May 23, 2013
Lighten Up, Francis
The state of politics leaves me sickened and depressed in a way I have not felt since Watergate.
Time for a beak.
Below the fold is a picture from our cruise a couple of months ago. This is one of my favorite "posed" pictures.
May 22, 2013
At least the Administration recognizes the Fifth Amendment...
I want to be very careful how I present the massage I want you to take away from this post. As a student of history, I have often wondered how people can sit back and watch events unfold and turn a blind eye. For instance, there were many who knew the extent of the Final Solution in Hitler's Germany, yet looked the other way. There were people who countenanced Mussolini's abuses. After all, he made the trains run on time.
Progressives in Europe and America overlooked the brutal murders of Lenin's Soviet Russia because they agreed with basic political philosophies. !960's radicals were so against the war in Vietnam they supported the very regime that was torturing American POWs.
A perusal of liberal-leaning blogs shows little outrage over the IRS scandals. Often these are the very same people who were scandalized and outraged -- indignant even -- over provisions of the Patriot Act (and rightly so). Their vocal outrage over the imagined tyranny of the Bush administration held no bounds. But these same supporters of the Democrat Party and President Obama are covering their eyes and ears to outrageous, un-American, activity by partisan hacks in the IRS. Clearly there were members of the White House staff that knew what was going on.
I do not posses the vocabulary or writing ability to express my utter disgust at your propensity to put politics over principle. Some of you routinely get on your soapbox proclaiming your support for Women's Rights or for Gay Rights. But you clearly have no such compulsion to support the First Amendment Rights of every American. Clearly, you are only interested in preserving the interests of those who think like you do. You tell us putting a cross in a jar of piss is OK, because that "artist" has a right to express his beliefs. You support the burning of the American Flag as a symbol of protest.
But when the full might and authority of the United States Government is turned on individuals in an effort to suppress their beliefs and political philosophy, you write about recipes or movies or go silent as a nuclear sub in enemy waters.
The next time you liberals and progressive bloggers get all in a dander and write about the right of this group or that group, I will know the truth. You are just a hypocrite of the worst kind. At least the guy who gets drunk, cheats on his wife and goes to church on Sunday admits he is a sinner. You are worse. You will stab a friend in the back, as long as you gain from the transaction. You have no loyalty. You have no honor. You make me sick.
But hey, we got healthcare passed. But hey, the trains run on time.
Progressives in Europe and America overlooked the brutal murders of Lenin's Soviet Russia because they agreed with basic political philosophies. !960's radicals were so against the war in Vietnam they supported the very regime that was torturing American POWs.
A perusal of liberal-leaning blogs shows little outrage over the IRS scandals. Often these are the very same people who were scandalized and outraged -- indignant even -- over provisions of the Patriot Act (and rightly so). Their vocal outrage over the imagined tyranny of the Bush administration held no bounds. But these same supporters of the Democrat Party and President Obama are covering their eyes and ears to outrageous, un-American, activity by partisan hacks in the IRS. Clearly there were members of the White House staff that knew what was going on.
I do not posses the vocabulary or writing ability to express my utter disgust at your propensity to put politics over principle. Some of you routinely get on your soapbox proclaiming your support for Women's Rights or for Gay Rights. But you clearly have no such compulsion to support the First Amendment Rights of every American. Clearly, you are only interested in preserving the interests of those who think like you do. You tell us putting a cross in a jar of piss is OK, because that "artist" has a right to express his beliefs. You support the burning of the American Flag as a symbol of protest.
But when the full might and authority of the United States Government is turned on individuals in an effort to suppress their beliefs and political philosophy, you write about recipes or movies or go silent as a nuclear sub in enemy waters.
The next time you liberals and progressive bloggers get all in a dander and write about the right of this group or that group, I will know the truth. You are just a hypocrite of the worst kind. At least the guy who gets drunk, cheats on his wife and goes to church on Sunday admits he is a sinner. You are worse. You will stab a friend in the back, as long as you gain from the transaction. You have no loyalty. You have no honor. You make me sick.
But hey, we got healthcare passed. But hey, the trains run on time.
May 21, 2013
Things You Will Never See in the Obama White House
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| Somehow, someway, the IRS, AP and Benghazi messes have to be Bush's fault... |
May 20, 2013
The law is irrelevant.
Let me get this straight. According to one of Obama's Senior Advisers, Dan Pfiffer, it is irrelevant the IRS targeted conservative groups and released confidential donor information to Pro Publica:
As long as you are disgusted by an illegal activity and agree to stop, anything goes? Chester the Molester knows he should not have molested those kids. The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again.
Robbin' Bob has stolen thousand of dollars from area convenience stores. The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again.
Here at Enron, we know we defrauded investors and made millions off of innocent citizens with faked financial reports. The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again.
I know my brother and I dropped a couple of bombs in the middle of the crowd near the finish line at the Boston Marathon. The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again.
When your government becomes tyrannical, when it breaks the law in spirit and in fact, when your Government violates the the First Amendment of the Constitution and passes it off as irrelevant, it is beyond inexcusable. Just hoping it will not happen again is not enough. You Democrats and liberals looking the other way, hoping this will pass like a bad burrito, better wake up. The next time a politician uses the IRS to target groups and citizens based on political philosophy just may be a conservative or Republican administration. Then will you accept the excuse [t]he activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again?
"I can’t speak to the law here. The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again." on ABC's This Week
As long as you are disgusted by an illegal activity and agree to stop, anything goes? Chester the Molester knows he should not have molested those kids. The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again.
Robbin' Bob has stolen thousand of dollars from area convenience stores. The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again.
Here at Enron, we know we defrauded investors and made millions off of innocent citizens with faked financial reports. The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again.
I know my brother and I dropped a couple of bombs in the middle of the crowd near the finish line at the Boston Marathon. The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again.
When your government becomes tyrannical, when it breaks the law in spirit and in fact, when your Government violates the the First Amendment of the Constitution and passes it off as irrelevant, it is beyond inexcusable. Just hoping it will not happen again is not enough. You Democrats and liberals looking the other way, hoping this will pass like a bad burrito, better wake up. The next time a politician uses the IRS to target groups and citizens based on political philosophy just may be a conservative or Republican administration. Then will you accept the excuse [t]he activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again?
Quick Hit Monday
The boy is not happy. He came home in the wee hours of the night, long after the wife and I went to bed. This morning, just before eight o'clock, a crew armed with a Bobcat-mounted jackhammer started tearing the concrete in front of the house. It looks like it is our cul-de-sac's time for pavement repair. The boy's bedroom is in the front of the house.he is not happy.
So, I put in a load of laundry very early this morning. I was standing at the washer, waiting on the spin cycle to end when I felt something creeping along my arm. I looked down and the tickle was a trickle of bright red blood. My blood. It was oozing from a long scratch on my arm that had not been there a few moments before. How do you get scratched deep enough to bleed when standing still? How can a person not feel that scratch? Am I turning into one of those paper-thin skinned old men you see tottering through the grocery? Where do I buy one of those fishing hats anyway? I suppose I need me some high-waisted double-knit slacks.
Saturday I helped a friend roof his garage. It has been a long time since I spent a day swinging a hammer. Yesterday and today I am feeling the ache of seldom used muscles. Not so much in the arm, but the back of my thighs, buttocks and lower back. Getting up and down are a chore.
When did I turn into an old man?
So, I put in a load of laundry very early this morning. I was standing at the washer, waiting on the spin cycle to end when I felt something creeping along my arm. I looked down and the tickle was a trickle of bright red blood. My blood. It was oozing from a long scratch on my arm that had not been there a few moments before. How do you get scratched deep enough to bleed when standing still? How can a person not feel that scratch? Am I turning into one of those paper-thin skinned old men you see tottering through the grocery? Where do I buy one of those fishing hats anyway? I suppose I need me some high-waisted double-knit slacks.
Saturday I helped a friend roof his garage. It has been a long time since I spent a day swinging a hammer. Yesterday and today I am feeling the ache of seldom used muscles. Not so much in the arm, but the back of my thighs, buttocks and lower back. Getting up and down are a chore.
When did I turn into an old man?
May 18, 2013
Your freedom is at stake
If the IRS is willing to target groups and individuals based on their their political beliefs, will that same agency target conservatives under the ObamaCare enforcement policies? Will the Government deny health care to individuals who voice disagreement with the political philosophies of the administration?
When the government embarks in tyranny, there is no end.
When the government embarks in tyranny, there is no end.
May 17, 2013
I don't wanna go
We have to go to the funeral home this evening. A friend of ours lost her mother. This same friend's father died just 42 days ago.
What words of comfort can one offer that are not mere shallow platitudes at best? .
What words of comfort can one offer that are not mere shallow platitudes at best? .
Hmmm
Think back on the various bosses you have had over the years. Was there any worse manager than the one who blamed his workers when things went wrong and took all of the credit when things went right?
The current occupier of the White House sure seems to be a lot like that boss, doesn't he?
The current occupier of the White House sure seems to be a lot like that boss, doesn't he?
May 16, 2013
'Xactly
Read this
She is as right as rain.
I especially love this passage:
She is as right as rain.
I especially love this passage:
Mostly, they reject values so that they won’t later have to answer to them. It’s sort of pre-paid hypocrisy credits. If I maintain that everything is normal, nothing is abnormal, everyone is okay and no one is a monster, then I can like myself better and sleep smugly, if not soundly, at night.Does anything better capture the liberal mindset than those 52 words? She is talking about the MSM here, but it captures your average progressive in its essence. If you have a sliding scale of standards, or lack morals, then you can not be held to that standard or that morality. The linked post is nothing short of brilliance.
Living in the Past
I was once told I have an old soul. I do not know what that means. I know I like to listen to my baseball on the radio. The pace and tempo seem best suited for an audio experience. A good radio announcer will tell you if the infield is in or if a shift is on. The TV shows only the pitcher and hitter.
There is something about listening to baseball on the radio that brings a nostalgia for days I never lived. I am not so old-fashioned I try to tune in a static-filled weak signal from far off WGN in Chicago to catch the Cub games. I do have the MLB At Bat app for my iPhone. The crystal clear digital signal is far better for my modern sensibilities.
On the other hand, you can't get the full flavor of this on the radio. You can't get it on TV either, after all, Harry is dead.
There is something about listening to baseball on the radio that brings a nostalgia for days I never lived. I am not so old-fashioned I try to tune in a static-filled weak signal from far off WGN in Chicago to catch the Cub games. I do have the MLB At Bat app for my iPhone. The crystal clear digital signal is far better for my modern sensibilities.
On the other hand, you can't get the full flavor of this on the radio. You can't get it on TV either, after all, Harry is dead.
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