Dutch Treat

I thought I was done for the year. The Christmas spirit had taken over and I was content to let the world do it's collective thing and I would just keep my mouth shut or my fingers off the keyboard at least. But no, I am not afforded such a luxury and must once again put thought to virtual paper and bloviate about something or someone(s).

I barely mentioned in the last entry about the attempted bombing of the Delta flight from Holland to Detroit. After all the clown just burned his bottom a bit and probably got the snot kicked out of him and will get a lengthy stay in a federal bed and breakfast, complements of the American taxpayer. I think he should get executed, but who am I? Well, I'm the author of this blog and an American, that's who. And if anyone that has read a line of what I have written in the past knows is that I will voice that opinion. So here we go.

I gotta hand it to the Dutch version of the TSA. A lone person is allowed to purchase a one way ticket with cash, checks no luggage, has no passport and is allowed to get on an international flight. What else did this guy need to do to raise any kind of suspicion? Did he just need to tell the ticket agent, "I plan on blowing up the plane as it approaches Detroit?" It would seem so in my estimation.

So now the Dutch are implementing the full body scanner for every passenger. Great. Sounds a bit like closing the barn door after the horse is gone. Is that how that goes? I'm not sure anymore. But once again I digress. If someone in Dutchland had been paying attention then this would have never happened. This particular incident that is, not the fact that a Muslim terrorist wouldn't try something. The Dutch should just go back to growing tulips and the government running the brothels and not have an airport so this won't happen again.

Do you think I would let the Obama admin's reaction go unchecked? Hah! Not a chance. First Janet Napolitano was sacrificed on the Sunday morning talk shows. She was referred to as Incompetano by Mark Steyn the other day, I about crashed my car laughing at that one. First she says that the system worked. WTF? The system worked? I fail to see how, dear madam secretary. The next day she comes out and says that the system failed. Probably after getting the phone call from Barry in Hawaii. This only made her look more foolish than she normally does. Who was the waffle in the Doonsebury cartoon? I can't remember, but we have a new candidate.

Of course on Monday our president, looking righteously pissed by the way, interrupts his Hawaii vacation and gives an uninspired speech about an alleged attempt to bomb the plane by a "passenger" blah, blah, blah. Or in other words, the same ol' Obama song and dance about not jumping to conclusions and giving peace a chance. Sorry Mr. Pres., not good enough.

Then on Tuesday as more and more information has come out about the scumbag terrorist, the pres. once again gets his photo op and gives a more impassioned speech about how "his" ordered review of the incident would make things better and how we would learn how to thwart this type of incident in the future. Did he read this off a teleprompter? I think so. Wow Barry, what a leader you have become.

Don't we have safeguards in place to do this anyway? I think we do, but the folks working security at the airports around the world need to quit dropping the ball. How in the hell does Barry think that what we do here will stop a motivated terrorist scumbag from flying in from another country? It won't as the Christmas Day incident proves. Quit grandstanding.

Besides I think we get to lay this one at the feet of our president. Didn't the father of this lowlife call the US Embassy in Nigeria and tell that he feared his son was now a terror threat? I think so. Wasn't this guy on a terror watch list? Yep. Then how in the hell did he get a visa to enter the US? Of course it was because of the fact that since Obama took office the whole world loves us now and there is no need to worry about terrorist.

Or as Pinhead in Chief Robert Gibbs said during his Sunday morning interview, there are over 500,00o people on that list, how can they watch them all?

The Day After Christmas

Well, I tried writing a witty holiday poem along the lines of "The Night Before Christmas" or whatever it's called, but failed miserably. So I guess I'll have to use my usual wry, dry, morose and sardonic style of writing. Who am I kidding? It's also the way I speak. So let's get this year over with and on with the new. So with what might be the last post of the year, let's get on with it.

Yesterday was Christmas day, just in case anyone wasn't paying attention, and what was one of our many presents? How about the terrorist trying to blow up the plane from Amsterdam to Detroit? It would seem that this scumbag didn't get the message that this was supposed to be the day of peace on earth and good will towards men. With that being said, why didn't the passengers and crew just throw this guy out of plane? Sounds a lot better to me than keeping him in jail for the next 20 years or so. Or maybe we're just trying to make sure that Scott Fenstermaker gets a new client.

Speaking of good ol' Scott, he still hasn't answered my e-mail. I'm really not too surprised. After all I did call him a pinhead. Most certainly an overly kind remark coming from me. But now it seems that he has proven me correct. He did say that he welcomed all questions and that he would answer them. So now that he hasn't he has been elevated to pinhead first class status. I don't care much for folks that don't do what they say they will.

Did the Senate vote on their version of the health care reform bill on X-Mas eve? I don't know, I wasn't paying attention. I was too busy with my family. As you might imagine I was in the kitchen cooking for the 19 people we had for dinner. Then we had the organized chaos of the opening of the presents for the eight kids that were here. What a night! So if anyone knows what the government may have given us, please let me know.

If our learned leaders in Washington did continue down this path to a newer version of communism then I had better get into shape fast. Right now I consider myself to be in shape, round is a shape. But I mean I need to get into good shape. That means losing about 15-20 pounds or at least 3-4 inches around my mid section. I hope that I have all the surgeries out of the way for a while so I don't have to count on the government for that.

The reason I seemed concerned all of a sudden about my weight is that on the night of the 23rd my wife's sister had a party at her house. Ten piece big band, catered chow, the whole nine yards. Being that I don't mind dressing up for a party I put on my best suit and a terrific tie. It has a picture of the top half of the Grinch's head and a caption above that reads, "Your a mean one Mr. Grinch." I love that tie. But I digress. As I attempted to button the jacket I noticed that the bottom half of my belly was sticking out. I'm used to the jacket being too small when I'm wearing a gun either on my hip or in a shoulder holster, but not when I'm unarmed. So it appears that the holiday season has been very good to me. And bad for my wardrobe.

In this time of economic hardship brought on by the greed of the banks and the rest of the plutocracy in Washington, I hope that you had an enjoyable holiday season as I did. The next year or three will undoubtedly bring us more trials and tribulations, but we as a people will pull through. Be ye liberal or conservative, we will old our nation together no matter what Comrade Obama and the rest of his ilk have in store for us.

So be brave, the next elections are only 11 months away. This new wave of conservancy will prevail and America will be back on track to take our place as the world's leader in all categories. Those that are disappointed in our system or just pissed at the fact that Obama isn't able to take this country as far left as they want, or that he wants, can go ahead and move to France or Norway or where ever the hell they want to go.

They don't deserve us anyway.

How Many DUI's is Enough?

Massachusetts State Senator Anthony Gallucio (D) got a get out of jail free card earlier this week from a friendly judge as he was given a slap on the wrist for his third DUI conviction. This one was a hit and run injury accident. Wow. The folks in Mass. really know how to pick 'em, don't they?

Surprisingly enough even the one of the local papers is talking smack about this career drunk. As well they should if you ask me. Anyone that hasn't been living under a rock for the last 30 years or so has probably heard that booze and cars don't mix well. People have been known to get hurt because of the combining of these two items and the police take a dim view of this particular action.

As I mentioned this is Tony G's third time at the defense table for the same reason. I don't think he quite gets it, do you? If the guy really cared about not drinking and driving ever again, he just wouldn't. It's really that simple. If you drink, don't drive. Maybe a representative from MADD should be with him at all times. If not that, then how about one of those devices that you have to blow a breath sample into before your car will start? How would that look? Can you imagine this, after a hard day doing whatever it is that state senators do, jumping into the family wagon and blowing into a tube before you can go home. It might be a bit embarrassing for Tony, but who cares?

Sure I live in Utah, so why should I care? Well, for starters I see this not only as another example of do as I say not as I do, but as another member of the elitist elected getting away with something that most of us would get thrown in jail for. Here in Utah this carries a punishment of up to a year in jail and a hefty fine. This guy gets house arrest for a few months. Sure he loses his license for five years, but will that stop him from driving? I doubt it.

When this drunk comes up for re-election I would hope that the people in Mass. (or en masse if you will) pay attention to what Big Tony has accomplished and pick someone with some personal discipline to be the next state senator. I know this is just a pipe dream. After all how many times did Ted Kennedy get elected to the US Senate after killing Mary Jo Kopechne?

Change you can believe in from the Democratic party.

To Agree in Theory With Howard Dean

Did I really just entitle this piece that? I guess I did, but why? Well, it's because he wants to kill the health care reform bill. Good for him. Let's not kid ourselves here though, Dr. Dean and I, along with the rest of the people in their right minds, don't agree at all on why.

Dean is as far left as you can get without being labeled a commie and he doesn't think the bill goes far enough. You gotta be kidding me. $1 Trillion in spending, taxing us into poverty and the decimation of whats left of our economy and he thinks it's not enough. Did he write himself a prescription for medical marijuana? I doubt it, but it sounds to me like he might have.

Getting rid of this piece of crap legislation is priority number one for the folks with a brain. Or at least it better be. I don't care how much the left is willing to cut out of the bill, it just needs to be dumped until after the next election cycle. If the American people then think that this issue needs to be revisited then we can look at it then. Notice how I think that after the next election conservatives will be in charge, not the loony left.

And while we're on the subject of the loony left, Dean's remarks are typical of how the far left is chapped at Obama. They seem to think that he has given in the Republicans by getting rid of abortion, the public option and the lowering of the age to buy into medicare. They seem to think that if this is going to be the case then don't do anything. Finally a moment of clarity from the left. Too bad it's not for the right reasons.

How strange have things in this country become when the far left is in agreement with the conservative folks? Pretty dang strange if you ask me. There are some that say that this is only a ploy by the current administration to show that Obama is really a centrist and not the far left radical that he is. I don't buy it, Obama is that far left right along with Dean and the nuts at the Huffington Post and the Daily Kos.

But as crazy as this sounds, I agree with the far left kooks that the entire process needs to be scrapped. We don't agree as to why, but politics does make strange bed fellows on occasion. Unfortunately I don't think that this bill will be tossed out with yesterday's garbage and a watered down version of reform will be passed. Then the far left can start to work with Obama to get in through the back door that which wouldn't fit in the front.

I can only hope that the people of this country are paying attention and can vote all these folks out of office next November. At least those that vote for any version of this ridiculous bill.