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Twelve days of Holiday

2011-12-24T00:53:00.000-08:00

Sing this to the 12 days of Christmas:
On the FIRST DAY of Holiday Obama gave to me, a book by Saul Alinsky.
On the SECOND DAY of Holiday Obama gave to me, 2 trillion in taxes and a book by Saul Alynsky.
On the 3rd day of Holiday my leader gave to me, 3 Canadian Busses, 2 more trillion in taxes and a book by Saul Alynsky.
On the fourth day of Holiday my leader said to me "Uh, uh, uh Uh uh, um uh." 3 Canadian Busses another 2 trillion in taxes while he spends 17 days in Hawaii paid for by me.
On the FIFTH DAY of Holiday, Obama said to me "I'll lower the seas". Um huh uh , 3 Canadian Busses, 2 trillion in taxes,
and a book by a radical Communist/Marxist community organizer.

On the 6th day of Holiday we're not a Christian nation, No more prayer breakfasts, ENDORSES Ground Zero Moooooooosque, Quickly lights the entire Menorah, three photo ops with Chavez, 60,000 Muslims granted instant citizenship, and a book by Saul Alinsky.

On the 7th day of Holiday Obama gave to me..... 7 more unaccountable Czars, 600 missiles fired into Israel, uh, Cinco de Quatrooooooooooo! 4 Puffs of marajuana, 3 Canadian Busses, Henrietta Hughes is still struggling and a book by Saul Alinsky.

On the 8th day of Holiday Obama called Matt Lauer "Tim" 8 times, there were 7 times that he said Corpse-man , 6 Black Panthers acquitted because they are black and for no other reason, HE TOOOOOASTS to the Queeeeeeeeeeeen incorrectly. Four more rounds of golf, three billion grant to Solyndra, 200 missiles fired on Israel, and Class Warfare taught by Saul Alinsky...(those darned corporate jets)

On the 9th day of Holiday the teleprompter broke:

On the 10th day of Holiday our Commander in Chief makes a gaffe: Calls Wyffels Hybrids "Waffles", Claims he's also Irish, Confuses Kansas and Texas, He's such an elegant speaker,
you can REDUCE your healthcare premiums by 3000%!!!!!!!!!!!!! Makes fun of cripples on Jay Leno, Names a dead medal of honor recipient as living, Kanye West is an ass, and Weezy is a character on Sanford and Son. (I'm, uh, coming home, uh, Weezy. It's a big one!)

On the 11th day of Holiday Obama is mocked on Turkish TV and Putin calls him an idiot, Korea launches missiles, God Damn America that's in the bible, Kinetic military action, promises to close Gitmo, Arab Spring is rising, FIVE TRAMPLED IN A VOUCHER STAMPEEEEEEEEDE. Obamacare is tanking, Starts 3 wars, Blames mistakes on Bush, and a book by Saul Alinksy.

On the 12th day of Holiday our leader gave to me: a lawsuit against Arizona, a flip-flop on Mubarak, A birth certificate in PDF form with many individual separate layers, he walked away from debt talks, turned a memorial for those killed by Jared Loughner into a campaign stop, lost a freaking drone, skipped Endowed by our Creator, Occupiers are cool, NASA is now for muslim outreach, messes up the oath of office, electricity costs necessarily skyrocket,

offends every true Catholic with his stance on abortion, keeps on smoking, does a 180 on Sudan and the Darfur genocide, Muslim prayers are beautiful, Grants 1,000+ waivers for healthcare premiums, AIG is evil, Sharia law is growing, He loves Kominsky park,

Credit rating downgraded, Claims he's the 4th best president, Makes fun of Nancy Reagan when it was really Hillary who actually channeled, Bankrupts coal power plants, he fights for money for Black Farmers who don't exist, hides all his school records, pushes for sex-ed for 4th graders, financial and housing crisis meltdown, repeals Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell",

skirts the constitution, takes full credit for Osama's murder even though water boarding made it happen, meanwhile the entire Navy Seal Team is betrayed and killed,
throws Israel under the bus, Kensyian economics, Mexicans are the true Americans, Fast and Furious,

(one could just go on and on) STEALS 500 BILLION from Medicaaaaaaare, Michigan's in the toilet, just inflate your tires, put the blame on Bush, and try to find a part-time job in this economy. And God bless us, every one.
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South Carolina bill is a strategic move

2011-02-01T12:02:00.000-08:00

We learned today that five lawmakers from South Dakota have introduced a bill that will require all SC residents to carry a firearm "sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense" within six months of turning 21. Republican Hal Wick is supporting the silly bill knowing full well that it will not pass the litmus test of common sense and will be "killed" soon.

Unphased, Mr. Wick said “Do I or the other cosponsors believe that the State of South Dakota can require citizens to buy firearms? Of course not. But at the same time, we do not believe the federal government can order every citizen to buy health insurance."

Why is this considered a strategic move? With the recent developments in Florida with a district Judge's ruling that Obamacare was unconstitutional because it forces people to purchase something, Mr. Wick has deftly added to the hurdles that anyone opposing U.S. District Judge's Robert Vinson's ruling has to take into account. After the SC bill is deemed unconstitutional, it is simply a matter of connecting the dots to show that Obamacare is entirely and utterly unconstitutional because it does the same silly thing.

No one should be forced by the government to buy anything and people have made this point to no avail. Now, they have to face the fact that when the exact same law is rejected in South Carolina on constitutional grounds, it can, should and will be also deemed unconstitutional in Florida.

3 steps to take to avoid TSA patdowns. IMPORTANT INFORMATION

2010-11-18T12:29:00.000-08:00

Step One: When going through TSA security remove ALL metal objects from your person.
Time and time again I see people getting a free grope from security because they forgot to remove change from their pockets or take off their watch. Step One: simple. Take off your metal and keep your dignity.

Step Two: Avoid 20th century medical advances.
Don't have any knee operations, hip replacements, or ever break a bone etc. because this can result in titanium screws and pins, metal skull plates, artificial heart valves etc. which will promptly result in a TSA love pat scenario. Step two: simple. Avoid modern healthcare or your naked image may be leaked to the internet.

Step Three: Don't fly to or from an American destination.
Most important to realize is that the Obama administration influences TSA's operations via terror threat security levels and by throwing the most effective screening method out the window: ie- profiling. Therefore flights within the US will be more subject to TSA's whims than other countries. Step Three: Abandon your country or you may become a sexual assault victim.

In Hamburg, Germany (terminal 2) the line for the naked scan was optional and many people clamored for the line out of curiosity. Germans typically are also devoid of any hang ups about public displays of nudity as seen by their public pools and parks. Nudity is a way of life here for these conservative, God-fearing travelers. With out worry of profiling accusations (because Germany is relatively free from successful terror attacks) coupled with their love for exposing themselves, you should be able to avoid getting the ol' slap and tickle if you fly here.

Here's how I put these three steps to good use to avoid the TSA screener I would like to lovingly refer to as Big Gay Al.
Flying from Hamburg's Terminal 2 today to the lovely city of Munich (Step 3) I recounted how lucky I was not to have had any need for modern medical treatments during my lifetime that would have left metal in my body (Step 2). As I walked past the optional bodyscan line touted as being faster, I saw the poor sod getting scanned multiple times because in his induced rushed state he kept putting his hands down too soon and apparently blurred the image. When they finally got him to stand still long enough for a good scan he probably had absorbed enough radiation to transform into the Hulk. *citation needed

I stepped into the line with the regular metal detector and saw a very chunky German guy with frosted blond highlights, an ear ring and his ID card on a bright purple lanyard as he eyed the potential rub down clients. I removed everything down to my button front shirt, jeans, socks and a smile (Step 1) and placed my articles on the conveyor. Big Gay Al just had the lovely opportunity to cop a feel or four with the two guys ahead of me who had several necklaces each, belts, shoes, change, etc. on their person. I was thinking, 'I wonder if I needed a pat check if it were possible to request a hetero-patter' but I figured the very audacity of asking might land me on a watch list.

He snapped his unchanged rubber glove as his eyes gave me a dilated double take and said "Nächste, bitte!" He motioned with two fingers for me to step through and I knew that he could give me a rub-dub wham-bam thank-you-ma'am based on his own discretion anyway, despite my efforts to follow the three Steps. To his apparent dismay not a single warning light went off. "Danke schön." he sighed as he pointed for me to collect my belongings.

The end.

American Hero

2010-10-15T02:20:00.000-07:00

Dear occasional reader and 4 followers!
I have poured my heart and time into a short video that will help GET OUT THE VOTE on Nov. 2. I made this with a slight propogandist take on the whole first few months of the Obama White House, not that Obama needs much help sinking his own ship but my subtle pushes might help his ship sink faster.

This is the vein of a movie trailer inspired by Don LaFontaine (RIP) who did the voice overs for thousands of movie trailers and coined the phrase "In a world...", "This summer!", "One man", "Now more than ever!" etc. It was made entirely with silly windows movie maker and I used a crappy digital recorder to put my voice on there. I hope you enjoy this movie trailer, starring an American Hero.

I've promoted this on twitter via @mastadonarmy. Please follow!

RACIST, GUN TOTING HATERS

2010-05-10T07:07:00.000-07:00

A Democratic friend on Facebook posted this story that calls Tea Partiers RACIST, GUN TOTING HATERS.

Here's the post

That points to the original blog by Tim Wise.

If you are outraged by Tim's backwards comments please go to his comments area and TELL HIIM.

The following is my response to my friend on FB.

That article is misguided on so many points. Half truths and blatant lies about the tea party, whose grass roots slogan is "not racist, not violent and no longer silent!" This revolution that encompasses people from all walks of life has NOTHING to do with race as the premise of this article suggests. If anyone would actually tune into Limbaugh ... See Moreyou could see for yourself. There has been ZERO racial lines or hatred coming from the right. A few crazies present themselves in any mix and there are just as many coming from the left these days.

There was no spitting or name calling. That was disproven and retracted. Guns on the capital was to promote the second amendment, not to storm the place. Dan Rather said "Obama couldn't sell watermellons off the back of a truck on the highway even if state troopers were flagging down traffic" and he got a free pass for that. If any one from the right actually said anything that blatant it would be front page news for a month! The other "hatred" points listed were not attributed to a way of thinking or a tide of general sentiment coming from any more than one person. I don't know about Pat and Ted specificaly but it certainly does not sum up how "I" feel.

Our problem with Obama is that he is creating a welfare state at the expense of every working class family. The tea party folks only have one goal- vote in Nov. - and the Democrats are very scared. Stirring up racial hatred when there is none is a sign of that, and I wouldn't fall for it if I were black, white, latino, turkish, etc.

Conservative story ~ A Family Business Saga

2010-05-05T12:44:00.000-07:00

This inspiring story from a friend of mine is a great teachable moment. It shows what true American grit is and how hard working families are what make up this great country of ours. One thing I would like to add: Even if grandpa Valkema would have known how our President treats small businessmen today he wouldn't have changed his family's momentous and arduous journey one bit.

Please enjoy.

Hello Friends,

This email is quite long and I'll understand if you don't want to read it right now. Print it out and save it for a Sunday afternoon when you're doing nothing and would like to know what happened to one "small business" that was once successful.

This story could have been written by any "small business". It surely could have been written by my family's "small business" (it wasn't) which of the whole family, only my brother, Steve, has the heart to continue trying to keep alive. Steve owns and runs a few of the old tire stores of what was once 17 tires stores throughout western and central Michigan.

My father's father, my Opa Valkema, knew the rubber business pretty well in the northern section of the Netherlands.  World War II ravaged everything especially all business in this northern section of the Netherlands (Friesland and Groningen). When the war was finally over (let me tell you, if you want some stories about barely being able to keep soul and body together, I've heard many from my dad and his family, but that's for another email) since my dad's family had "lost it all", and because they saw the clouds of abject socialism on the horizon, they looked for a place to go where the fruits of their own labors would be their own to enjoy. Socialism really started to take over the thinking of the people of the Netherlands earlier in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, but when the war was over, it was a perfect time for the socialists to say that the only way to rebuild the nation was through complete and abject Marxist philosophies.

So, when grandpa Valkema and his family immigrated to the United States after WWII, he settled in Holland, Michigan. But what's more is that he was an entrepreneur who knew he had the skills and desire to be successful, which is the reason why they immigrated in the first place.  He had the ability to work smart and hard and to do it for his own purposes, not his neighbor's. Don't get me wrong, no one helped their neighbors more than the Valkema Family both in Leens, Groningen or in Michigan. But the difference, at least to my grandpa, was that in America it was not compulsory to give what you had earned to the state for it to give to others who had not worked for it.

After landing on the shores of the "land of opportunity" he started up a tire store in downtown Holland, Michigan. A couple years later he went on to start up another one in Grand Haven, Michigan. Then came Spring Lake, Fennville, South Haven, Zeeland, Wyoming, Grandville, and so forth and so on. He started up one by one, each of the 17 small town tire stores throughout the state was started and run with the hard work of its founder, Willem Valkema and the crews he'd put together. He labored hard to make each of them successful. People thought my grandparents were very rich, because they saw all the employee Bill Valkema had, the beautiful home he lived in on the lake in Holland where the Valkemas would host an annual summer picnic for all the tire store employees, and the nice car he drove (Opa Valkema was a "Cadillac man", while his brother-in-law, Cornie, was a "Studebaker man"). What they didn't understand is that no one else worked harder for that money and put their lives and fortunes on the limb in order to make those tire stores successful. At the end of each year, Bill Valkema had an adequate income, the good feeling that he had worked as hard and smartly as he possibly could, and employees who had a home and food on their tables, all as the "fruits" of their own and his labors.

What happened to those tire stores? As Michigan's economy continued to grow and as the automobile industry continued to be very successful, so did the tire stores, which also served as mechanic garages. Opa Valkema had invented a special way to produce new tires from old tire casings. "Recap tires" as they were called then, were very unreliable in that there wasn't a good way to keep the new rubber "crown" (treads) on the old tire casing. Grandpa worked tirelessly on developing a process that would "hot mold" the new treads in a special machine onto the old bias ply (radials had not been invented yet) casings. A few of the stores all had a special area where the recap tires were produced. It was a regular industry and employed hundreds of people throughout the small towns of western and central Michigan.

No one can really say who was at fault for the tire businesses to start to decline in their sales and bottom lines.  But as the radial tire was invented in the mid-1960s which used a totally different kind of ply technology in the casings, the business climate in Michigan also started to change. It seems as if Detroit and the big auto makers really stopped rewarding hard work, smart decisions, and a true "day's pay for a day's worth of work". That all had an effect on all the industries in Michigan. As organized labor unions in the big automobile plants realized they could get away with getting more concessions from the management to "dumb down" both the work ethic and ability to work smart and hard, so this type of thinking also started to seep into the small business atmosphere throughout Michigan. The Big Three, its labor unions and management teams all kept trying to get more and more and more out of the consumers. Management sat across the negotiation tables from Organized Labor and said "yes" to the contracts that would divvy up even more of the bottom line of the Owners and Stockholders.

More taxes were levied on small businesses and the regulations started to really take over in the state. The politicians in Lansing started to realize that they could get "in" on all this and started making decisions that were only one sided and would not so much help the employers but only help the "workers", and of course, them. The whole thought that business was gouging the worker started to take over throughout Michigan. Laws to protect the Workers were enacted because everyone thought they knew that the Owners were only out to get the Small Guys and the Workers.

My grandpa started to feel very uneasy as if he had already been through this before as a young man in the Netherlands. He stopped putting "his all" into the running and success of his tire businesses.   After all, he was seeing much less "fruit" for his labors at the end of the year. One by one he started to make the decision that a previous year's receipts for a certain store didn't really make it worthwhile to keep that store open anymore. Workers were laid off and the store would be boarded up. My grandpa was also getting older and didn't need the hassle that the State of Michigan was making it to keep businesses open. Grandpa would rather go to Arizona for the winter with his lovely wife, Anna Mae, than work through the winter to oversee his "tire empire".

Then came his decision to totally retire from the business and travel between Arizona or Florida and Michigan for the seasons. My Uncle Bill took over the running of the family businesses, as my father had taken the route of Christian ministry and gave his right to the business up when grandpa had helped to paid dad's way through college and seminary. Nothing against my Uncle Bill, but he was a playboy and enjoyed the fun aspect of it as much as the hard work aspect. With Michigan's continuing unfriendly attitude to small business climate, more stores had to be boarded up. Then Uncle Bill died in the mid-1980s leaving the responsibility to running the tire businesses to my dad again. Dad retired from over 35 years in public Christian ministry in order to try to run the tire stores again. Dad was also a hard worker but just didn't have the "heart" literally (he had a bad heart and ended up dying having a heart transplant in 1999) to keep all the rest of the tire stores open and employing people and selling tires to the consumers of Michigan. It was so difficult to continue keeping ahead of the new business laws, taxes and regulations in Michigan. So, rather than try to fight against the government and its onerous to "small business" thinking, all but three of the stores were sold.

My younger brother, Steve, started working for the Valkema owned Riverside Tire Company back when he was in his early teens. He learned every aspect of the tire business including the old tire recap production system that my grandfather had invented (by then, they had invented a way to recap radial tires as well as bias ply tires). Steve never had it easy as anyone who has ever worked for their "Dutch father" understands. I really respect and honor by brother, Steve, as he has always wanted keep the 3 generation family business intact. However, he now understands how hard the State of Michigan has made it for those "small businesses" to stay ... in business. I have even heard rumblings from Steve about letting all that was left go and just closing shop one last time. He continues to say how difficult Michigan has made it for all "small businesses" and how at the end of the year the amount of money in his own pocket just doesn't seem to justify all the hard labor he has put in through the year.   Steve even showed me his 2009 business accountant yearly statement. I was totally shocked that my brother could even keep food on his family's table for such a small amount.

What I am really trying to say through this long email, my friends, is that we can't continue to allow our Federal and State government's to take more and more out of our "bottom lines" and to not reign in frivolous government deficit spending. The fruits of our labors will not be enough for us to decide to stay in the business. I continue to maintain that taxpayers are like water - we will find the path of least resistance to the center of lowest gravity, "gravity" being amount of taxation. We Midwesterners see it every day.   Here in Illinois every day I hear about more families and wealthy individuals who have looked at the amount of tax they pay to the state and local government, and then end up deciding to move to one of those southern states where there is no personal income tax. This last July 3rd when I was transferring my legal residency to Indiana where I have a home in Long Beach, IN, and where the business climate is a whole lot friendlier, I was in the Bureau of Motor Vehicles getting an Indiana driver's license. I asked the other 8 people getting their licenses or state ID's if I could ask them a question and take a straw poll, if you will. Out of the 9 of us there, only one person was renewing their Indiana driver's license. The rest of us were transferring our legal residency from another surrounding state. Michiganders, Illinoisans, and Buckeyes, you better tell your state government officials if they don't really start looking out for all their citizen's best interest; they may not have a constituency to govern over any more.

Now with the Federal government poised to pass the largest national takeover of a private industry tomorrow afternoon, I am left even wondering about my forefather's decision to come to what they thought at the time was the "Land of Opportunity". If my opa and father only knew what would eventually become of their adopted homeland, perhaps even they might have rethought such a momentous and arduous journey. I am left, as a first generation American, wondering if I too will someday soon look over the horizon seeing the clouds of the insidious ideologies of Marxist thought and decide to repatriate somewhere where my personal property and the fruits of my own labors will be allowed by my government for me to enjoy.

I hope I haven't bored you to tears and that you'll still call me "friend".

What Health Care is like ~ from a conservative friend here in Germany

2010-05-03T07:53:00.000-07:00

Here's this insider's view from behind German lines.

I don't know where to start. The German health care system is so terrible compared to the US in service, prescriptions, things that make the customer feel comfortable, etc. We've been over here for 5 years and feel so abused by the system at times. It could just be our American intuitiveness to question the system vs. the German mentality to take what is handed you, but most Germans will say they love it but only to an extent, while we say we despise most of it. It's "Zis is how we do singz arount hier" mentality based on regulations. The one good thing is that it is *mandatory* to have insurance whether Public (socialized) or Private (like the US but still working in the socialized system).

What's bad for singers is the fact that when you have green snot and a head full of cold they send you home for 2-3 days to see if you can ride it out. Then after suffering and it not getting better, they begin to reluctantly dole out medicine, that is after you wait each time in the doc's office for 3 hours next to coughing people in a room with no open windows, doors and no air conditioning. (No one has AC- not even hospitals, because they feel that a draft will make you sick.) After several nasal infections due to flying or being in closed spaces this type of thing gets really old.

You have to qualify for Private health insurance based solely on your income (a regulation) and if you accidentally have Public and want to switch to Private you have to pay at least 4 years into the Public system before you are allowed to switch (another regulation). Private insurance varies but some benefits outweigh others. Now that we qualify we might switch this year but haven't had the time to investigate it fully yet. Germany's Public insurance in connection with the Travel Insurance only lets you be covered for 6 weeks out of the country at a time (another regulation). Public doctors are only open from Monday - Thursday from 9 - 1 and 4 - 6 and Fridays from 10 - 1. If you have Public Insurance and are sick on the weekend you have to wait till Monday morning, call the public doctor that makes house calls or go to the emergency room- so please plan to be sick during regular business hours. Most people just wait till Monday because then they get to take off from work and stand a good chance of being written out sick for 3 days.

US medicine available is based on the free enterprise market of competing- like Claritin for example. When it came out it was the best thing and it made it's company a lot of money. Several years later there are knock-offs and you can buy many Claritin type drugs for cheap- but you can at least buy them. In Germany, there is no thriving competition for your Euro because all pharmaceutical companies are government regulated. No companies stand to profit from making a great nasal spray so no one tries and you end up with no meds available. It took a stormy weekend (if you catch my drift) once upon a time to finally get some needed medicine and they promised it was the strongest stuff on the market. A prescription and a pat on the back later we went to the pharmacy hoping to get this WunderMed. It turned out to be simple Imodium tablets (regular strength) imported from the US. You could imagine our disappointment. They also don't have decongestants. They don't believe in evil decongestants and you shouldn't take them because they are bad for you. There is no German translation for the word 'decongestant'. We have to smuggle all kinds of OTC drugs each time we make a trip. Afrin, Robitussin, Mucinex, Zicam, (now Imodium too)- none of these exist here.

Omeprazole however, is free with a prescription even though my doc says he doesn't believe in the American delusion of acid reflux. He writes the prescription and shakes his head at me.

Birthing mothers with public insurance are in a room with 3 other moms (and their respective families)- and are given two whole extra strength tylenol for pain after child birth. My wife gave birth here with a Cesarean Section and was given one day's worth of strong pain meds, then nothing but Ibuprofin. More meds and we have to reconsider it after a couple of days. Again with the needless suffering. :) Then it's out on your ear after 3 days- no arguing. 5 days if you had your belly cut open. This type of regulation does not spring from good doctor patient communication. The one thing the German system does right is baby-birthing. They have a negative birth rate so there are lots of docs/nurses/midwives and few mothers giving birth!

A friend of mine fell while drunk one night and ended up gashing his face with 7 or 8 horizontal lines from some escalator steps. It was not pretty He went home and slept it off and went to the emergency room the next morning. Nope. Can't give you the stitches (or stitch glue) because it's been more than 4 hours since it happened. He had to **beg** and because it was his face, the doctors **reluctantly** glued his face back together. If it were any other body part it would have been out of the question- regulations say that they shouldn't do it. If this were the US, you would get a different doctor, tell your friends about the previous doc and run them out of business if you could. Here, you don't get a say. Take your one tylenol and call me on Friday. Wait- Friday is a holiday so we might as well make it Monday. Can't work on Saturday, you know. And, well, Sunday is 'Sunday'- so your potential life threatening colon surgery will be put off because of the holiday schedule. Don't worry, you just have to *not eat* for 3 extra days, but you can handle that. (Again with the needless suffering) That's who I visited in the hospital today. My friend is holed up for 3 extra days just because of the holiday schedule. He's already been in the hospital without food since Monday and will have to stay a week after the surgery, that is when ever they get around to it on Monday. Ugh.

I know people who have had a tooth or two ruined by public insurance doctors but there is nothing you can do but go to a different public insurance dentist. Crowns, braces, etc. I would consider too risky here and would want to get it done in the US.

A friend had a boob job and was given 1 extra strength tylenol a day for 4 days. (Needless suffering is the norm)

A friend had a colonoscopy and as she was getting dressed afterward she complained of a bloating feeling. The doc pushed on her stomach and made her uncontrollably fart a large amount of air (from the procedure). The doc and nurses all laughed and opened a window (at her expense). She did nothing to bring on the joke and they made her feel so bad she won't go back in 5 years for the follow up. She said she will wait 10 years before going there again.

Abortions are available on demand but not paid for except for low income or unemployed and are only legal under 12 weeks and after 3 days counseling and waiting period. In 1992 it expanded to "on demand" from the previous clause of only in the case of serious health issues, rape or incest.

I hurt my back once and went to the hospital to beg for percoset or vicadin or something similar for the pain. What they gave me was the equivalent to a mild muscle relaxer that didn't offer any relief. I had to stick to the ibuprofin that we have on hand in our medicine box.

A friend has Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome: The OBGYN doc said "If you are not planning on having children, why do you need a regular menstrual cycle? Come back in 6 months or a year for the correct medicine that will give you a regular menstrual cycle after you tell me that you plan to start a family. Otherwise, this will be needless medication and we don't hand out needless medication willy-nilly." This is in spite of the fact that this doc is the leading endocrinologist in the area and that PCOS is linked to various health issues like large cysts, infertility, mood swings, acne, weight gain due to insulin resistance, to which the doc only answered "Eat less." Google is your friend, and another doctor in the US helped our friend with her diagnosis via email and sent this new info to the supposed leading endocrinologist in Bavaria who perhaps learned from it. Or perhaps she brushed it off as another self medicating American hell bent on finding silly 'facts' to support sound medical advice.

All that said, the one benefit that my welfare state minded colleagues take advantage of with the system is that they get "Nach Urlaub" or "After Vacation". In other words, if you are sick during your 6 weeks of summer vacation and have a doctor's note that you were sick for 2 weeks- you get to take up to 2 weeks off during the work year at your employer's discretion (and go where ever you want- Italy, Paris, London, etc.) It's everyone's right to have 6 full weeks of healthy vacation. So 4 healthy weeks and 2 sick weeks is not fair for the sick vacationer. While the rest of us work honestly, some of my colleagues get their doctor to "write them sick" just so they can take this extra two week vaca and milk the system a bit more. Still others will be mysteriously "sick" for the maximum each year before they start loosing pay, which is about 6 additional weeks. 6 weeks in summer + 2 weeks Nach Urlaub + 6 weeks of general sickyness = 14 weeks of paid time off each year. Since the government regulates all employers and won't let them fire people for being sick, many take full advantage without recompense.

I could do that too but like Russell Crowe in The Cinderella Man, I would feel to guilty taking the welfare money and want to give it back when I got back on my feet again. :)

I have a lot more concrete examples of times that crap has happened due to the system here. For me the bottom line after 5 years of dealing with it and seeing friends deal with it is that if you have a choice you need to fight to keep the government out of the health care system- except for the fact that they should make it mandatory for every person to have some sort of health care. Once the regulations are in place, the only way to change the way big brother medicates you (or fails to medicate you) is to organize protests and hand out signature ballots- like in Germany. I say let the private companies start competing for the best services they can offer and the customer has a choice. There are *no* choices here. There are many ways to attain "affordable health care for everyone" but only some of the ideas from socialized health care work for the benefit of the patient.

Heh. If you aren't confused yet, at least you know that if you want to sing in Germany, you better bring some Tylenol, Imodium, Musinex, Afrin, sleeping pills, Claritin, Sudafed, and while I'm at it: Splenda, Chocolate Chips, Cheerios, Cake and Cookie Mixes, English Keyboard Laptops, Men's Jackets that don't zip from the left side like Ladie's Jackets and your choice of personal lubricants- again with the needless suffering :)

Hope it helps just a little. If it does, feel free to pass it on.

Commander of what?

2010-05-02T09:27:00.000-07:00

As the wars overseas rage on our "Commander" in Chief shows how much he HATES military action. As he sits in the Oval Office and shines his Nobel Peace Prize and (Two Grammys) our troops are fighting the good fight without any contact from him.

As blogged before by yours truly, our Commander in Chief spoke to the Generals in the field of combat ONCE in the first TEN MONTHS of being Commander in Chief. Fast forward to May of 2010 and the Wall Street Journal is reporting that our Commander in Chief has spoken to Gen. Stanley McChrystal only ONCE in the past SIX MONTHS.

It would take courage to pick up the phone and not only communicate with Gen. Stanley McChrystal but listen to him and his strategies, put forth your own ideas, offer advice, listen to advice and set up an open channel of communication between your acting generals in the field. Without that, the war will just drag out with the United States not gaining any ground. How many times will Obama pick up the phone in the next few months as 30,000 U.S. and NATO reinforcements head to Afghanistan as part of a military buildup to take on the Taliban in the south? Let's take bets.

No, Obama does not have the judgment or courage to win this war.

Commie march in Munich, May 1, 2010

2010-05-02T03:16:00.000-07:00

You may have read about some Communist marches in Europe but I'd like to share my experience with this 'non-event' that happened in Munich.

There were more police than protesters and the 200 or so (rough estimate by me) protesters seemed to be those self-same protesters that AstroTurf themselves at every anti-government rally. Most of the people wore outlandish outfits and the whole thing seemed to be a college frat party rather than a protest that actually had a point. The picture above is a flyer handed out. The back of it had paragraphs (in German) about how the Capitalist System in Germany is big and bad and needs to be overcome with the nice Communist Party Ideas. There were some skinheads therein as well as banners saying that Communism should overcome Capitalism. As the music truck lumbered by you realize that these people are just protesting to protest. The entire group seemed so ignorant that one would estimate that about 2 people in the group were intelligent enough to actually believe what they were protesting.

The iphone video below tells the whole story.

Know your Czar!

2010-04-29T07:35:00.000-07:00

This list speaks for itself. (from an email forward) These are the people who Obama has helping him run the country. He has said that along with these hand-picked people, he will supply the vision. The Congress and Senate will take care of the details of making his vision happen. He won't bother with debating people on the details. They should just follow his vision like blind subjects following their dictator.

Ok, he didn't say that last line, but he has said everything else. Take a look at who is helping supply BHO with vision and where this country is headed.

But first, take an AlkaSelzer, Vallium or some sort of nerve pill to calm yourself before reading the following:

OBAMA'S CZARS
CZAR	Czar Position	Summary
Richard Holbrooke	Afghanistan Czar	Ultra liberal anti gun former Gov. of New Mexico. Pro Abortion and legal drug use. Dissolve the 2nd Amendment
Ed Montgomery	Auto recovery Czar	Black radical anti business activist.. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty.. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.
Jeffrey Crowley	AIDS Czar	Radical Homosexual.. A Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and especially, a Special Status for homosexuals only, including complete free health care for gays.
Alan Bersin	Border Czar	The former failed superintendent of San Diego . Ultra Liberal friend of Hilary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno to keep borders open to illegals without interference from US
David J. Hayes	California Water Czar	Sr. Fellow of radical environmentalist group, Progress Policy. No training or experience in water management whatsoever.
Ron Bloom	Car Czar	Auto Union worker. Anti business & anti nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Auto Union owned. How did this happen?
Dennis Ross	Central Region Czar	Believes US policy has caused Mid East wars. Obama apologist to the world. Anti gun and completely pro abortion.
Lynn Rosenthal	Domestic Violence Czar	Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti male feminist Supported male castration. Imagine?
Gil Kerlikowske	Drug Czar	A devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, Former Chief of Police in Liberal Seattle. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of all drugs
Paul Volcker	Economic Czar	Head of Fed Reserve under Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy.. Member of anti business Progressive Policy organization
Carol Brower	Energy and Environment Czar	Political Radical Former head of EPA - known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership.
Joshua DuBois	Faith Based Czar	Political Black activist - Degree in Black Nationalism. Anti gun ownership lobbyist.
Cameron Davis	Great Lakes Czar	Chicago radical anti business environmentalist. *Blames George Bush for Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink.* No experience or training in water management. Former ACORN Board member.
Van Jones	Past Green Jobs Czar	(since resigned - not fired).. Black activist Member of American communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party who said Geo Bush caused the 911 attack and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes. Black activist with strong anti-white views.
Daniel Fried	Guantanamo Closure Czar	Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has caused the war on terrorism. Believes terrorists have rights above and beyond Americans.
Nancy-Ann DeParle.	Health Czar	Former head of Medicare / Medicaid. Strong Health Care Rationing proponent. She is married to a reporter for The New York Times.
Vivek Kundra	Information Czar	Born in New Delhi, India. Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Monitors all private Internet emails. (hello?)
Todd Stern	International Climate Czar	Anti business former White House chief of Staff- Strong supporter of the Kyoto Accord.. Pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for Global warming. Anti- US business prosperity.
Dennis Blair	Intelligence Czar	Ret Navy. Stopped US guided missile program as provocative. Chair of ultra liberal "Council on Foreign Relations" which blames American organizations for regional wars.
George Mitchell	Mideast Peace Czar	Former. Senator from Maine Left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into 2 or 3 smaller more manageable plots. (God forbid) A true Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro homosexual "special rights" advocate.
Kenneth Feinberg	Pay Czar	Chief of Staff to TED KENNEDY. Lawyer who got rich off the 911 victims payoffs. (horribly true)
Cass Sunstein	Regulatory Czar	Liberal activist judge believes free speech needs to be limited for the "common good". Essentially against 1st amendment. Rules against personal freedoms many times â€“like private gun ownership and right to free speech.
John Holdren	Science Czar	Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club, Anti business activist. Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training.
Earl Devaney	Stimulus Accountability Czar	Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico. Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico.
J. Scott Gration	Sudan Czar	Native of Democratic Republic of Congo.. Believes US does little to help Third World countries. Council of foreign relations, asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations
Herb Allison	TARP Czar	Fannie May CEO responsible for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings.
John Brennan	Terrorism Czar	Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or gov. affairs. Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military
Aneesh Chopra	Technology Czar	No Technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals. Anti doctor activist. Supports Obama Health care Rationing and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Gov. health care plan
Adolfo Carrion Jr..	Urban Affairs Czar	Puerto Rican born Anti American activist and leftist group member in Latin America . Millionaire "slum lord" of the Bronx , NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from sweetheart deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes on middle class to pay for minority housing and health care
Ashton Carter	Weapons Czar	Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America.
Gary Samore	WMD Policy Czar	Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other policy.

You have 9 days till your subscription runs out...

2010-04-27T05:43:00.000-07:00

Hidden in my junk email was a message that read "Your New York Times subscription ends in 9 days". I didn't click the link which probably was for Viagra anyway. The thing is, I don't have a Times subscription- never have. NEVER WILL!

I get my news from other sources.

The Left are floundering at their loss of control of the media. "Don't read headlines on Drudge!" "Don't listen to talk radio!" and "Report right wing anti-government extremists to the White House!" are headlines in the news these days. The Left are so scared as they watch their control of media crumble like the plastic pillars of Obama's great immaculation.

In totalitarian regimes the government tries to control the people by controlling the media and the education system. In China, my American friends 'finally' broke through the iron curtain and have access to simple things like email and facebook- but it took them several attempts and they are probably using 'illegal' programs to do so. In Iran the government permanently blocked Gmail service to keep the subjects from freely communicating. They now have a government monitored email service that will keep dissenters from being heard.

'Net Neutrality' is one way the Left want to justify blocking servers that carry dissenting voices by claiming they know what 'fair' is. They are far from achieving this goal and I doubt the First Amendment could ever be stretched so thin.

WHAT CAN I DO?
Don't pay for news that doesn't support your world view. Pay for news that does. I subscribe to Rush 24/7, The Heritage Foundation and donate to various campaigns of conservative candidates/movements. How many people signed up for left-winged Newsday in their "pay subscription" experiment? Answer: 35. How many people pay 25$ for a yearly subscription to www.Heritage.org? Answer: More and more each day. And that's the best news of all.

We are making progress. Leftist rag newspapers are on the way out. Twitter and social networking sites are on the rise. Pay for the good stuff. Tweet till your fingers go numb. And the next time you get a solicited for the New York Times tell them you'd rather have some discount Viagra instead.

Earth day = religious experience for the left

2010-04-21T09:30:00.000-07:00

A liberal friend of mine invited me (on facebook) to join her in observing Earth Hour. the observation consists of turning your lights and computers off for one hour on March 27, 2010, at 8pm in your time zone. This is to help raise awareness of how much electricity we as greedy Western Capitalists consume. Now I'm all for "green" tech and feel it has it's place in the free market, but the idea of earth hour tries to tie activism to everyone on a personal level.

While I instantly dismissed the idea of turning off my lights for an hour as pure poppycock, I pictured my well intentioned friend going around her apartment and flipping the switches, which I'm sure she did. Then, all proud of herself she probably sat there silently in the dark. No doubt she glanced disapprovingly at her neighbors' lights still burning and returned to her favorite chair and sat there for the remainder of the hour, smug, but bored to death.

It must have been a religious experience for her: like a moment of silence for all those trees used for our electricity generating coal plants or like a bible study hour but instead of cracking open the bible you repeat activist mantras. Then it occurred to me, this IS the liberals religion. Activism is their driving force and hair-brained causes, no matter how trivial, are the fodder.

I sigh with regret that more and more people are being sucked in by silly causes and would hope that when Earth Day arrives (April 22, 2010) that you see it for what it really is- something that tries to reach people on a spiritual level rather than an intellectual one. Which, I must say is the only way the Left captures and maintains the masses.

No Representation without Taxation

2010-04-20T03:45:00.000-07:00

Here's a great idea. It would solve problems the world over- erase communism, marxism and chip away at the ever elusive terrorism support.

If you work and pay taxes, you get to vote. If you are a government leech and receive welfare benefits your vote doesn't count. Embracing this idea would stamp out the Democratic Party instantly and the political fight in this country would be who is more productive and more American. The political center would shift so far right that no one would care about politics anymore and we could just go on living our lives in complete freedom.

People on welfare would strive to get off it and work harder so they can have their own independence. No one would vote to extend unemployment benefits (for the fourth successful time).

No representation without taxation!
Is this an idea whose time has come?

Clinton, shut it!

2010-04-19T09:26:00.000-07:00

Bill Clinton,
My liberal friends are praising the latest drivel out of former President Clinton's useless office this week, lauding him as well spoken and well said. In a biased left winged slanted article from the NY Times Clinton linked Waco, Oklahoma City and "potential future violence" to Tea Partiers (whose Tax Day Protests went peacefully unnoticed in the news and swept aside).

Rush answers back in a well worded retort that sums it up. I will paraphrase:
We can't call Islamist fundamentalists 'terrorists', but our former president and current president are trying their darndest to tie the conservative movement to nonexistent terrorism and label it as such.

It's no wonder the NYT is in the tank. No one buys their rag anymore!

Keep dissenting people! It's patriotic! Just ask Hillary!

Why Obama is going full steam ahead

2010-03-16T15:09:00.000-07:00

A letter to Rush Limbaugh:

Why Obama is going full steam ahead

Dear Rush, It dawned on me why Obama is bent on keeping the Democratic party in constant "cram-down mode" since he took office. He feels the country HATED Bush 41 so much that he and his party get a free pass till we call them on it. (Which is why "blame Bush" is still such a big idea these days.)

This occurred to me when my German friend said that she and her boyfriend were now traveling to the US and that they didn't want to travel there while Bush was in office. My friends have such a dislike for Bush, based on the Extreme Leftist State Controlled Media in Germany, that it dawned on me that Obama not only has the same dislike for Bush but he is probably counting on it from the American People. This will be his undoing because he is counting on that hatred from the American people to be so deep seeded that we will take what ever "Change" rhetoric he dishes out. Those who hated GWB were few and far between, but they had the loudest voices. (Just Google "george bush monkey", for example.)

He forgets that he only won by a narrow margin.

Even though you haven't mentioned this directly I know you already know it. Just trying to help your ratings get above 99.5%

Dittos from behind German lines,
MastadonArmy

PS. I'm 1/8 American Indian and wasn't offended by the "Indian giver" colloquialism, and neither should anyone else

Paul Ryan blasts Obamacare

2010-03-13T08:00:00.000-08:00

During the televised healthcare debate between Democrats and Republicans, Senator Ryan calls Obamacare a "Ponzi scheme that would make Madoff proud". No one in the State-run media has fact-checked this because they know it to be 100% true.

Texas votes against continued indoctrination

2010-03-13T04:43:00.000-08:00

Conservative values are now on par with liberal ones.

The NYTimes is furious!

Commander in Chief?

2009-10-07T06:55:00.000-07:00

Let's say there's a war. Let's say you are the Commander of the war. Let's say you are the leader of the free world and one of the most important people on the planet. Wouldn't you think that you, as leader, would be in communication with your troops in battle? Wouldn't you get on the horn and talk to them to see how things are going?

GWB spoke to the commanders on the ground in Iraq on a weekly or daily basis. THAT is what a Commander in Chief does.

Obama has now spoken with the commanders and generals a grand total of ONCE, and it's now October. That means since the immaculate inauguration back in January Obama has twiddled his thumbs in regards to actually LEADING this country's war effort.

Oh, he does other stuff too, like going on Letterman, Leno and the popular talk circuits to chum up the late night tv viewers. He also goes to committee meetings to push for Olympics in Chicago when Chicago doesn't even want them. He has gotten on the soap box for Obamacare almost 200 times... but does he pick up the phone and call General Stanley A. McChrystal? Nope.

Do you think this is how a Commander in Chief should act?

Update! Hannity: Town Hall Turns Ugly

2009-08-11T13:34:00.000-07:00

To answer Hannity's last question they are doing fine. :)

Town Halls Turn Violent

2009-08-11T10:38:00.000-07:00

You might remember when the town hall meetings exploded on the internet. You might remember when SEIU thugs started pushing people around. Turns out people I know were right in the middle of it being pushed around by the SEIU thugs. No, they weren't provoking anyone, they just happened to be in the right place at the wrong time.

1,000 people turned up to a town hall meeting in Kathy Castor Town Hall Meeting in Tampa. The venue seats 250. How do you fit 1,000 people into the hall? Answer: You first place 125 people (via a side door) who agree with Obamacare into the hall and let 125 average American citizens in- keeping the rest outside.

After the loud speakers stopped working the crowd started chanting and got so loud that they decided to close the doors. That's when elbows started flying. Now my wife's cousin's wife was there along with her parents. Not causing trouble, not shouting... just wanting to get answers to how to pay for cancer treatements under Obamacare. They ended up getting pushed around a bit. No harm done to them but they were just a bit rattled.

After the doors were closed and the meeting continued, anyone with a question against Obamacare found themselves with a general intimidating tone and cameras in their faces.

Watch the videos,

Fox News article

And here is a partial transcript from the call to the greatest talk show host ever:
BETH: No. Well, we had waited an hour in line and we were right at the doors where you are going in and they had the doors open into the union hall, into the meeting room. And they had a speaker outside but it wasn't working. And people in the hallway were yelling, "Let us hear," and they thought we were saying, "We want Obama," but it was "Let us hear." And they couldn't get the speaker to work. So we're all standing there. Well, people outside were going, "Open meeting! Open meeting! Take it outside," so everybody could hear because there were so many people there. Well, they decided too much noise was going on in the hallway and decided to close the doors. Well, somehow I got pushed into the room, into the meeting room when the thugs came out. They came out four abreast with their arms up. I got pushed in, and my husband, who was right behind me in the green shirt, then was pushed against the wall. My daughter managed to get over to him to try and get them off of my husband.
RUSH: Why'd they push him against the wall?
BETH: Because they wanted to shut the door to the room. They were shutting the doors. And the doors open into the hallway.
RUSH: Right. I've seen the video.
BETH: Yeah. And at that point they had my husband pinned against the wall, but I was trying to get out to him and they wouldn't let me out of the room.
RUSH: Are you there, standing next to a cop who is not doing anything about this, anything about it? Is that you that I saw or is there a different frame to the video?

(snip)

BETH: Right. At any rate, when they had my husband pinned against the wall, I was going hysterical. We went to ask specific questions on health care. I have read the bill. There was no addressing of any questions. I was in the meeting hall after they shut the doors. I did not leave because I wanted to hear what was said. RUSH: Yeah. From the video I saw, Kathy Castor just tried to make speech. She wasn't entertaining any questions and people were standing up and disagreeing when she said various things, correct?
BETH: That's correct. And when people were standing up agreeing, members that were supporting her were in the audience taking our pictures. It was almost like intimidation. Well, it was intimidation

(snip)

BETH: He's about 5' 9", weighs about 170. He has Stage 4 cancer. He has a severed rotator cuff, a port in his chest and an ileostomy. When they shoved him against the wall, I was telling them this: "Let me out! Let go of him! You're hurting him. He's sick." They kept right on doing it and wouldn't let me out and wouldn't let him go. The man with the ripped shirt then came in to help my husband and his shirt got ripped then by the thugs.

Obamacare - It's "shovel ready"

2009-08-11T02:12:00.001-07:00

This "plan" that is being pushed through won't even be implemented until 2013 . What's the rush? Why don't we take the time to read it first? http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/what_to_ask_your_congressperso_2.html

This is no "plan" other than government control of everyone's bank accounts and lack of choice...
http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_care_reform_obama.fortune/

Cutting existing benefits...
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/29/obamacare-does-cut-your-medicare-benefits/

Passive euthanasia...
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105525

About FACE!

2009-07-04T12:51:00.000-07:00

The Democratic Party wanted us to pull out of the war in Iraq, essentially failing. They tried to squash the surge by voting against it. They said GWB was going 'double or nothing'.

Obama predicted a civil war if we stayed.
Feb 10, 2007 Obama said this on the campaign trail. "It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war. That's why I have a plan that will bring our combat troops home by March of two thousand and eight. Letting the Iraqis know that we will not be there forever is our last best hope... to pressure the Suni and Shia to come to the table and find peace."

Obama and the Dems crucified General Patraeus (even before the hearings) and called him a liar when he said the surge was working. Remember MoveOn.Org's advertisement called "General betray us" that no one in the Democratic party jumped up to denounce?

On the campaign trail Obama said it would be an abysmal failure and led the Democratic party against the surge. Let's rewind a moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_igpyewuzQ
"I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse."

Joe Biden wanted to shove the surge down GWB's throat.
APRIL 27, 2007: Columbia SC, congressman Jim Clyburn's annual fish fry: REPORTER: "When he (GWB) kills that bill on the first what is the new version going to be that you will send him?"
BIDEN: "The first thing I'm gonna do when he vetoes that bill is I'm gonna take out that money for those MRAPS [Mine Resistant Ambush Protected], those off -- those vehicles that will save lives over there. The idea we're not... I gotta kid going over there! The idea we're not building these new Humvees with the V-shaped thing is just crap, man! Kids are dying that don't have to die. And the second thing is, we're going to shove it (the surge) down his throat."

The surge brought them to the table, not the fear of the US leaving. Fighting the terrorists Muqtada al-Sadr and others actually united the Suni and the Shi'a. Obama's policy of cutting and running would have left the region in an abyss of a civil war with all the sides fighting each other.

Now Obama is taking credit for avoiding a civil war by the US staying in Iraq.
Obama: June 30, 2008 "Those who have tried to pull Iraq into the abyss of disunion and civil war are on the wrong side of history. Finally, the very fact that Iraqis are celebrating this day is a testament to courage, the capability and commitment of every single American who has served in Iraq. That's worth applauding. (applause) Through tour after tour of duty our troops have overcome every obstacle to extend this precious opportunity to the Iraqi people. We've made important progress in supporting a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq; and everyone who served there, both in uniform as well as our civilians, uh, deserves our thanks."

It makes the average person with half a brain look at this twice and shake your head in disbelief. It fools the Obama voters into thinking that Obama was right all along because now he says the exact opposite that he said before and he says it with such conviction.

Kim Jong Il - Saber rattling

2009-05-30T23:32:00.000-07:00

In response to North Korean missle launches and reported atomic detonations:

(please exuse the MSPaint. It's all I have on me at the time)

For Obama voters:
The 'change' = pocket change. Pocket change makes clinky noises when rattled.
"Saber rattling" is a term used when countries flex their newly founded muscles (read- nukes).
Obama doesn't get 'rattled' when countries join the big boys club because Obama thinks we should hand over our nukes anyway and just sit down for a game of Jang-jak or two.

Obama declares war on Cheerios

2009-05-20T20:45:00.000-07:00

Seriously? Cheerios? It's not like some new fangled cereal came out and stated that eating a bowl a day for one fortnight would make your penis grow larger. This is Cheerios! A staple for American breakfast tables since 1941 this cereal is made of wholesome oats and is good for you. Yet, Obama's FDA has issued General Mills a dire warning that they are pedaling a drug and need to seek FDA approval for their claim of lowering cholesterol, a claim that the packaging has had for over two years based on clinical trials and previous FDA approval.

General Mills told Obama to stick it where the sun don't shine.

Therefore the Obama administration has taken new steps to thwart the opposition...
(please excuse the crude, simple, yet poignant cartoon- it's my first)
M

Pelosi deflects questions

2009-05-20T05:47:00.000-07:00

Simply stated, Nancy is out to strike a political agenda because she feels the time is right. There is no other reason she could be doing this. However, it is backfiring in her smug face because the Dems don't want to go down with her ship. Will there be enough backlash to get her removed? Stay tuned!

For Obama voters:
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, claims she did not know about torture techniques used against GITMO detainees. Although it was her job to know, her silence during the Bush administration suggests compliance. She said it wasn't her job to complain against techniques or to read briefings but rather to try to get a new liberal president in the white house. Hey! Did you hear that? She is actually quoted as saying that it wasn't her job to read briefings but rather it was her job to pull a political adgenda and try to get a different president into office and undermine the president in office. Hmmm. New respect for Newt, huh?

Now, after the fact, she claims not only that she didn't know about the techniques, but that the CIA lied and misled both her and congress- a claim that congress and the CIA deny.

Media Bias - Obama and Special Olympics

2009-05-15T23:05:00.000-07:00

Here's a webshot of Fox News.

Here's a webshot of MSNBC.

The fine print, in case you can't read it says: "Obama to Special Olympics: I'm sorry"

It's less and less of a wonder why more people tune in to Fox News than MSNBC and CNN combined. :)
M

Waterboarding worked once

2009-05-15T22:40:00.000-07:00

In all the cases of detainees in Gitmo: In all the terrorists that have darkened a cell there: In all the far reaching US intelligence fingers that have felt their way across the globe since 9/11: There were only THREE people that the US deemed ok to waterboard. Here's how it works:

1. Does the person have pertinent information regarding a future terrorist attack and choose to withhold that information?

2. Is the attack eminent?

3. Will the information gained from torture stop the attack?

4. Waterboard the person just like you were trained to do. (Training includes being waterboarded yourself.)

Khalid Sheik Mohammed's waterboarding led to the capture of Abu Zubaydah. Khalid and Abu thought the TV shows like Miami Vice were the way things worked (in the Bush world) and said things like "Heh! Soon you will know. It will be much worse than 9/11." This was their downfall. They thought that like Ricardo Tubbs and Sonny Crockett, all the US could do was say "Shucks. Our hands are tied." or like the Cannonball Run cops, jurisdiction only went so far. They thought they could be smug.

KSM and Abu were subsequently waterboarded and the information gained from them stopped the "second wave" of terrorist attacks that were planned for Los Angeles. The organizational structure of al Quaida, their modus operandi and key operatives were obtained. Planes were aimed at buildings just like in NYC and waterboarding led to info that stopped it. KSM and Abu were shocked to find that Sonny and Tubbs were more like Jack Bauer and Tony Almeida.

Obama wants to stop the techniques for the simple reason that he wants the rest of the world to love him and vicariously love the American people through his godly mellifluousness.

Here is my mantra, based a bit on the Lord of the Flies:

There has to be a big kid on the block. That kid has to have the biggest stick to beat up the other bad kids who threaten to blow up / shoot / destroy / burn / kill the good kids on the street. This, by the sheer nature of the relationship promotes the ideals of the kid with the big stick. Sometimes the big kid uses the stick and sometimes he just holds it up in a threatening manner. Either way, the bad kids back down, hand over their weapons and the street is safer.

All countries that have succeded have used this big kid/big stick mantra to succeed. Bush had a big stick and he used it. America succeeded. Obama is apologizing for Bush and breaking the stick over his knee. It is only a matter of time till he hands the pieces to the next biggest kids.

Any idiot can see that it worked. Any liberal that still clings to the hope that other countries will love us based on our "giving up of waterboarding" will watch as the other kids on the block quickly reach for their sticks and wait patiently for a moment to strike. If you don't believe me, just go for a drive in LA and count the buildings.
M