Long, but worth the read

Go here.

Kinda make ya think, doesn't it?

Seeing as how there are all those states that are going against the federal government and it's use of the commerce clause to regulate thing that happen INSIDE a state, and the anti illegal immigrant bills such as the recently passed law in Arizona, one wonders how much relevance the above article might have.

What do we do, if and when?

Seriously.

If one were just the tiniest bit untrusting.....

of the government, and the Obama Administration in particular, one might wonder about the timing of the well fire and explosion and resulting oil spill off the Louisiana coast.

Just as the administration had announced that it was going to allow more offshore drilling, much to the wailing and weeping of the EnviroZombies, this accident happens.....

Fortuitous timing to get him out of the jam he was in between those citizens who need and want less expensive energy and those who are rabidly psychotic environmentalists (who, I might note, still travel in dinosaur burning, toxin spewing, Gaia destroying, automobiles,ships, and airplanes).

Now he has an excuse to put a halt to all new drilling (and even curtail current drilling) all in the name of environmental safety and security. He gets off the hook with the EnviroZombies and has an excuse to give to the rest of us proles.

Hey....If Bush the PuppetChimpMeister could kill 3k+/-  people for an excuse to go to war with Iraq (or so the theory goes) then why is this out of the question???

And it does tie his problem up in a nice neat bow, doesn't it???

I'm just sayin'

Interesting article

LINK

Worth reading and thinking about.

Question:

When did Congress get the power to demand the presence of a private citizen and the right to grill and question them for as long as they want? AFAIK, there isn't anything allowing that in my copy of the Constitution. They are LEGISLATORS, that is all.

It's not like they are rulers or anything. Nor is it like they have judicial power....

Today reminded me of the stories I heard about the McCarthy era.

No stereotypes here.....

Texas man sought in wife's chainsaw death


I mean, seriously?

"we speak english"

Damned straight.

I'd vote for him, on this issue alone. 

After all, road signs are in english.....

If you live here, and are taking this country for your home, then learn the dominant language. ENGLISH.

I am descended from immigrants. Many of my maternal relatives are hispanic. I am proud of what they have made for themselves in this country. They all speak english, even if only as a second language.

I worked for an italian gentleman when I was in high school. While it was obvious to anyone with one working ear that he and his wife had not been born and raised in the midwest, THEY SPOKE PASSABLE ENGLISH (at least until they got excited).

The point is, if you are taking this country as your home, you need to adapt to the country, not expect the country to adapt to you.

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

These words, on a plaque at the Statue of Liberty, which greeted those immigrants arriving at Ellis Island for processing, are part and parcel of what makes this country great. But nowhere does it say that you get an easy ride, nor freebies, nor that the country should learn to speak your language.  Many thousands of peoples from all over this world have arrived in the US, eager to make their lives in "America!". Few failed to learn at least a part of the language and culture. (at least those who were successful). They became part of the country, in part, because they had to learn the common language. And to the country's benefit, they amalgamated in a generation or two, to not be asian-american, or irish-american, or italian-american or whatever-american, but just plain american.

By allowing those folks who have arrived to not learn english, we fail them in their integration and amalgamation into citizens of this country.

ETA: related thoughts HERE. 

Note that he lives in Indiana, not a border state.

lies

SO they lied about the cost of the Health care bill. (yeh, I know, no shit?)

But here is proof that they knew they were lying.

Bastard socialists.

National guard? Sure

Seems the folks in charge in Chicago want more boots on the street to patrol the crime ridden areas. Hey! Lets use the National Guard! That way the Peoples Republik State of Illinois will have to pay for things.

Despite the fact that they fund fewer and fewer Chicago policemen every year, and instead spend more and more money on "social programs" and  handouts to minorities "entitlements" (I'd like to jam a stick in the eye of whoever made the word "entitlements" commonly used in that context, but I digress), the areas in question have fallen lower and lower on the civilized scale each year. Nor have the number of working folks increased, nor has the quantity of folks living at the poverty level decreased.

All those programs and handouts haven't materially resulted in a betterment for any of the people living in those areas, and have, if anything, resulted in even less civilized behavior from those residents.

Check out the rates of single parent households. Welfare is, if not THE problem, at least a significant one.

What no one in the media seems to bother to mention is the fact that all the money spent in liberal programs and social engineering is not returning any results. None, zero, nada. The problem is the people.

The issue in the south side of Chicago isn't anything more than a cultural one. Exacerbated by the so called leaders that the community elects over and over again to help themselves the citizens of the community with(generally) other peoples money. The areas have been bad since the '70s and in some cases, despite the massive amounts of money spent, are getting materially worse.

If the city needs policing, let the city hire and train policemen, rather than use National Guardsmen who, while no doubt good folks, aren't trained to be police. And let the city fund those same policemen, rather than hand out money in the vain attempt to buy civilized behavior and order, rather than expect someone else to pay for it.

Read SecondCityCop to find a policeman's perspective.

Just in case you haven't seen it yet::

Worth the view.

Go HERE for a good video.

I cannot figure out how to embed the video, so you'll have to follow the link.

HT: Walls of the city and Tam

Then why didn't he run as a socialist?

Al $harpton says that the American people voted for socialism when they voted for Obama.

Perhaps many of us knew that, and didn't vote for him (I was one of those) but many folks thought they were voting for "HopeEnChange" , but not for socialism.

Perhaps the Rev. $harpton knew something the Obama voters didn't.

HEH!

Via Insty...

Utopia

May 20th.

Draw Mohammed day.

While I mean no significant disrespect to muslims, neither do I think we should cower in fear because some radical islamist feels that he has the right to kill an infidel due to a perceived slight of Mohammed.

Therefore, I bring this to your attention. I will post the most funny, well done, satirical cartoon I can find here (make no mistake, if I could draw one, I would, but I have difficulty having my stick figures recognized as such, so I will reproduce someone else's artwork.

I invite the offended muslim to wage his jihadic war upon me. He might find me a more worthwhile adversary that the unarmed TheoVanGogh. (I shoot back).

Please, pass this forward to others. Let us all celebrate this day, if only to defuse and pull the fangs of the offended muslim which threatens violence so effectively.

Via SCC we get the story of the convicted murderer who ran out of appeals and is sentenced to death.
By firing squad.
By his choice.

And the liberal weenies are shitting in their panties because they are gonna shoot this guy rather than painlessly put him to sleep. Like a dog....in a humane manner.

As SCC says, and I agree...What about the damage he did to his victims?

This should be a punishment, and an incentive for others to NOT DO THE SAME. A disincentive to do similar crimes. The punishment should hurt, and should be scary.

Personally, I like the idea of public hangings. Within a year of the first conviction.  Fast track the appeal, and either find the accused not guilty go or hang him. Publicly. That will be a deterrent to others who might commit similar crimes.

YMMV

wonder if the local store can order

a few cases of this for me?

Might be interesting.

Sleight of hand

So if I give you a lot of money, and you give me as collateral part of your company.....Then I pay part of the money back  and the rest of the money is tied up in my stock whose value is determined by me......


Have you repaid my loan in full?

GM , the Obama administration, and, apparently the inept reporters think so.

$52 billion (yeah, BILLION) in loans. (from the US Government) plus 9+ billion from the Canadians.

They repaid 8.1 billion cash. You do the math.

Seems to me that they have a small issue to resolve before they can claim that the loans are repaid.

But then again, I am not a "nuanced" sort of guy like the reporters claim to be....

My training is as an engineer, where the math says what it says, and there are no phantom things like in finance.

So perhaps I am missing something. It would seem to me that there is somewhere on the order of $42 billion yet to be repaid (plus interest) yet to go before the debt is settled.

ETA: additional thoughts here. Take the time to read the comments.

Just an idea: Subliminal messages for freedom.

An interesting idea for a stealth campaign:

Inspired by THIS, The idea is to have a stamp made and stamp all of your currency. Then spend such currency normally.


Suggested messages:

Support your local TEA party.

Less governmnt.

Smaller government, lower taxes.

reclaim personal accountability.

Vote 'em all out.

etc.

Suggestions?

I am seriously thinking this would be an excellent stealth marketing campaign. People might not even notice it, but would, nonetheless, subliminally  still see the message.

Well, duh....

Seems that  no one really knows what the actual cost of the Screw With the Best Healthcare in the World Affordable HealthCare Act will be.

All the numbers presented were, well, realistic made up.

So everything that they lied to told us about Obamacare was just so much steaming excrement. And now that it is signed into law, the rest of us are supposed to swallow it.

Again: it is a good thing that dueling has gone out of style in this country, or the seconds of our senators and congresspersons would be very busy lately.

And dawn might be a less peaceful time of day.

The US in 20 or so years

Might well look like THIS.

Of course, that's only if we fail to bring government and debt under control, reign in the unions, and embark on protectionist trade policies.

In other words, if we re-elect Mr Obama and his minions in the senate and house, and allow them to continue their policies.

Hope&Change and all that folderol.



HT: Insty

This just in:

Iceland goes bankrupt, then it manages to set itself on fire. 

This has insurance scam written all over it.

Yeah. What he sayed

Hard to argue with.

Me, I think he is too mellow.


But then again, I tend to overreact.