(Don't forget to scroll down to March 4 where the Mark Schauer hilarity begins.)
My husband and I were talking over lunch today and he began to wonder what would happen if an attempt were made on Hillary's life given the attack on the Pakistani cricket game. His first reaction was that it would make the Europeans have to come off the fence on one side or the other.
My mind jumped to the dissing attitude Obama has for the UK and return of the Churchhill bust which had a place of honor in George W's office but Obama couldn't even just send it "down the hall" or find another location for it. He just had to get rid of it. Poor Mr. Brown--he was really treated quite shabbily.
So the question is: do we have any allies left in the world other than Canada since the Obama group has gone out of their way to tick off Columbia and Mexico who were sorta friendly before?
My guess is that we probably wouldn't have much of a reaction other than a "Just try something like that again and see what happens!" which is something like "just wait until your father gets home." It didn't take long for the kids to figure out what kind of bluff that was, right?
Oh, and before I forget it----did he really have to saddle up Air Force I to make an announcement that he had saved 25 jobs in Ohio? How much did that little maneuver cost the public? If he does that for every 25 jobs gained, we'll go bankrupt flying the darn plane!
Oh, well...........
See ya,
Friday, March 6, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Random -- Ramblings
Be sure to check out the Schauer clip which follows this entry--hilarious!
Not much has changed: Congress is holding back DC kids from vouchers so they get a second rate education while the legislators' and President's kids get high priced private schools........
Biden goes to Florida to hobnob with the bigwigs from the unions while the rank and file stand in the unemployment line and give me a break--they still expect the hourly workers to plead with Congress to pass the bill taking away a secret vote?
Does everyone have the feeling that as Hillary jets around the mid-East making nice with Iran and their friends that the rest of the world is being reminded of the weak foreign policy of the Clinton administration which is being carried forward by the Obama "Clinton-lite" White House?
I am sick of hearing politicians say "America wants" or "the people want" when in fact they haven't a clue what the people want. They just keep repeating the mantra so folks will think they are being represented.
Remember when we talked about one of the reasons women stayed home was because their first dollar was taxed at the rate of their husband's last dollar? At some time which is probably not too far away, the "rich" will realize that their higher tax rates put them in a category where they will be better off working just a little less by taking one less contract or working x number fewer billable hours or whatever it takes for them to figure they aren't being taken advantage of.
One more point on the "rich." I never believed people like Gore, Biden, Kerry, etc. and other presidential candidates who said they didn't itemize their contributions because they wanted to remain anonymous. Really, they just weren't very astute taxwise. If you itemize your charitable deductions, the dollars saved in tax can be used to give just that much more. As Judge Judy says, if it doesn't make sense, it's not true. It just doesn't make sense to penalize those who are givers rather than takers in our society.
Sam Brownback should be ashamed. With all the help and respect he has received from the pro life groups he is sticking his thumb in their collective eyes by supporting Sebelius. Bah! Humbug!
Heard someone say today say it's not right to pay taxes on taxes. So what else is new? This has been going on forever. We could have a contest counting examples.
God bless...........
Not much has changed: Congress is holding back DC kids from vouchers so they get a second rate education while the legislators' and President's kids get high priced private schools........
Biden goes to Florida to hobnob with the bigwigs from the unions while the rank and file stand in the unemployment line and give me a break--they still expect the hourly workers to plead with Congress to pass the bill taking away a secret vote?
Does everyone have the feeling that as Hillary jets around the mid-East making nice with Iran and their friends that the rest of the world is being reminded of the weak foreign policy of the Clinton administration which is being carried forward by the Obama "Clinton-lite" White House?
I am sick of hearing politicians say "America wants" or "the people want" when in fact they haven't a clue what the people want. They just keep repeating the mantra so folks will think they are being represented.
Remember when we talked about one of the reasons women stayed home was because their first dollar was taxed at the rate of their husband's last dollar? At some time which is probably not too far away, the "rich" will realize that their higher tax rates put them in a category where they will be better off working just a little less by taking one less contract or working x number fewer billable hours or whatever it takes for them to figure they aren't being taken advantage of.
One more point on the "rich." I never believed people like Gore, Biden, Kerry, etc. and other presidential candidates who said they didn't itemize their contributions because they wanted to remain anonymous. Really, they just weren't very astute taxwise. If you itemize your charitable deductions, the dollars saved in tax can be used to give just that much more. As Judge Judy says, if it doesn't make sense, it's not true. It just doesn't make sense to penalize those who are givers rather than takers in our society.
Sam Brownback should be ashamed. With all the help and respect he has received from the pro life groups he is sticking his thumb in their collective eyes by supporting Sebelius. Bah! Humbug!
Heard someone say today say it's not right to pay taxes on taxes. So what else is new? This has been going on forever. We could have a contest counting examples.
God bless...........
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Mark Schauer
This is an extra just in case you want to watch Mark Schauer fibbing to the audience about the existence of earmarks.
Photos of Interest to Michigan folks
(Clicking on the picture will get a larger format and clicking on slide show will move it along. Also, if you want to comment on a particular photo, click on a photo on the page with all the small photos.)
Our Lincoln Day Dinner was February 23 at the Arbor Hills Golf Club here in Jackson. As you can see by the photos, we had quite an array of guests and office holders and candidates. The most exciting thing about the evening was the mix of new people who see what is going on with the liberals running the show and the fact that the veterans of many campaigns are not sitting back licking their wounds. We are ready to go and the 19th Senate District is our jumping off place!
I've always tried to keep this blog short so you could depend on not having to spend a ton of your precious time reading or repeating thoughts already uttered. Tonight is no exception.
God bless...........
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Can't Live With 'em/Can't Melt 'em Down?
A few days ago this was a reference to Transformers, but today we see similarities between both the Democrats and the Republicans who can use the same Motto above.
Harry Reid is jealous of Nancy Pelosi who has a burr under her saddle against Joe Biden who can't stand the fact that he has "Vice" in front of his name and has to play second banana and no one is really standing too close to Obama because nothing he says lately makes things look any better. How is it that he knows so many crooks and cheaters? It can't be all Illinois, can it? Maybe it's just the Democrat family.
Candidates Romney and Huckabee throw stones at McCain while Steele starts a little rumble with the self-anointed El-Rushbo (sp?) and Newt Gingrich stands on the sidelines trying to make points with anyone who wants to pair up. Republicans are floundering while trying to figure out what happened over the past 8 years and there is so much finger pointing going on it's hard to tell the players without a program.
It goes all the way from the top to the bottom and frankly I think we'd better start listening to each other rather than just interrupting or waiting to get a word in edgewise. We have new top leadership at local, state and national levels with all the subsets inbetween. The power struggles have just begun. We need to stop this!
We have folks who have just come on the scene trying to tell the old timers how to "change." Do they really think they have a prayer if they take out the right to life plank? Do they know what base means? They are so right when they point out the speck, or plank-depending on the amount of the spending, in the eyes of those who just had to keep up with the Democrats trying to buy allegiance of the voters. But that's not the only problem and Johnny one-notes don't really get it.
If it weren't so darned important it would be tempting to just sit back and watch the show, but even though the newbies are making our jobs harder, we'll just have to suck it up and work twice as hard. I guess you could say we're used to it.
Remember, prayer is God's wireless and undoubtedly the best electronic media going.
Sleep well......
Harry Reid is jealous of Nancy Pelosi who has a burr under her saddle against Joe Biden who can't stand the fact that he has "Vice" in front of his name and has to play second banana and no one is really standing too close to Obama because nothing he says lately makes things look any better. How is it that he knows so many crooks and cheaters? It can't be all Illinois, can it? Maybe it's just the Democrat family.
Candidates Romney and Huckabee throw stones at McCain while Steele starts a little rumble with the self-anointed El-Rushbo (sp?) and Newt Gingrich stands on the sidelines trying to make points with anyone who wants to pair up. Republicans are floundering while trying to figure out what happened over the past 8 years and there is so much finger pointing going on it's hard to tell the players without a program.
It goes all the way from the top to the bottom and frankly I think we'd better start listening to each other rather than just interrupting or waiting to get a word in edgewise. We have new top leadership at local, state and national levels with all the subsets inbetween. The power struggles have just begun. We need to stop this!
We have folks who have just come on the scene trying to tell the old timers how to "change." Do they really think they have a prayer if they take out the right to life plank? Do they know what base means? They are so right when they point out the speck, or plank-depending on the amount of the spending, in the eyes of those who just had to keep up with the Democrats trying to buy allegiance of the voters. But that's not the only problem and Johnny one-notes don't really get it.
If it weren't so darned important it would be tempting to just sit back and watch the show, but even though the newbies are making our jobs harder, we'll just have to suck it up and work twice as hard. I guess you could say we're used to it.
Remember, prayer is God's wireless and undoubtedly the best electronic media going.
Sleep well......
Monday, March 2, 2009
KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE BALL!!
It really doesn't matter whether the beginning of the bear market was a comspiracy by Obama's big money friends like Soros, Buffett and Gates to get him elected. It got the market rolling downhill and now it is going faster and faster and faster.
It could be also that once it started it became out of control and the end result is that no one knows what to do now.
The golden tones of the President have had no effect whatsoever, but ever the opportunist he is making the most of the situation. Are you reminded of the shell game where the guy keeps things moving so fast you lose sight of the walnut or cup with the pea or whatever is under it? Magicians use distraction so their sleight of hand is not detected and now Obama is using it to cover the extreme liberals in his administration while he pursues his liberal targets of socialized medicine and the nationalization of certain businesses plus moving abortion into the infanticide column as he moved the issue in Illinois.
Now we hear the AG Holder has promised the crooks coming from Mexico that federal raids on marijuana medical dispensaries are being curtailed. Even the Mexican government is having a hissy fit over that one. After the gangland stuff we talked about last night it looks like Holder is playing right into their hands and taking us right along with them.
And all the while he talks about reaching across party lines........ Does he still have most of us mesmerized? We can only hope and pray not.
Sleep well if you can........(22% of the population admits to being so worried about the economy that they are loosing sleep.)
It could be also that once it started it became out of control and the end result is that no one knows what to do now.
The golden tones of the President have had no effect whatsoever, but ever the opportunist he is making the most of the situation. Are you reminded of the shell game where the guy keeps things moving so fast you lose sight of the walnut or cup with the pea or whatever is under it? Magicians use distraction so their sleight of hand is not detected and now Obama is using it to cover the extreme liberals in his administration while he pursues his liberal targets of socialized medicine and the nationalization of certain businesses plus moving abortion into the infanticide column as he moved the issue in Illinois.
Now we hear the AG Holder has promised the crooks coming from Mexico that federal raids on marijuana medical dispensaries are being curtailed. Even the Mexican government is having a hissy fit over that one. After the gangland stuff we talked about last night it looks like Holder is playing right into their hands and taking us right along with them.
And all the while he talks about reaching across party lines........ Does he still have most of us mesmerized? We can only hope and pray not.
Sleep well if you can........(22% of the population admits to being so worried about the economy that they are loosing sleep.)
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Addendum on Gangs
Watched more Gangland on the History Channel that was taped a couple of weeks ago and was horrified to see that the gang members are joining the military partly as a way to learn methods of using weapons, stealth and ways to hone their "craft." There were photos of the gangland graffiti taken in Baghdad that were duplicates of what can be found in Los Angeles.
One thought: they are even worse than the Mafia. Their "families" exist for the pleasure, pure and simple, of doing violence to innocents. And they take innocents as young as 11 years old and train them to kill with no remorse--to take pleasure in inflicting pain and killing is a by-product. At least the Godfathers had a soft spot for family members, relatives and neighbors, and children. These ________, you fill in the blank, have nothing which could conceivably redeem their actions.
This is mindful of the parable of casting out demons and healing which and Jesus said could only happen through prayer. Let's not forget the proverb-pray as though everything depends on God and work as though everything depends on you. It's going to take everything we have to stop this activity.
Speaking of parables I'm beginning to think that the only way we can get the message through to the public who consider Obama a messiah is to talk in parables. We need to demonstrate what will be the future of our children and future generations if he is successful in bringing about a government which controls the people the way we are headed. We should be telling stories which show that future generations will do the kinds of jobs the government deems appropriate for each individual and where no one will be able to start a business doing what one loves because if it's successful the tax will destroy it.
Let's start using our imaginations to educate others.
God bless........
One thought: they are even worse than the Mafia. Their "families" exist for the pleasure, pure and simple, of doing violence to innocents. And they take innocents as young as 11 years old and train them to kill with no remorse--to take pleasure in inflicting pain and killing is a by-product. At least the Godfathers had a soft spot for family members, relatives and neighbors, and children. These ________, you fill in the blank, have nothing which could conceivably redeem their actions.
This is mindful of the parable of casting out demons and healing which and Jesus said could only happen through prayer. Let's not forget the proverb-pray as though everything depends on God and work as though everything depends on you. It's going to take everything we have to stop this activity.
Speaking of parables I'm beginning to think that the only way we can get the message through to the public who consider Obama a messiah is to talk in parables. We need to demonstrate what will be the future of our children and future generations if he is successful in bringing about a government which controls the people the way we are headed. We should be telling stories which show that future generations will do the kinds of jobs the government deems appropriate for each individual and where no one will be able to start a business doing what one loves because if it's successful the tax will destroy it.
Let's start using our imaginations to educate others.
God bless........
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