Wednesday, June 19, 2013

While Obamanation and Michelle Antoinett spend millions of our tax dollars....

..... reminding the world that he is truly - Black Irish-American - and not Kenyan-American -- He drinks to their follow up $100 Million tax dollar paid excursion to Africa. Life is grand on the company credit card - ain't it~~
Up Yours!!
Now it's off to Africa, where they have chosen to visit three countries that do not have or apparently will not provide sufficient security to protect the Community Organizer and his Queen.  So, we are paying $100 million tax dollars to supplant the missing host protection:

The logistics of any presidential trip are costly. 

But arranging back-to-back visits to three developing countries with poor security infrastructure and limited medical resources could become the most expensive foreign excursions of Mr Obama's time in office. 

Military cargo planes will airlift 56 vehicles including 14 limousines, ambulances equipped for chemical and biological attacks and radio-jamming trucks to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.
A US aircraft carrier or amphibious warship with a full medical trauma centre will be anchored just offshore in case of emergencies. 

Three lorries will be used just to carry sheets of bullet-proof glass to be erected at hotels where the Obamas will stay during their trip, between June 26 and July 3. 

Because the visits happen one after another, three separate security, medical and logistics teams will be dispatched, one to each country. At least 445 Secret Service and White House security agents will be involved. 

In Ireland, the obviously Irish Michelle Antoinette announced from the stage after a command performance of RiverDance, "It's good to be home"!

What are the odds that she will voice these same words in Tanzania upon arrival? And while you ponder that difficult questions, you might also ask yourself, 'Why is his BO'ness not visiting Kenya, the home of his late father and current home to many of his relatives during this visit?' 

Y'all have a nice hump day today - and keep those tax dollars flowing to Washington - where every dollar will be carefully spent.!!

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Are you old enough to remember the shameless 'Daisy' political ads of LBJ

the shameless 'Daisy' political ads of LBJ against Gob'nor Goldwater?  ... well folks, here is it's 2013 equivalent!!

The union of state Pennsylvania liquor store employees have mounted this TV ad against privatization of State Liquor stores in that state....  As you watch it, you might wonder how --- private store owners would endanger pretty little blonde girls and their daddies, more than the current state operated stores do....??   

Nah, - safe drinking ain't got nothing to do with it -- but gob'mint personnel unions do....




How cold is that????



Let me make one thing perfectly clear......

I am neither a chauvinist, nor a misogynist ..... but breaking news today really tightens my jib.


Apparently, (under whose orders we don't know) the military leaders in Washington today will announce the expanded slots and roll of women in combat in the front lines. 


The AP reports that the plans allow women to start training as Army Rangers by 2015 and as Navy SEALS the next year!!!

Yep, that's what I said - as Rangers and SEALS.....

Naturally the caveat has been added: The military services have mapped out a schedule that will also include reviewing and possibly changing the physical and mental standards that men and women will have to meet in order to qualify for certain infantry, armor, commando and other front-line positions across the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.

So, the SEALS, for example - who recruit and accept only the brightest and most physically fit.... and yet still have a 90% drop out rate in their training courses --- will now be required to invite the distaff corps to participate...   

Why do I feel that the number of males volunteering and aspiring to be SEALS and Rangers will diminish? In the current atmosphere of drawing down the forces to a meaner, leaner, more mobile force ....  who the hell is behind the curtain on this bit of insanity. 

Okay, let's take 135 pound GI Jane, put a fifty pound pack on her, plus her weapons, and then ask her to carry a wounded, 195 pound GI Joe to safety 300 yards away...... or 200 feet down the side of a sheer cliff.

The insanity never ends -- and with political hacks like Panetta, Hagel, being led by a community organizer running the show... I don't guess it's gonna.  

Why does he hate this country so??

Marco (the puzzle) Rubio - once darling of the Tea Party...

and now lapdog for Chuck-You Schumer and the scheming Dims --  who is playing some immigration game understood only by two people -- Marco & Rubio -- took umbrage with Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Tex), a fellow Republican, who got under his skin when:

Referencing a Jay Leno one-liner, Burgess questioned fellow conservatives about the wisdom of giving citizenship to "11 million undocumented Democrats." Laughter, some of it nervous, spread throughout the room. But not everyone found Burgess's crack funny. According to several people who attended the June 5 gathering, Rubio glared at Burgess.
 
This account, confirmed by multiple members and staffers, sheds light on what is perhaps the most politically obvious—and perpetually underplayed—conservative argument against providing citizenship to the nation's illegal immigrants. With all the noise surrounding the debate over policy specifics—security measures, enforcement triggers, future flow, interior oversight—there is still an underlying political argument whispered among some of Congress's most conservative members: After 71 percent of Hispanics voted for President Obama in 2012, why should Republicans add millions more to the voting rolls?

I'm not going to belabor this whole topic, if you haven't read and heard enough about it during the last couple of months, then you are one of Rush Limbaugh's 'under-informed voters', and I don't think any of them stop by this blog!!  

I will add however, that in all my born years, I have never seen so many Dims, from Obamanation on down, offering advice to the Republicans on how to gain votes and win elections...... never!!
 

Monday, June 17, 2013

That PC toilet we live in is flushing faster and faster....

It seems an eighth-grader in Logan, West Virginia, wore a tee shirt to school with an NRA Logo on it. All was cool in morning classes until he went to lunch and the PC Nazi in the cafeteria ordered him to shed his shirt or turn it inside out......

Would a Che Guevara shirt been okay? Or an Obamanation logo shirt?

 versus







The 8th grader declined both of her offers and was sent to the office where he was arrested and charged with 'disrupting the educational process and obstructing and officer' !

He appeared before a judge (remember - he is an eighth grader and officially charged. If convicted, this lad could face a $500 fine or a year in prison.  We'll find out on July 11th. 

Keep in mind, this was in conservative West Virginia, not across the border in the People's Republic of Maryland.

Yee Gads, folks --- click here, Pogo was right!!

The Senate is about to vote on the Gang of Eight Idiot's immigration amnesty program!

But it's worse than you think --- 'cause we ain't talking about just granting amnesty to the the 11 - 20 million illegals already here -- we are talking about their spouses, kids, cuzzins and uncles getting to join them in a chain reaction....   here is how NumbersUSA tells it!


2 SHOCKING NUMBERS in the VIDEO
33 million
S. 744 -- the Senate Gang of Eight immigration bill -- would offer a minimum of 33 million lifetime work permits IN THE FIRST DECADE alone.
It may at first be hard to believe this number because most of the publicity on S. 744 has treated it as an amnesty bill for approximately 11 million illegal aliens.
But S. 744 is far larger than just an amnesty. Nearly every special interest in Washington has had a hand in ensuring that certain high levels of legal immigration continue and are expanded -- by a lot.
The 33 million would go to:
  • 11 million -- The estimated minimum number of foreign citizens in this country who crossed our borders illegally or who violated their visas and did not go home when they promised they would. The bill's amnesty provisions would give these foreign citizens work permits immediately (even before any additional workplace and border enforcement).
  • another 11 million -- These would be new legal immigrants brought in a continuation of the current system which is already three times higher than the traditional average of 3 million a decade before 1990.
  • 5 million -- These are all the people who have previously applied to enter the country but who have exceeded the limits placed on their categories to protect American workers. Most of them are chain migration relatives of previous immigrants. Many of them are relatives of the millions of illegal aliens who were legalized in the 7 amnesties between 1986 and 2000).
  • 6 million -- New immigrants who would come through brand new categories and expanded existing categories.
The 33 million new work visas IN A SINGLE DECADE would be almost half as many as ALL immigrants who have ever entered the U.S. in its history through today (1407-2013)!
20 million!
These are the totally forgotten people in the immigration debate.
They are our friends, relatives and neighbors who can't find a full-time job to support themselves and their families. The simple fact is that our nation is awash in too many workers seeking too few jobs.
The 1st Quarter reports from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau find that 20 million American citizens who want a full-time job still cannot find one.
Want to make sure they don't stay FORGOTTEN? Share this 30-second video with others.
Why would the Senate even consider such a bill? The news media have reported that more than 1,700 special-interest lobbyists -- representing major campaign contributors to Senators -- are pushing the bill they helped to write.
What do the special interests want? Many corporate entities want to increase the over-supply of various types of workers to lower the wages for everybody in those occupations in order to increase profits.
VERY FEW AMERICANS ARE AWARE OF THE DANGERS DESCRIBED IN THE 30-SECOND VIDEO.
PLEASE ALERT AS MANY AS YOU CAN. THE SENATE WILL VOTE SOON.
Americans will have to decide before June 12 (NOW) whether they will stand silent or whether they will challenge their Senators about a bill that abandons 20 million struggling Americans and puts our entire middle-class-style society at risk.
ROY BECK is the CEO & Founder of NumbersUSA
NumbersUSA's blogs are copyrighted and may be republished or reposted only if they are copied in their entirety, including this paragraph, and provide proper credit to NumbersUSA. NumbersUSA bears no responsibility for where our blogs may be republished or r

One way to stop repeat offenders......

In Colquechaca, Bolivia,  young Santos Ramos was identified by police as the rapist/murderer of a 35 yea-old village woman..

Villagers grabbed him, and after her funeral service - tied him up and threw him into the victims grave............. and buried him alive along side her coffin.  


To preclude interference from the local police, some of the villagers blocked the roads into the village.

I'll bet this was a teaching moment for other young men in the surrounding villages as well!

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Sunday Humor that turn out to be Monday truths......

1.  Comments abound in Washington that Chuck-you Schumer used Marco Rubio in this amnesty bill they are presenting --- even a Republican opined that a current popular joke on Capitol Hill is that Sen. Schumer let Rubio write the talking points while his (Schumer's) staff wrote the bill. It would be funny were it not proving so accurate. 

2.  Sarah Palin, at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington DC, said: “Until we have a commander-in-chief who knows what he’s doing…let Allah sort it out.”

3. Regarding Obamanations decision after all this time to give the Syrian rebels small arms..... General Douglas MacArthur said 60 years ago: “The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
  • Too late in comprehending the deadly purpose of a potential enemy.
  • Too late in realizing the mortal danger.
  • Too late in preparedness.
  • Too late in uniting all possible forces for resistance.
  • Too late in standing with one’s friends.” (From: The Instant Survivor, )
4. From Jay Leno: "President Obama said he welcomes a national debate over our surveillance policies. He said that’s a debate we wouldn’t have had five years ago. Five years ago? It’s a debate we wouldn’t have had two weeks ago if they all hadn’t gotten caught."

These scandals make that Cherry Tree incident look pretty small don't they!!

And the winner is................

Sorting through this week's headlines -- I came across this one -- and it wins in a runaway as the most inane, who give's a damn, headline of the week!

The Washington Examiner headlines their political blog story with:



Chelsea Clinton endorses mom: We need a woman in the White House

Being Father's Day, I couldn't bring myself to post Mom's pic

There are so many things I could say --- but it's Father's Day and I'm feeling mellow. Miss Chelsea was brought up in a broken home (even if her parents didn't split up) and now lives the good life on OPM (Other Peoples Money) just like Mom & Dad, through the Bill,Hillary & Chelsea Global Initiative Fund... newly renamed I guess - to spread the other people's wealth around a little and justify the Kingly-class perks and travel that go with their (non) jobs ...

Saturday, June 15, 2013

More about that Obamanation in the White House.....

Narcissist in Chief
To fully appreciate editorial artist Ramirez's cartoon, you need to click on it, notice what's in Obamanation's hand and note the mug on the desk....   Well done!

I read with interest that on the floor of the House yesterday - Representative George Holding of North Carolina pointed out that the $100,000,000 (100 million) of our tax dollars and borrowed Chinese Yuan, being spent on BO's family vacation to Africa would fund 1,350 weeks of White House Tours.....  in case you missed the logistics planning:

Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency.

Military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with sheets of bullet­proof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family will stay. Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president’s airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close.

The grandest emperors of the Roman Empire didn't demand this much security and comfort.... especially on a credit card!! And this doesn't even take in the expense for Himself and Michelle Antoinette, and the girl's little jaunt to Northern Ireland and Germany this coming week........

The excerpt above is from the Washington Post. 

Friday, June 14, 2013

Santa is Safe in Texas -- thank you very much.........

Today, Gov'nor Rick Perry of Texas signed "Merry Christmas' bill into law....

Yeee Haw......... Y'all!!!!
A damned shame that a law has to be passed - - but great that it was.

Surrounded by sleigh bell-ringing Santa Claus impersonators, Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday signed a law protecting Christmas and other holiday celebrations in Texas public schools from legal challenges - but also stressed that freedom of religion is not the same thing as freedom from religion.

Dubbed the "Merry Christmas" bill, the bipartisan measure sailed through the state House and Senate to reach Perry's desk.

It removes legal risks of saying "Merry Christmas" in schools while also protecting traditional holiday symbols, such as a menorah or nativity scene, so long as more than one religion and a secular symbol are also reflected.

"I realize it's only June. But it's a good June and the holidays are coming early this year," Perry said. " It's a shame that a bill like this one I'm signing today is even required, but I'm glad that we're standing up for religious freedom in this state. Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion."

Political Correctness and 'Newspeak' has become so common in our lives that this new example wouldn't be worth mentioning if it wasn't Flag Day, I reckon....

It appears that the National Archives have finally linked the 'Papers of the Founding Fathers' on line. 

In proudly announcing this fact (just like they had anything to do with it) the White House Blog announced it as:

"The Papers of the Founding Founders Are Now On Line"

Subtle - it ain't!!  Can't be giving credit to any fathers, after all.  

Apparently the Tweeters of the world arose and guffawed by the millions... so the WH Blog's title was renamed using the accurate 'Founding Fathers'....  it's URL however, continues to use Founding Fathers ... as in:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/06/13/papers-founding-founders-are-now-online

For a well written tongue in cheek column on this foolishness by Ezra Dulis  on Breitbart.com, click here......

Another example of the Law of Unintended Consequences... (better known as Dumb & Dumber)


Our brilliant politicians, led by their Community Organizer, have forced gas prices up at the pump, and spent billions of our tax dollars trying to get us all into electric cars.... 

I'll spare you the numbers and the details -- but it doesn't take a Nobel Prize winning economist to figure out that these efforts would cause two things to happen - the higher price at the pump would cause folks with gasoline powered cars to drive less --- and the increasing numbers of gob'mint subsidized electric and hybrid cars would make a serious dent (pun intended) in the gas pump sales as well.

As Martha Stewart might ask, "Isn't that a good thing?" 

Yes, but for the fact that the fewer gallons sold at the pump, the fewer gasoline tax dollars roll into the revenue coffers of the politicians across the country.  And if there is one constant rule in this country -- all taxes, every tax source must INCREASE every year - not decrease!

What to do? Across the land, politicians are all coming to the same conclusion: Put an added TAX on electric and hybrid cars to make up for the revenue lost at the pumps.

In Washington state, electric-car owners this year began paying a $100 annual fee. Virginia in April approved a $64 annual fee on hybrid and electric cars.

In New Jersey, Senator Jim Whelan, a Democrat from Atlantic City, has proposed a $50 annual fee on electric and compressed natural-gas cars that would be deposited into a state fund for road and bridge maintenance.

In Washington state, electric-car owners this year began paying a $100 annual fee. Virginia in April approved a $64 annual fee on hybrid and electric cars.

Of all the possible answers to the problem, less tax revenue, one might think of gob'mint belt tightening, more efficient state departments of transportation, more efficient methods of road maintenance...   but of course these wild and crazy ideas never cross the mind of an elected politician or gob'mint, unionized public servant...   

Nope, just raise taxes and fees.... I wonder if Gob'nor O'Malley up in the Peoples Republic of Maryland, the inventor of the rain tax, has a brain trust working on this tax drain? 

Click here for more from Autonews.com, if you have taken your blood pressure meds this morning!

It's FLAG DAY -- show your colors!!!

Born on this date in 1777, Old Glory is 236 years old today! Fly it proudly!

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

About that pesky 10th Amendment....

Two hundred and twenty-two years ago, 1791 to be exact, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

I was forcibly reminded of that Amendment again the other day when I read that a Senatorette from Minnesota - Amy Klobuchar, Dem (naturally) from Minnesota wants to make stealing metal a Federal Crime.  She's think in terms of copper and steel used in construction, power cables and such like ....    

I realize that with Obamanation's nation of unemployed folks, such theft is rampant (folks gotta eat, doncha know) but no matter how hard I looked -- nowhere in the Constitution did I see a paragraph or even a hint that the Federal Gob'mint is delegated the power to investigate and prosecute local metal thefts in the various States.... 

Sherlock the Fed?
Think about that now.... how about bicycles, they are made of metal. How far will this go over the years...  Stealing your kid's trike could be a federal offense some day, and Janet Reno's grandson could be in your front yard with a magnifying glass and a Sherlock Holmes cap on....

And while you are thinking, click here to link to a great article in today's American Spectator that addresses the continued and enormous growth of the Feds on our every day life!!

Not your normal picture of a walk on a Spring day....

Istanbul Town Square yesterday......





I was strolling through the square one day....
Just to see the kids and birds at play.
When much to my surprise, 
With tear gas in my eyes,
I decided it warn't the place to stay.......!

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Obamanation responds to the citizen.s protests on NSA surveillance...

He learned this Presidential response from his former Chief of Staff & Mentor

Rahm Emmanuel, former Chief of Staff & Mentor to the POTUS!!

Whassup up with Senator Marco Rubio????

Originally presenting hisself as an uber-conservative, he then signed on with the Gang of Eight and their secret, closed door 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' bill..  One of his explanations for joining with Schumer, Grahamnesty and the rest was to keep them toeing the line that the borders should be secured before the legalization begins.

That was then!!   On Univision (the Spanish speaking network) just this Sunday, Rubio stated flat out:

"Let’s be clear,” he said. “Nobody is talking about preventing the legalization. The legalization is going to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of permanent residence.”

So, just as if we didn't learn our lesson last time -- his plan is to legalize the  11 to 20 million illegals already here, before taking actions to secure the borders or any semblance of internal enforcement is enacted....  

Katy.. Bar the door!! - The Gang of Eight is Turnin 'em Loose!!
I reckon if that plan flies, the Southern Border of ours is gonna look like the Oklahoma land rush of  1889, with the tens of thousands of illegals who will want to beat it across the border before  the 'Ollie Ollie Oxen Free' sound ending the Ringalivio game....   

Is anybody awake out there?? Do you know your Senator or Congressman's e-mail address

I won't even mention my oft stated belief that any Bill that has the word "Comprehensive" in it -- has got to be bad, bad, bad and the worst sausage to come out of the Capitol Building!!

Monday, June 10, 2013

Eric Holder. holds something on Obamanation ... or knows who really holds the strings over the White House?

I don't believe in my lifetime, I have ever, ever heard a more arrogant, confident statement from a presidential appointee in my life. Even J Edgar Hoover wasn't this arrogant, publicly.  In an NBC interview, Eric Holder, when asked if he plans to resign after all these recent 1st Amendment scandals, said:

“there are things I want to do, things I want to get done that i have discussed with the president. Once I have finished that, I will sit down with him and we’ll determine when it is time to make a transition to a new attorney general.”
“But to be clear, you’re not stepping down now?” Williams asked again.
“No, I have no intention of doing so now,” Holder replied.

Now friends, I don't know how you read that -- but what I read is 'I'll give up my office and step down when I am God Damn good and ready... not when somebody else decides!'

So that begs the question, does he have Obamanation by the short hairs, or does he have the direct approval of whomever is really running the Administration?  The answer is above my pay grade - but the last time I saw this degree of insolence and independence was when J Edgar Hoover had a dossier on everybody in power......

Here's a clip of the interview posted on MEDIAite:

This is a lead in to the next post!!!

Double-speak, even in Orwell's world -- is still double-speak!!!

".... O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave..."

As I've watched the news the last few days, with 24/7 coverage of gob'mint excess (and access) regarding our rights of privacy... those words in our national anthem came to mind. 

Is this still 'the land of the free??"

I have my opinion -- you have yours -- and if you are an owner of a small bid'ness, a taxpayer, or just a tax paying pawn in the current national scheme of takers and users... I'm sure you have another.  

But the best summation I could find on this topic was written by Theo Caldwell and published in the Opinion section of the Daily Caller yesterday... it looks a little long, but don't let that scare you.....  it reads easy.

Is America Free?

Flag day is the 14th of June.  The 4th of July is just around the corner -- a good time to reflect on such things.....

Friday, June 7, 2013

I am so relieved.............

CNN.com is running an article that points out that the fastest growing economy in the USA is...... (drum roll) .....

North Dakota!!!!

North Dakota grows five times faster than nation

@hargreavesCNN June 6, 2013: 3:20 PM ET

Propelled by a massive energy boom, North Dakota once again captured the title of the nation's hottest economy, with a growth rate five times the national average.

North Dakota's economy posted a 13.4% growth rate in 2012, according to a report released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That's nearly three times as fast as the number two state, Texas, and trounces the national average of 2.5%.

Why am I so happy? Because such a headline might catch the eye of all those good folks fleeing California, Colorado, Connecticut and New York and draw them to North Dakota...... instead of Texas.  We have enough Blue staters coming into Texas and trying to turn it into Nanny-Blue as well.

Head for North Dakota folks, their liquid gold in them thar hills!!

Every day it gets worse....!!

In my more than twenty years in the uniform of the USA, I occasionally ran into the squirrelly perfumed prince who was more concerned about his promotion record than his troops.. or even in common sense....   

But this story on Breitbart.com goes over the top!

Army Reprimands Soldier for Serving Chick-Fil-A at Private Party

A soldier who served Chick-fil-A sandwiches at a party he threw to honor the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and his promotion to Master Sergeant has received a letter of reprimand. 

by: AWR Hawkins 

The soldier received his promotion last summer, and since "it coincided with national controversy surrounding Chick-fil-A's support of traditional marriage," he decided to serve their sandwiches and celebrate DOMA while he was at it. 
According to a Fox News report, the invitation to the soldier's party read: "In honor of my promotion and in honor of the Defense of Marriage Act, I'm serving Chick-fil-A sandwiches at my promotion party."
In response, the military went so far as to put a letter of reprimand in the soldier's file and "an investigation was initiated to see if he had violated any policy." Chaplain Alliance Executive Director Ron Crews said there was even "talk of bringing judicial punishment against" the soldier for a time.
Although the promotion and the party took place last summer, this has turned into an seemingly endless saga that still has the soldier "embroiled in a legal battle." 
As Crews noted, DOMA is the law of the land, and has been since it was enacted under President Bill Clinton in 1996. For honoring that law and serving sandwiches from a business that supports it, a Master Sergeant's career has been imperiled. 


Those of us who stay connected the the US Military are painfully aware that the Pentagon Princes have started prosecuting or firing military chaplains that use such non-pc words as Jesus Christ, Son of God, and other such --- but whoda' thunk....

 They would persecute (not prosecute) a career enlisted NCO for serving Chik-Fil-A sandwiches - despite their association with unpopular stances in the liberal world, at his promotion party?   

 And like Mr Hawkins says -- DOMA is the LAW of the LAND!!!
 Lord save us before PC replaces foxholes.....

 
 

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Some of the cartoons from the Stilson Jarlsberg's Hope n' Change files need no comment --- today's is one of those.......

But just in case you have been drinking since memorial day and missed the news - click here and read it in the New York Post...... (click on the pic to make it easier to read)

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

.50 Caliber shot - 1000 yards -- standing - off hand...

This is not only a shot I never coulda done - it sure ain't on my 'Bucket List' of things to try!!  Go Rangers.... Hoooah!


Pogo was right -- way back in 1971.....

... I've been cogitating the current condition in this country and have come to the conclusion that Pogo was right 42 years ago when he said, "We have met the enemy and he is us!"

Let me walk you through my thoughts by the numbers:

1. The Constitution grants all legislative authority to the Congress. It directs the POTUS to execute all of that legislation.  It provides  NO legislative authority to Cabinet members, departments or the White House. Nor does it permit the POTUS to unilaterally decide which laws he will or will not enforce.

2. Since WWII, and particularly since the 50's, the Congress has created more and more departments and agencies and has delegated their legislative authority to those departments and agencies in the manner of promulgated regulation.  It has also delegated more and more authority to the POTUS with regard to the dispensing (read spending) of the taxpayer's dollars to the POTUS. While they shorten their own work weeks from six days to five to four to it's current three day week. The remaining four days are devoted to home visits, fund raising, baby kissing, and lobbyist butt kissing. 

3. Each election cycle, a full 90% of each of these congressmen and senators that choose to return for another term of perks and la dolce vita are re-elected by their home voters. Who will then spend the next two or six years decrying the congress -- it currently enjoys a miserable 29% approval rate among the citizens voters of America. (Who will send 90% of them back next year)

4. I rest my case.,, Pogo was right --- !!  When is the American electorate going to wake up and turn things around?

If you have a minute, click here to scroll quickly through a summary of the list of Departments and agencies, all manned by unionized, jobs for life, so called public service employees...... each of those sub-agencies and offices contain thousands more.  

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

June (and the White House Scandals) are busting out all over!!!

Yesterday, Monday, June 3rd, must have broken all records for the number of different scandals breaking out in Washington over the Obamanation administration....  From the IRS's handling of conservative groups - now added to by the breaking news about the IRS's muscling home builders across the nation on behalf of the Mob unions, the secretive e-mail accounts cabinet members and department heads are using  ....   wait a minute -- here is most of it summed up in one minute yesterday on the floor of the House of Representatives by Representative Jim Bridenstine.

 


Not a short shopping list for 'the most transparent and open' administration in American history, 'eh?

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Breaking news!! The inside scoop on what happened during the 'off the record' meetiing between Eric Holder and the lap dog press that were present...

From the Washington Post, via TownHall.com:


Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. pledged Thursday to take concrete steps to address concerns that the Justice Department has overreached in its leak investigations and said officials would seek procedural and possibly legislative changes to protect journalists’ First Amendment rights. Holder’s commitment came at a private meeting with news executives after criticism that the Justice Department had infringed on the news media in several high-profile leak investigations. Participants said he told them officials would revise guidelines for issuing subpoenas to obtain reporters’ phone records. The 90-minute meeting was attended by a small group of journalists after several news organizations objected to the Justice Department’s insistence that it be held off the record. The participants, however, reached an agreement with the Justice Department under which they could describe what occurred during the meeting in general terms...

Eric Holder
pledged to take "concrete steps" to address the actions of Eric Holder -- up to and (possibly) including backing legislative action that would curtail Eric Holder's ability to abuse Eric Holder's power.  What a guy.  Direct quotes would be priceless here, but those weren't allowed, of course.  Instead, the DOJ very magnanimously permitted reporters to offer "general" accounts of what was discussed. 


Now don't you feel better?

Obamanation's sins shouldn't be compared to Nixons -- there is no comparison.....

First and foremost -- there is the Watergate break-in....  Nixon was impeached by the House but resigned before he was tried by the Senate.  Not so much for the 3rd rate break-in of DNC headquarters, but for the cover up and lies that followed. Like Nixon-in-the-mirror said.. nobody died. 
Mirror, Mirror on the wall......

Secondly - there is the IRS playing political dirty tricks...  the BIG difference twixt Nixon and Obamanation's evils -- With Nixon, it was a member of the ruling elite spying on and investigating and auditing other members of the ruling elite who had the power to fight back.

With Obamanation's IRS  -- it's the ruling class spying on, investigating and generally harassing the ordinary law abiding citizens of the USA!   A big difference..  when we lose faith and confidence in our gob'mint -- anarchy is sure to follow -- or a very long line at the polls next year.

And finally, (I hope) the whole Benghazi fiasco! Bad enough that it happened, worse that the Oval Office was shut down for the night for reasons unknown -- just yet. But it is horrifying in the example the lack of follow-up portrays to the billion Muslims and other evil doers in the world.  

Attack our embassies, kill our ambassadors, no problem -- we won't retaliate or even call you a terrorist.........

Saturday, June 1, 2013

This being graduation month at high schools and colleges across the land.....

Hundreds of self-proclaimed motivators will stand in front these thousands of empty headed grads who are headed off into the real world without a clue... or benefit of any real world training by their lecturers over the past years....

Nine out of ten of these commencement speakers will advise: "Raise your head - look up  - follow your dreams!"

Only one in ten will say: 'Don't expect to live in house like your Dad's, earn a salary like Dad's, or drive a car like your Mom's the day after you graduate. Find a job - any decent job with a decent employer - and start learning about real life. The harder you work and the more valuable an employee you become - the sooner you will obtain those dreams of your youth."