While the Terrorists Belly Laugh, America Fumes & Cries

Update: Here is a link providing the answer for the question posed at the bottom of the article.

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Have the terrorists won another round against the American people? If you look at the results, I would say they have. How so? Let's answer this question with another question.

How many terrorists have the TSA caught with their porno-scanners and enhanced groping procedures? Are you ready for the grand total - zero! Not one terrorist has been caught. (But remember, this is government, performance results do not matter.)

How many innocent children, cancer survivors, and ladies wearing skirts been violated, and publicly humiliated with the porno-scanners and enhanced groping procedures? The answer to that is simple, just pick your favorite news channel and start counting the stories - they are everywhere.

The terrorists have got to be rolling around in their caves belly laughing this one out...while America lets their government literally violate innocent people. Again, how many terrorists have been caught? Zero.

Oh, by the way, if this is so good for the American people, shouldn't this be good enough for the politicians too? Are they standing in line, leading the way, or are they silent?

I thought this clip brought some common sense to the madness.

Cut the Fluff, the Fat, and the Bone

Across the nation, liberals and progressives have been sounding out a cry against balancing their budgets with proposed spending cuts. In the NYT yesterday, California (not the most fiscally brilliant State in the Union) was the latest to be highlighted with budget shortfall woes - again. As I read the Times' article, I had to shake my head in utter disgust at the fiscal illiteracy of some of California's politicians. Basically, while the State heads towards bankruptcy, which would then bankrupt the whole Union, California's politicians are squabbling like two and three year-olds all wanting to play with the same toy.

Now essentially there are two ways to settle budget shortfalls. You must cut spending, or increase revenues, which in a government setting, "increasing revenues" means raising taxes. (Unless you are the Federal Government, then you just print more money and devalue the currency.)

Option 1, Cut Spending in economically depressed times: Whether politicians like it or not, spending is the reason why there is a shortfall. If you don't spend money you don't have, you don't have a shortfall. Complicated...I know! The reality is simple, you can't have everything, and secondly, nothing is free. Of course the argument is that spending must occur because there are "essential services" that cannot be compromised. Says who? Again, you cannot have everything, and nothing is free. There are a lot of "essential services" that are nothing more than programs that mask the lack of personal responsibility in the citizenry and promise certain "classes" of people everything they want - all at the expense of debt, deficits, and budget shortfalls.

Option 2, Raise Taxes in economically depressed times: Of all the dumb things you hear politicians pontificate, this ranks at the top of non-brain usage. Let's demand that main street Americans give us more of their money. Never mind that main street Americans are trying to settle shortfalls in their own budgets because of the recession. That's right, let's take more wealth out of the struggling economy and give it to the idiots that produced the shortfalls in the first place! I'm sure they will get it right this time, right? Let's remind ourselves of something, it wasn't main street Americans that created this mess. It is the politicians that mismanaged the budget that created the mess, and now they expect those that had nothing to do with the mess to come in and clean it up? Wow, that is lunacy at it's best.

Unfortunately, while the social liberals and progressives fight against spending cuts, the budget keeps California on a steady march toward insolvency. The budget doesn't care who is from what party, who is rich and who is poor; the budget has no social progressive feelings. Did we not see that in Greece? The point is that unless politicians in California get their intellectual and fiscal act together, California is on track to being the next Greece styled meltdown.

Essentially it boils down to this; if you live beyond your means today, by default, you will live under your means tomorrow.

Universal Deathcare

Here is a good eye opener as to some of the reasons why Americans got rid of those that voted for Government Healthcare (Obamacare) in this last election. Yes, Americans understand for themselves what is good and what is bad.

So is this Government Healthcare good? By the time you watch this clip in it's entirety, you just may understand EXACTLY why the majority of Americans didn't want this from the start.

Until this monstrosity is repealed, don't get sick.

Miss the interview?

It is always most fascinating, especially in this age of soundbites and media spin, to hear a story first hand, straight from the source. I found the interview very honorable and befitting that of a President, and in a breath of fresh air, reminiscent of something we haven't seen in almost two years - Leadership. You can see the whole interview here.

Oh - and not once does Bush criticize his predecessor. It's too bad President Obama doesn't know how to exercise the same grace.

Part 1

We Noticed

Just prior to the elections, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was lamenting that in her view, "Democrats haven't necessarily gotten the credit they're due for the work they've done the last two years." In other words, the American people haven't paid enough attention to us, especially for how hard we have worked!

It appears, however, that America was paying attention to what Nancy Pelosi was working on so hard, and by extension, the Democrat Party in general. We hadn't forgotten about Nancy's pledge to "drain the swamp" of corruption and run the most ethical House of Representatives in all history.



We hadn't forgotten about about Nancy's pledge of "pay as you go, no new deficit spending" and "not burden them with mountains of debt."



We hadn't forgotten about all the hard work that goes into producing several thousand page legislative bills that require "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."



These are just three quick things that come to mind from over the last two years.

No, we hadn't forgotten how hard Nancy Pelosi and her gang worked to keep their word to us. We noticed. It's just too bad they didn't try harder, things might have been different today.

The American people might be gracious, but don't take us for stupid when we go to the polls.

Worth less than a free lunch?

Corrine Brown offers free meals for early voters.

There has been this trend going around in this election cycle of giving away free meals to voters. Might I add, to my knowledge, it's only been the Democrats doing this. The latest is Corrine Brown. So why do these incumbent Democrats feel the need to give away a free lunch to get their constituents to come vote?

The answer is simple. All of what they have accomplished up to this point isn't worth their own constituents time to come and bail them out. Think about it. If they would have accomplished something worth while, people would flock to re-elect them - but apparently that's not the case. So, the best they can muster is free lunch, which eventually will end up in the toilet. There is just nothing quite like incriminating yourself with your own actions.

Utter Hypocrisy-in-Chief

Weekly Address: Working Together on the Economy

As I read the transcript to the last President's Weekly Address, I had to ask myself just who this guy thinks he is, and who he thinks he is talking too. How the President could keep a straight face while giving this speech is indicative of the lack of respect he has for any American that thinks for themselves and/or has any cognitive abilities.

I have interjected my thoughts in italics throughout the President's speech. If you have ever seen someone yell at the TV, then hang on, because this might be considered a little bumpy by some.