May 31, 2013
Dear Democrats
Would you yawn and call him "a modern Moses" if John Mitchell had subpoenaed the phone records of Woodward,Bernstein and their families during Watergate?
May 30, 2013
A$$holes and Alligators
Last week a bunch of Congressmen called in Apple execs to lecture them for -- following the law. Earlier this week Representative Keith Ellison said he was disappointed Apple Corp does not want to pay more in taxes.
Here is my question to all Democrats who think the rich people and corporations should want to pay more in taxes. I will address my question to Mr. Ellison, since he is so passionate. Mr. Ellison, when you filed your taxes last month did you take any deductions? Did you exercise your exemptions? Do you have a retirement account saving money in pretax dollars? Did you deduct from your taxes through claimed charitable donations?
Unless you put your money where your mouth is, Representative Ellison, unless you looked at your total income and went straight to the tax table and paid the maximum amount, you can just drink a big old glass of shut the fuck up you hypocritical asswipe.
Any of you class warfare 'pay your fair share" types who agree with Ellison take the same advice. Lecture me when you are paying the maximum. In fact, the IRS allows you to pay extra if you feel the need.
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Here is my question to all Democrats who think the rich people and corporations should want to pay more in taxes. I will address my question to Mr. Ellison, since he is so passionate. Mr. Ellison, when you filed your taxes last month did you take any deductions? Did you exercise your exemptions? Do you have a retirement account saving money in pretax dollars? Did you deduct from your taxes through claimed charitable donations?
Unless you put your money where your mouth is, Representative Ellison, unless you looked at your total income and went straight to the tax table and paid the maximum amount, you can just drink a big old glass of shut the fuck up you hypocritical asswipe.
Any of you class warfare 'pay your fair share" types who agree with Ellison take the same advice. Lecture me when you are paying the maximum. In fact, the IRS allows you to pay extra if you feel the need.
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May 29, 2013
May 28, 2013
Monday II -- The Sequel
Good morning blog readers across the fruited plain. We find ourselves on a Tuesday that feels like a Monday. Even though it is a short work week it is going to be a busy one. I have a big project due Friday, and since today is already Tuesday, as I already mentioned -- you have to keep up, dang it -- I am already a day behind. Or so you think. I actually worked hard last Friday and got much of it done, so take that doubters.
If I get my work done I am going to take a day of vacation Friday. The wife is having a garage sale Saturday. I plan on helping her drag out some big stuff to get rid of. Do you need a set of bunk beds, a curio cabinet? How about a bicycle? I have a 70cc dirt bike motorcycle if you are up to a thrill or two. Come on by Saturday morning. Leave your cash, take away myjunk high quality, slightly used merchandise.
If I get my work done I am going to take a day of vacation Friday. The wife is having a garage sale Saturday. I plan on helping her drag out some big stuff to get rid of. Do you need a set of bunk beds, a curio cabinet? How about a bicycle? I have a 70cc dirt bike motorcycle if you are up to a thrill or two. Come on by Saturday morning. Leave your cash, take away my
May 27, 2013
Memorial Day
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Please remember all those who died for our freedom.
May 26, 2013
Rambling Sunday Nonsense With No Politics
If you like fast cars and basketball, today is a good day to be in the Indianapolis area. The Indianapolis 500 will go off as scheduled around noon; weather permitting. Professional basketball playoffs continue tonight as the Pacers take on the Miami Heat at 8:00.
It is quite likely I will watch neither. I have never seen the Indy 500 live on TV. It is blacked out in most of Indiana. I have been to the race twice, back in the 1980's. Lots of fun. Lots of people. The un-fun of getting in and getting out of the track far outweighed the fun inside, at least for me. The beginning of the race will make your hair stand on end. The end is a thrill, especially if you are sitting near the start line.
I am not a basketball fan, never have been. I especially hate the NBA brand of hoops. There should not be different rules for special players. A foul is a foul, even if your name is LeBron or Michael. I am pretty sure the rules specify one is to dribble the ball, not run down the lane like the six year-olds in the winter league at the Boys Club.
I did some yard work yesterday and mowed the yard in anticipation of a raining afternoon today and Monday.It needed it in any case.
As I type these words, a cardinal is singing on a branch outside my office window. The coffee is hot and Dire Straits is singing about "Guitar George". In the next room the boy is getting ready for work.
Have a good Sunday.
It is quite likely I will watch neither. I have never seen the Indy 500 live on TV. It is blacked out in most of Indiana. I have been to the race twice, back in the 1980's. Lots of fun. Lots of people. The un-fun of getting in and getting out of the track far outweighed the fun inside, at least for me. The beginning of the race will make your hair stand on end. The end is a thrill, especially if you are sitting near the start line.
I am not a basketball fan, never have been. I especially hate the NBA brand of hoops. There should not be different rules for special players. A foul is a foul, even if your name is LeBron or Michael. I am pretty sure the rules specify one is to dribble the ball, not run down the lane like the six year-olds in the winter league at the Boys Club.
I did some yard work yesterday and mowed the yard in anticipation of a raining afternoon today and Monday.It needed it in any case.
As I type these words, a cardinal is singing on a branch outside my office window. The coffee is hot and Dire Straits is singing about "Guitar George". In the next room the boy is getting ready for work.
Have a good Sunday.
May 25, 2013
Memory Lane
Remember way back in early 2013 when there were some Second Amendment advocates who remarked that one of the reasons the Second Amendment was put into the Constitution was to protect the First Amendment? Remember how the Liberal-types thought that was a ridiculous argument? After all, the Progressive admonished, the Government would never use its power to persecute and harass a citizen based upon his political or religious beliefs.
Ah, the good old days...
Ah, the good old days...
May 24, 2013
My Confusing Thursday
Yesterday evening I found myself muttering words I thought I would never say to my wife of almost 29 years. I had to tell her that I had let a man stick his hand up my ass. I am still not clear how a visit to the medico for lower back/kidney pain turned into a prostate exam.
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 break.*
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?
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