing it aside as though nothing happened and ‘well, they all do it, so who cares?’ bear with me for a few.

Did I say it was ok? NO!

Do I think that just because there are other big names, from the President on down, who cheat on their wives AND husbands that it’s ok? And yeah, women do it too. They are just a little better at hiding it. Probably because they aren’t showing their latest ‘trixie’ off to the guys. NO I don’t!

Do I think that he will have a LOT of sanctimonious bad press from people who ACTUALLY KNEW about Tiger’s cheating ways for YEARS and said nothing about it? Yeah… and rightfully so.

Do I think those same sports writers who are wringing their collective hands about ‘How a god has fallen?’ should be ashamed of themselves for trying to pass themselves off as shocked, SHOCKED I say! by this turn of events? Oh yeah!

According to some reports that are beginning to surface the only people who did not know about this was Elin and anyone NOT in the PGA golf community.

Is Tiger the latest to have to endure the American publics appetite as the main course in a public feeding frenzy? OH YEAH!

So yeah, we have a long (in fact, a VERY LOOONG) list of people who think that just because they are in some high place they can screw around and no one will either notice or care: Clinton, Kennedy, Sanford, Spitzer, Letterman… like I said: the list is a REALLY long one.

And yes, they all have taken a few teachable moments from the public airing of their transgressions. Generally: DON’T GET CAUGHT NEXT TIME!!!

Reports have Elin already packing up and moving out of their mansion in the Orlando area of Windermere.

GOOD FOR HER!

And what effect will all this have on Tiger Woods?

Personally? I don’t think it will teach him restraint. Discretion… oh yeah! Restraint… naw.

Professionally? Will he play golf on the circuit next year? Yeah… maybe not for the first few months, but by mid-year… yeah.

“You can’t really mean that?” You ask incredulously.

Oh, but I do. Think of how often we here in the States build up our icons only to find that they are not the true GODS we had turned them into. AND… that they had come to believing in some measure themselves!

And as soon as we have called to called to in great indignation cancel our tickets to the Masters or Pebble Beach… whoa, wait a minute, what am I thinking, so what if he screwed around with, oh never mind the number, damn those women were HOT! Aw… give the guy a little slack, being number one is a hard job and well… he needed to have a little relaxation time…
We can all say that we won’t buy Gatorade, oh, they aren’t sponsoring him anymore… oops, well, I’ve always liked Mtn. Dew more anyway.

But… I digress.

Will, Tiger be on the circuit by mid-year?

Uhmmm… yeah. Golf can’t afford not to have him playing, so they will come out and start downplaying this fairly soon I think.

In fact, if you ask me, I think he’s playing this whole thing fairly well: taking the blame early on, being quiet about it (for the most part), and taking the bunker mentality of letting everyone else expend all the oxygen.

I think he should just sit tight, let all these women start a major cat-fight over who was ‘most wronged and hurt by this deceitful so-and-so’ and NOT, NOT, NOT, do a Bill Clintonesque apology tour!

Tiger should give the whole mess at least six if not eight (ten would be better) weeks before he comes out and in one, maybe two appearances, explain that he was wrong, he has learned a valuable lesson, and with a lot of help, is going to be putting his life and the lives of his family back together.

I doubt that Tiger Woods will probably ever be viewed as a “good guy” again, but America… the entire world, has welcomed back a lot of other people who have committed more serious (and illegal) acts than Tiger Woods.

Some are already saying that Tiger will be back in two months and to play in all the Majors. It is a possibility. The game of golf needs him too badly to just toss him into the used balls bucket. There will be people who will cheer for him, maybe not as many as before this all came out… but there will be plenty there to drown out the jeers from his detractors in the bleachers.

The Tiger Woods ‘good guy’ myth is a thing of the past, Tiger still exists and he’ll continue to golf. And in time, all will be forgotten… probably sometime next week when someone screws up and steals the limelight from Tiger and his ‘Barbie-doll Mistress Show’.

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Agriculture in todays America

If American agriculture keeps going with the way it is, the US will be no better than a third world country importing the majority of it’s food.

It won’t be long before we are not going to need fences to keep the Mexican illegals from coming in, but rather to keep native born Americans IN the US.

While it is true that America is not an agrarian society anymore, and yes, you will hear how that the average American farmer feeds 128 people plus you, and himself, have you looked at the country of origin on that produce or that fruit you bought at the supermarket? Producto de Chile, Producto de Mexico, Producto de Guatemala, the list goes on.

And don’t think you are going to be seeing much in the way of Product of California anytime soon. Farmers in the Golden State are being strangled out by a two inch long little fish which provides nothing more than to be prey for two invasive species of fish that have gotten into the Sacramento Delta water system.

Larger fish such as striped bass and largemouth bass prey upon Delta Smelt for food. Oh, by the way, striped bass and largemouth bass are an alien, invasive species in the Sacramento Delta aquifer system… So, by their very very existence, the Delta Smelt is contributing to the destruction of their own ecosystem by providing a food source to these invading species of fish.

Today, because of the August 31, 2007 ruling by Eastern District California Federal Judge Oliver Wanger the San Joaquin Valley is being transformed into a dust bowl. His decision to severely curtail human use water deliveries at San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta from December to June in an attempt to protect the Delta Smelt has meant that hundreds of thousands of acres are now unproductive and wasting away as viable farmland.

And as that acreage is wasted and turned into a modern day Dust Bowl, tens of thousands of people are out of work — towns like Mendota are now faced with struggling with an unemployment rate of nearly 40%.

With the restrictions Judge Oliver Wanger placed on the region there isn’t enough water to go around this year. And what is the Obama administration doing about this situation? It is drawing up new reasons to divert more of it from farms and people and into the San Francisco Bay. Further driving MORE agricultural production, jobs, and subsequently – AMERICAN produce from the shelves of your local grocery stores.

While almond and plum trees are being left to die in the scorching sun, tomato plants, cantaloupe vines, berries of ALL kinds, lettuce… the list goes on and on of produce and fruit that is no longer being cultivated in this region. The VERY region that has historically fed so much of America.

The problem is that although i have focused so far on just one area of the country, the agricultural community of this ENTIRE country is being allowed to be legislated to possible extinction. Curtailed by legislation, harassed by environmentalist terrorism, the lending industry implosion, taxation… the AMERICAN family farm, and with it, a major piece of the backbone of the American way of life is slowly being destroyed.

And what is this wealth of American agriculture being replaced by?

Produce that is being grown beyond our borders.

In conditions that are NOT up to American USDA and FDA Standards. I would bet that the people who got food poisoning by eating onions at Chi-Chi’s Restaurants would have chosen differently had they known their meals included items grown in conditions which led to their health issues.

And how many other food contamination stories have you read about or seen reported on the nightly news which featured food coming in from beyond our borders?

Let’s see… Listeria, Salmonella, E. coli…

When you are dealing with growers in lands where there are either NO sanitary regulations or very minimalistic ones at best… what do you expect?

When you have someone working in a field who needs to take care of his or her basic bodily functions and for a number of reasons is either unwilling to walk to the nearest port-a-potty or there may not BE one within walking distance… well… their waste goes into the food chain and just may end up on your dinner table. Not very appetizing but a VERY real possibility with the origins of more and more of the produce and vegetables on the shelves of America’s store shelves.

I truly believe that by sharing our agricultural knowledge with other countries around the world and helping them become self-sustaining through whatever means is possible we as a nation become stronger. As the US goes, so goes the rest of current civilization. Just look around and see how the rest of the world has suffered as they watched the US suffer.

At the same time as we export our knowledge to them, these countries HAVE GOT to understand that if they are to sell products (of ANY kind) back to us, they HAVE GOT to be up to the standards we require of our own producers.

At a time we are watching our representatives shove an EXTREMELY unpopular rationed healthcare bill down our throats and they tell us about how they care about our health and well-being, they also let the American public fall prey to the deterioration of our own agricultural heritage and suffer the consequences of contaminated food, food shortages, higher unemployment, and destruction of irrigable land.

For what?

To save a useless little fish?

What’s more important than America, her people, her land and the people who till it… or a useless little fish…?

Western Growers
Produce Marketing Association
United Fresh Produce Association
Van Groningen & Sons
Certified Farmers’ Markets of Southern California
California Tomato Farmers
California Farmer Tapitwater
WSJ
Time
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays or Happy Religious Holy Days…

Ok, so… before we go any further, if this is your first time here, lemme warn you: i am not a Christian.

In fact, as those who regularly read my blog know: i am an Atheist.

Now… that said, sit back and read while i once again poke my fellow godless heathens in their collective eye.

Now we all know that the Winter Solstice is central to the history of various winter religious celebrations. In civilizations around the world and throughout the ages the shortest day of the year has been celebrated with festivals of all kinds.

Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Northern Europe, ancient Brazil, and who can forget the Mayans and the calendar they left behind that is supposed to tell us of how time will end sometime late in 2012… the Winter Solstice played an important role in their religious rites. When early Christians spread out over the Roman Empire and beyond, they adapted their religion. Incorporating some local customs and rites to make conversion to Christianity a bit more palatable to the people they encountered, those adaptations have become vital parts of the current Christian religion.

Actually did you know that there is substantial evidence in the Gospels to indicate that Yeshua (Jesus) was born in the fall, but early Christians seem to have been ignorant of this fact. By the time the 4th century AD rolled around, there were a lot of people who wanted to choose a day to celebrate Yeshua’s birthday. Church leaders leaders of the day decided that December 25th was good, now get this: because this was already the date recognized throughout the Roman Empire as the birthday of various Pagan gods.

Oh-kay…

Various religions who celebrate at this time of the year and their different RELIGIOUS Holy Days include, but are not limited to:
* Buddhists, who celebrate Bodhi Day (or as it is also known: Rohatsu) on Dec 8th (or the Sunday preceding the 8th). This is the day when, in 596 BC, that Buddha achieved enlightenment.
* To Druids The Solstice is when the old sun dies and the dark-half of the year is born. It was called “Alban Arthuan” by the ancient Druids. It is the end of month of the Elder Tree and the start of the month of the Birch. The three days before Yule is a magical time for them.
* In Islam, Muslim holidays generally follow the lunar calendar, and thus move each year relative to the solar calendar. Ramadan, which honors the lunar month in which the Qura’n was revealed by Allah to humanity depends upon the sighting of the crescent moon. Some years, Muslims celebrate the month of Ramadan during December.
* To followers of Judaism the 8 day festival of Hanukkah, or Festival of lights, recalls the 2nd century BC rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabean Revolt for religious freedom that was fought by the Maccabees against Antiochus, the king of Syria.

Now, in case you are wondering where i have wondered off to on this and are afraid that i am making a case for the “Well, since everyone is celebrating during December why not include everyone and say ‘Happy Holidays’?”

NO! Not in the least!

The founders based the Constitution on the Judaeo-Christian philosophy (and no, this does not mean that this is a Christian nation). Why? Well, that was the prevalent religious philosophy at the time. And you know what… Christianity STILL seems to be the number one religion in this country today!

Now we have established that on December 25th every year Christians celebrate the birth of their Lord: Yeshua (Jesus). This is fundamental to the Christian faith.

Yes, if you look at the etymological roots of the word “Holiday’ it stands for ‘Religious Holy Day’. So what? And yeah, there are A LOT of Religious Holy Days sprinkled throughout the year that are referred to as ‘Holidays’. Good for them…

Although… the last time i checked, we don’t say “Happy Holiday” at Easter… it’s “Happy Easter”. Even when we are sending our little cupcakes out to scrounge around looking for brightly colored hard-boiled eggs… Something which has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the death and resurrection of Jesus. Hmmm…

Anyway… i guess what it has taken me all this time to say is once again: My godless heathen brethren, get over yourselves and leave the Christians ALONE! If you don’t want to celebrate the birth of their Lord with them go off and celebrate whatever YOU want to, there is quite a wide variety of choices for you out there… And here is a hint: your choice doesn’t have to have any religious overtones for you.

If you look at everything around you as far as the entire season is concerned you would be hard pressed to see that it really was the celebration of a Religious Holy Day.

And to answer those who ask how i respond to someone saying “Merry Christmas” to me? I may not believe the Christian philosophy but out of respect for those who do, i cheerfully reply “Merry Christmas” to them.

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Oh, i guess i should tell those of you who feel it your duty to ‘explain’ to me how and why i need your brand of religion in my life: save your energy. If i feel that your comment even borders on this, it WILL not be posted and you will be blocked. L’estat, c’est moi…

In other words: stick to the subject!

Hey Newt! Go be a Democrat… please?

Newt Gingrich…

The man who led the 1994 Republican takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Newt Gingrich… who also got tossed (fairly unceremoniously) out of his Speaker’s position and sent packing after he attempted and nearly succeeded in consolidating more power in that office than over at the Oval Office.

Newt Gingrich… once “Mr. Conservative Republican”… now… well, let’s just say that Newt can’t call himself a Conservative with a straight face. And DEFINITELY not if he doesn’t want to be greeted by derisive jeers at THAT contention.

Lest we forget: it was little Newtie (we learned that was what his dear mother called him in an interview with Connie Chung (1995)) who worked with Hilary Clinton on one iteration of her failed health care plans. He also snuggled up real close to her on a a military readiness panel project she was working on…

And let’s not forget how he was almost a de-facto member of her 2008 Presidential bid team; giving her advice and nearly going on the stump for her…

Then, earlier this summer, Newt pitched in with ACORN (which endorsed Dede Scozzafava twice for the U.S. House seat from the 23rd district in NY). Planned Parenthood and NARAL were also active supporters of the EXTREMELY liberal Dede Scozzafava. And Newtie was right there trying to shove HER down the throats of true Conservative voters…

He then tried to reprimand TRUE Conservatives with his blatant and ridiculous hypocrisy by scolding them: “I think we are going to get into a very difficult environment around the country if suddenly conservative leaders decide they are going to anoint people without regard to local primaries and local choices.”

JUST WHAT THE **** had he, Micheal Steele, and the RNC just tried to do? They took the National machine in to a local contest and tried to shove a liberal, pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-bailout, pro-porkulus, pro-Big Labor radical down the voters throats. How much more hypocritical can this self-absorbed little man be? It’s ok for him to do it but not for anyone else? Newtie, it seems you snuggled up just a lit-tle TOO close to Hilary and took on some of her ‘Do as I say, not as I do’ rationale for how things are done.

Oh! Remember how back in 2007, Newtie said, “We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.”? Now though, despite his having supported English-only measures Newtie recently launched his own bilingual Web site: The Americano. And no, i did not link to it, i’m not going to promote it by doing even that little bit.

And now, Newt Gingrich is praising Big Barry for the the outright ridiculous way he is addressing the war in Afghanistan!!! Newtie says Big Barry is showing political courage after waiting over ONE HUNDRED days to give the same speech he gave back in March on the war effort in Afghanistan.

What a courageous stance Newtie: send 30,000 thousand of our finest and bravest to be nothing but the ‘last to be killed’ in an outright waste of time (for what it will accomplish) as they are not there to win but only be killed and brought back in body-bags.

Conservative principles, ideas, ideals, and integrity are only things of the past for Newtie as he once again proves that he wants nothing to do with them. Now… Newt seems to be interested in only one thing: the raw acquisition of power for the sake of power.

Although… let me “walk that back” as they commonly say now: he also seems to be giving Rev. Al Sharpton and a few of his ilk a REAL run for their money as to who is the bigger media & attention whore is.

Do any of these actions sound like what you would expect a true Conservative to take part in?

At least little Newtie didn’t go running to give Big Barry a figurative hug and kiss and come out endorsing him just a couple of weeks before the election.

Many people ask: “What happening to the man who led the Republicans to victory in 1994?” My opinion: he fell into the same trap that he scolds some of the Republicans that went to Washington with him: He became a Beltway Insider and sold whatever soul he had to always be the one the media runs to for a sound-bite.

Kinda makes ya wonder how Colin, Mike, John, and a few of the other attention whores feel…

Hey Newt, would you, Colin, John, Lindsey, Mike, Micheal, and a few others (Olympia, Susan, Christopher to start…) just be honest and go be Democrats? Please…? We know by your strips that you are NOT Conservatives.