When nuts fly planes into buildings to make a political statement it's terrorism plain and simple. Is that clear enough? Websters defines terrorism as "the practice of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets." I believe that Joe Stack was trying to coerce the government by his actions. Anyone disagree?
There is one thing this lowlife forgot, you've got to pay your taxes. Now, I think I pay too much to my Uncle in Washington every year as well as to the state, but until the tax code is reworked, I'm stuck. So is everyone else. I don't mind paying some tax and neither should anyone else. We need an infrastructure, a military and our elected officials should make a decent living, but when our money is mismanaged and our government does not live within it's means, then we should all be a bit peeved. But destroying buildings and killing people is not the answer.
Did Joey think that he was starting a revolution? Did he think that the people would rise up en masse and refuse to pay their taxes? If he did then he was crazier than anybody could ever know. According to his "manifesto", as the media calls it, he thought that this was his only way out. He refused to live up to his responsibility and now the way to get around it is to commit suicide. What a nut.
So now we have a family in mourning for the loss of a loved one who did nothing more than go to work that morning and plenty of people injured due to the actions of this amoral lunatic. I hope he rots in Hell. Joe Stack is no different than any of the Jihadist that have killed themselves for what is ultimately a political reason.
I guess Andy Warhol was right, everyone gets 15 minutes of fame. Maybe Andy should have included infamy as well.
The US tax code is too complicated. No one can understand it all. If the tax code was simplified so that most could understand it, including the director, I doubt the IRS would be so reviled. This has needed to happen for quite some time and I hope that someday soon an administration will get around to it.
We don't need the events in Austin to be repeated.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Bye Bye Evan Bayh
Well, another Democrat has a moment of clarity and decides not to run for re-election this year. Good. Evan Bayh always tried to paint himself as a "moderate" democrat or at least a fiscally conservative one. Both monikers are misleading at best. At least for this year. Bayh had an entire year to stand up against the Obama administration and he didn't do it. Bad move Evan. Now he has seen the writing on the wall and is getting out.
Bayh mentioned in his self serving speech that partisan politics are a big reason for his departure. Huh? I will say it again, the Dems had both houses and the White House and couldn't get their more liberal agenda through due to infighting. But when it came time to vote, Bayh was right there with the rest of the left-bots and voted for the things that Obama, Reid and Pelosi wanted. So his argument doesn't hold water.
Still, it's one down, 58 to go. I think this is going to be trend among Democratic Senators. At any time I fully expect Harry Reid (D-NV) to announce that he won't be running again. He shouldn't run anyway. He should save the money and the headaches and just retire. I know a few people in Nevada and all I hear from them is that Reid is toast come November. Maybe Obama could ensure a Reid defeat and go out there to campaign for good ol' Harry. Please.
Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson should reconsider their positions as well. Lately they both seem to be changing their collective tunes and spouting off a bit, but I think it's too little, too late. The people in this country have finally woken up to the dealings in Washington and we don't like what we see. I'm sure that these types of deals have been being made since the beginning of time in this country, but now we know how things are done.
I'm not just blaming Democrats here, Republicans share equally in this debacle. In my lifetime the presidents have been, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and now Obama. The deficits have gotten bigger every year as well as the national debt. It has got to stop before we drop over the cliff into oblivion. If it isn't too late already.
So yes, I am a member of the "throw the bums out" constituency. They all need to go. We need regular folks to go to Washington for us to get back on track. Fewer lawyers and more people that can read a spread sheet and a bottom line.
So bye, bye Evan Bayh and good riddance. Two terms was enough for the folks to see that you were actually a very liberal guy just waiting for your chance to show your true self. In a case of political expedience you decide to drop out before being voted out.
That's the only decent thing you've done since 1-20-09.
Bayh mentioned in his self serving speech that partisan politics are a big reason for his departure. Huh? I will say it again, the Dems had both houses and the White House and couldn't get their more liberal agenda through due to infighting. But when it came time to vote, Bayh was right there with the rest of the left-bots and voted for the things that Obama, Reid and Pelosi wanted. So his argument doesn't hold water.
Still, it's one down, 58 to go. I think this is going to be trend among Democratic Senators. At any time I fully expect Harry Reid (D-NV) to announce that he won't be running again. He shouldn't run anyway. He should save the money and the headaches and just retire. I know a few people in Nevada and all I hear from them is that Reid is toast come November. Maybe Obama could ensure a Reid defeat and go out there to campaign for good ol' Harry. Please.
Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson should reconsider their positions as well. Lately they both seem to be changing their collective tunes and spouting off a bit, but I think it's too little, too late. The people in this country have finally woken up to the dealings in Washington and we don't like what we see. I'm sure that these types of deals have been being made since the beginning of time in this country, but now we know how things are done.
I'm not just blaming Democrats here, Republicans share equally in this debacle. In my lifetime the presidents have been, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and now Obama. The deficits have gotten bigger every year as well as the national debt. It has got to stop before we drop over the cliff into oblivion. If it isn't too late already.
So yes, I am a member of the "throw the bums out" constituency. They all need to go. We need regular folks to go to Washington for us to get back on track. Fewer lawyers and more people that can read a spread sheet and a bottom line.
So bye, bye Evan Bayh and good riddance. Two terms was enough for the folks to see that you were actually a very liberal guy just waiting for your chance to show your true self. In a case of political expedience you decide to drop out before being voted out.
That's the only decent thing you've done since 1-20-09.
Monday, February 8, 2010
The Idiocy of the Global Warming Debate
When I walked into my bedroom last night preparing for bed, I heard that the TV was on. My wife was fast asleep. On the tube was a woman saying that it had been unusually cold in Georgia and Florida this winter as a direct result of global warming. WTF is that? It's been colder because of global warming? I wonder if this woman realizes just how stupid she sounded. Probably not.
But this is how the left has brainwashed their followers. Or should I say, this is how Al Gore makes money? What has the Wooden One made off of this lunacy? Isn't in the neighborhood of a hundred million ($100,000,000)? What a racket. OK, back to the brainwashing. The media has fueled this craze by pushing the far left agenda because the media itself is nothing more than a shill for the Democratic party. Obama says that their is global warming and all the little far left robots fall in line and start spouting the party line.
I would suggest that liberals start embracing the science that they so adore. Over the course of this planet's history it has heated up and cooled down on several occasions. The last ice age was about 12,000 years ago. In the period when the dinosaurs were at the zenith of their existence the world was actually a much hotter place than it is now. How do the warming nuts explain that? They can't, plain and simple.
So in other words, heating and cooling of the planet seems to happen on it's own. Wow, what a concept. Do the "warmers" (that's what I'm calling them from now on) realize this? Do they know that the earth's travels around the sun are not set in a specific orbit? That's right, the earth is not always 93 million (93,000,000) miles from the sun. At times the earth moves closer to the sun and then moves away. Right now the earth is on it's inward journey. That means we're getting closer to the sun. Or in other words, we will be getting warmer.
The warmers are concerned about the polar bears dying out. I get it, I don't like the idea either, but there have been times when there were no ice caps. I doubt we had polar bears then. The thing I'm getting to is that of all the species that have inhabited this planet, over 95% of them are extinct. Has the burning of fossil fuels been responsible for that? The warmers need to get a grip. And I don't mean onto their bongs.
A few years ago I took a cruise to Alaska. During this trip we went to Glacier Bay National Park. When European explorers first discovered this natural wonder, the glaciers reach the coast and emptied into the Pacific. Now it is quite a boat ride to get to the glaciers. I explicitly asked the naturalist guide if the glaciers had been receding since before of the industrial revolution of the 1880's. She told me that they have. In other words the glaciers were melting before man started spewing carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
Now Obama wants to have an agency to monitor global warming. He already has one, it's called NASA. Since in this years budget Obama has scrapped plans to send us back to the moon, NASA has been relegated to chart the world's temperature. Now I really don't care about going back to the moon without a plan for the next step, unless the astronauts land on July 20th again, but to make the agency nothing more than Obama's personal climate change watchdog is idiocy at best.
But that's what this president and his followers do best, idiocy.
But this is how the left has brainwashed their followers. Or should I say, this is how Al Gore makes money? What has the Wooden One made off of this lunacy? Isn't in the neighborhood of a hundred million ($100,000,000)? What a racket. OK, back to the brainwashing. The media has fueled this craze by pushing the far left agenda because the media itself is nothing more than a shill for the Democratic party. Obama says that their is global warming and all the little far left robots fall in line and start spouting the party line.
I would suggest that liberals start embracing the science that they so adore. Over the course of this planet's history it has heated up and cooled down on several occasions. The last ice age was about 12,000 years ago. In the period when the dinosaurs were at the zenith of their existence the world was actually a much hotter place than it is now. How do the warming nuts explain that? They can't, plain and simple.
So in other words, heating and cooling of the planet seems to happen on it's own. Wow, what a concept. Do the "warmers" (that's what I'm calling them from now on) realize this? Do they know that the earth's travels around the sun are not set in a specific orbit? That's right, the earth is not always 93 million (93,000,000) miles from the sun. At times the earth moves closer to the sun and then moves away. Right now the earth is on it's inward journey. That means we're getting closer to the sun. Or in other words, we will be getting warmer.
The warmers are concerned about the polar bears dying out. I get it, I don't like the idea either, but there have been times when there were no ice caps. I doubt we had polar bears then. The thing I'm getting to is that of all the species that have inhabited this planet, over 95% of them are extinct. Has the burning of fossil fuels been responsible for that? The warmers need to get a grip. And I don't mean onto their bongs.
A few years ago I took a cruise to Alaska. During this trip we went to Glacier Bay National Park. When European explorers first discovered this natural wonder, the glaciers reach the coast and emptied into the Pacific. Now it is quite a boat ride to get to the glaciers. I explicitly asked the naturalist guide if the glaciers had been receding since before of the industrial revolution of the 1880's. She told me that they have. In other words the glaciers were melting before man started spewing carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
Now Obama wants to have an agency to monitor global warming. He already has one, it's called NASA. Since in this years budget Obama has scrapped plans to send us back to the moon, NASA has been relegated to chart the world's temperature. Now I really don't care about going back to the moon without a plan for the next step, unless the astronauts land on July 20th again, but to make the agency nothing more than Obama's personal climate change watchdog is idiocy at best.
But that's what this president and his followers do best, idiocy.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
A Real Slow Learner
That's how Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman described President Obama after his latest comments using Vegas as a pejorative. It seems that Obama has a dislike for Sin City and has no problem letting it be known. Although I agree in principle with his statement, as the president Obama should know better than to single out a city such as Vegas that only exist because of tourism. His previous comments hurt the city and this one probably will too.
Believe it or not even Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) seems a bit miffed at Obama. I'm sure only after getting permission from the White House did Reid come out publicly in defense of the city. I've read an article or two about the situation and the comments seem to indicate that Reid is done as a senator. Obama is killing Reid's chances for re-election, not that the chances were good to begin with. I see that as a good thing. After all Reid has been there too long and he's a liberal democrat.
But the comments for Goodman come as a bit of a surprise. Goodman had spent his life as an attorney before turning to politics. He was a mob attorney. His list of high profile clients reads like a who's who of gangsters in Vegas. Plus Goodman is now an Independent after leaving the Democrat party. As a defense attorney he never really left the party, but that's only an opinion. Oh well, Goodman can represent Obama at his competency hearing. But still it took guts for Goodman to say what he did and I applaud him for it.
The other person who seems to have a case of "hoof in mouth" that is attached to the White House is Rahm Emanuel. It's not only because I don't care for the ballerina, it's just that someone in his position should chose his words more carefully. Was Emanuel trying to offend people with learning disabilities? I doubt it. Do I care that he used the "F" word? No. Anyone who knows me is aware of my ability to swear. So what's my problem with Rahm?
Let me tell you. Rahm is one of those guys with a bad case of little man syndrome. This guy must have taken a lot of flack when he was a kid and now thinks he can issue some payback because he thinks he is the BMOC. That's big man on campus. He's just a smarmy little punk with a huge chip on his shoulder. I think he should just dig his pretty pink tights out of wherever he is keeping them and go back to dancing Swan Lake.
What makes this gaffe even more egregious is he does this after The One made the crack about the Special Olympics on the Tonight Show last year. Does Rahm not remember this? Or maybe he just thinks that he can say anything he wants and no one can say anything to him. Maybe this will be a wake up call for Rahm and he will chose his words more carefully next time, but I hope not. I can only hope he continues to be the complete jerk he has been to this point and gives me and those like me more ammunition to use against him. No one is more deserving.
Of course I am critical of the One and his policies, but when he was elected I was hoping that he would gather intelligent people to be in his cabinet and staff. I have been seriously disappointed by his choices. Look at some of the people he has chosen, David Axlerod, Rahm Emanuel, Van Jones, Eric Holder and the ultimate pinhead Robert Gibbs. Poor choices all. One would have thought by now that Obama would have seen the error of his ways.
But no, Oscar Goodman is right, Obama is a slow learner. Do you think Rahm was talking about the president?
Believe it or not even Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) seems a bit miffed at Obama. I'm sure only after getting permission from the White House did Reid come out publicly in defense of the city. I've read an article or two about the situation and the comments seem to indicate that Reid is done as a senator. Obama is killing Reid's chances for re-election, not that the chances were good to begin with. I see that as a good thing. After all Reid has been there too long and he's a liberal democrat.
But the comments for Goodman come as a bit of a surprise. Goodman had spent his life as an attorney before turning to politics. He was a mob attorney. His list of high profile clients reads like a who's who of gangsters in Vegas. Plus Goodman is now an Independent after leaving the Democrat party. As a defense attorney he never really left the party, but that's only an opinion. Oh well, Goodman can represent Obama at his competency hearing. But still it took guts for Goodman to say what he did and I applaud him for it.
The other person who seems to have a case of "hoof in mouth" that is attached to the White House is Rahm Emanuel. It's not only because I don't care for the ballerina, it's just that someone in his position should chose his words more carefully. Was Emanuel trying to offend people with learning disabilities? I doubt it. Do I care that he used the "F" word? No. Anyone who knows me is aware of my ability to swear. So what's my problem with Rahm?
Let me tell you. Rahm is one of those guys with a bad case of little man syndrome. This guy must have taken a lot of flack when he was a kid and now thinks he can issue some payback because he thinks he is the BMOC. That's big man on campus. He's just a smarmy little punk with a huge chip on his shoulder. I think he should just dig his pretty pink tights out of wherever he is keeping them and go back to dancing Swan Lake.
What makes this gaffe even more egregious is he does this after The One made the crack about the Special Olympics on the Tonight Show last year. Does Rahm not remember this? Or maybe he just thinks that he can say anything he wants and no one can say anything to him. Maybe this will be a wake up call for Rahm and he will chose his words more carefully next time, but I hope not. I can only hope he continues to be the complete jerk he has been to this point and gives me and those like me more ammunition to use against him. No one is more deserving.
Of course I am critical of the One and his policies, but when he was elected I was hoping that he would gather intelligent people to be in his cabinet and staff. I have been seriously disappointed by his choices. Look at some of the people he has chosen, David Axlerod, Rahm Emanuel, Van Jones, Eric Holder and the ultimate pinhead Robert Gibbs. Poor choices all. One would have thought by now that Obama would have seen the error of his ways.
But no, Oscar Goodman is right, Obama is a slow learner. Do you think Rahm was talking about the president?
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