09-11-09...JUST ANOTHER DAY?

Is today just like any other day? You would think so in my neighborhood...



No flags flying but mine; a sad thing to behold.



Have we forgotten the cowardly attack on the Twin Towers so quickly? Have we forgotten how we felt as the news reports came in and what started out to a terrible accident (we thought) was revealed as a carefully planned attack on freedom? As I watched Obama call for a "national day of service" I realized more than ever that he just doesn't get it. Does the POTUS not know that for many of us EVERY day is a day of service? Well, in his defense, he was not raised in a family or neighborhood that involved much community service; unless of course you count his years with ACORN, for which he was well paid...



In my world volunteers do everything from delivering food to shut-ins to running fire departments to collecting food for the poor, and the government has darn little to do with it; where Obama lives, if Mommy Government doesn't do it, it doesn't get done.



So far, our tax dollars have funded ACORN to the tune of over FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS...that's 50 with six more zeros behind it. And what do we have to show for our money? Massive voter registration fraud, millions in home loans for people who could never hope to even pay the interest on their mortage, aid in defrauding the IRS for prostitutes and pimps, and many other sordid dealings. There's service for ya...



A day of service? Many of my friends have accumulated a LIFETIME of service; a foreign idea to the loony left. Just insist that Mommy Government create another entitlement. What's another trillion dollars among we rich people, right?



If we really want to commemorate the attack, we should all remember how we felt on 9-12-01 and build on that anger, that sense of national patriotism and pride, that "Lets Roll" determination. Lets try. Please.

Froggy Went a Bloggin' He Did Go...

So, what can we learn from the frog in boiling water? More than one might think.


They say if you put a frog in boiling water, he will immediately jump out. Smart froggy. However, if you put the frog in cool water and gradually increase the heat, he will be lulled into a false sense of security and just relax until he ever so gradually becomes well-done…and dead, by the way.

Smart people, like smart froggies, will learn much from this story. It all began in the race for the Whitehouse, and it will all end…well, we will see.

First, we have a smooth-talking snake oil salesman who attended a church wherein America was the enemy. He hung out with the likes of Bill “the Bomber” Ayers for the sake of a few dollars and political expediency. He was pretty much the most radical left-wing elected official in Illinois (Chicago, no less…). He sponsored legislation that would outlaw ALL handguns and ALL semi-automatic weapons (do you suppose he meant full-automatic but was just too uninformed to really know the difference?). He rubbed elbows with ACORN, arguably the most corrupt political organization since Tammany Hall.

Then came the highly polished, newly repackaged model who was the most inexperienced, unlikely candidate for the presidency his party had seen in a long time. With less than one year on the national front, he was at first dismissed by the other candidates on both sides. He read his canned speeches from a carefully programmed teleprompter, being sure to say many, many words while revealing nothing. He promised hope and joy and blue skies and change and, and, and…well, just about everything. At least one woman interviewed by the “media” heard him say that she would have her car and house payments taken care of as soon as the guy was elected. And no one in the media bothered to advise her that he really hadn’t said that. Or maybe they heard it too. They were so in-the-tank for the messiah that no one bothered to search for the truth. They just marched ever forward, ever onward, chanting “HOPE…CHANGE…HOPE…CHANGE…” like lemmings off the cliff. Suddenly their legion was many. Hey, the water is starting to really warm up and feeeellls goooood!

Then he started to pile up primary wins. Jabberin’ Joe Biden and Hillary the Witch (ha, you thought I was gonna say the B word like the rest of America) started slamming him on the mat every time the TV lights came on. “The Presidency is no place for on-the-job training” they clambered. Is it just me or is this water getting a little hot?

But bray as they would, the other candidates could not stop the lemming march. On and On, Change and Hope…Lotsa words, fewer and fewer details. The delegate count piled up even higher than the BS. No, it’s not just me, this water is getting HOT!!


Suddenly the candidates were chosen and Election Day had arrived. The New Black Panthers (not a lot different than the OLD Black Panthers) arrived at the polls with nightsticks. Thousands complained because they were asked for an ID at the polls and could only vote once. The NERVE of these republicans…







When the smoke had cleared, Barack Hussein Obama smiled that smile and told Michelle and the kids “C’mon, we’re going to Disneyland”.


OMG, this water is BOILING!!! Let’s get outta here!!


But alas, it was too late. BHO carried and on about the Bush recession and the Bush crowd overspending the budget. So, to make everything OK, BHO and his cronies passed the largest spending spree in the history of the world. The same bunch then passed a stimulus bill that we were told needed to go on the greased rails or automakers would fail. So the stimulus bill took effect, and…automakers failed. General Motors became Government Motors, and the Auto Czar is busy designing a car that will hold two (if they are small), run on sunshine (or perhaps windmills; yet to be determined) and will only cost $247,000 per unit (makes the Hummer look like a Chinese car, doesn’t it? Oh, that’s right the Hummer now IS a Chinese car. Sorry about that, troops). And just how is it these foreign interests can afford to buy our assets? Do the letters UAW and AFL-CIO mean anything to you? Talk about antiques…



Well, as Popeye says, “That’s all I can stands, I can’t stand n’more”! Well, at least for today.


More later. Say goodnight, Barney...

UH-ohhhh...the ACORNS are falling again...

PITTSBURGH — Seven Pittsburgh-area ACORN workers were charged with falsifying voter registration forms, with six accused of doing so to meet the group's alleged quota system before last year's general election.
District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. said he's hoping the workers charged Thursday will help authorities determine whether Allegheny County ACORN officials will be charged with requiring the illegal quotas or otherwise directing that voter registrations be faked.
"You should consider the investigation as ongoing," Zappala said.
Six suspects forged a total of 51 cards, a felony that carries up to seven years in prison. The same six also were charged with illegally accepting payments to meet a quota of 20 registrations per day — a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.
The one defendant not charged with either of those crimes told police he filled out at least 100 voter registration cards in his own name, even though he was already registered and knew it was illegal. He's charged with misdemeanor counts of obstructing and interfering with the elections process, as are several of the others.
Zappala said investigators targeted 100 local ACORN canvassers after county elections officials started noticing dozens of possibly forged registration forms in August. ACORN registered 38,000 new voters in southwestern Pennsylvania, including about 33,600 in the county last year, Zappala said.

And who do you suppose is standing in the way of a congressional investigation of the whole sordid mess? That pillar of truth, justice, and the American Way, BARNEY FRANK...seen here welcoming Bruce, his new intern.

Even John Conyers, who can always be counted on to protect every liberal cause that crosses his desk, was calling for an investigation until his left-wing loony buddies told him to sit down and shut up. Remember, this was the same crowd that rammed the latest "stimulus" bill (I am STILL not feeling very stimulated) down our throats after giving republican congressmen all of eleven hours to read the 700 page document which contained a bundle of YOUR tax money for ACORN and other organizations that support leftist causes...go figure.

Here Barney is captured in a not-so-happy moment when Nancy Pelosi was voted Senate Queen. He was lobbying heavily for the award himself...

At any rate, it now appears that ACORN will once again be given a get-out-of-jail-free card for all past, present, and future offenses against the part of America which chooses the rule of law over the rule of gimme.

Say goodnight, Barney...

While Rome Burned...

As pirates take over American ships, North Korea fires missiles and thumbs it's nose at the world (ESPECIALLY the US), congress votes the biggest single spending bill in the history of the world, terrorists brag of an upcoming attack that will dwarf the New York attack, our president is responding by...well...

By bowing down to Islamic leaders, speaking for us all by saying that the US is not a Christian nation, furnishing an Ipod to the Queen (what a thoughtful diplomatic gift), filling his cabinet with lobbyists and tax cheats, allowing his aids to call terrorists attacks "man-caused disasters" (OMG!!), letting ACORN take over the census, and generally looking like a man who just found a new toy under the Christmas tree (which this year will no doubt be called an Artificial Non-Denominational Holiday Symbolic Planting).

Our president is busying himself appeasing every known enemy of America by assuring them that there's a new sheriff in town and he's hanging his gun under the "Peace Be With You" plaque in the Lincoln bedroom. One might assume that the next directive to the Pentagon will be to email detailed maps of our military installations to Osama Bin Laden as a gesture of kindness and respect for his "freedom fighters".

But our free press, which so dutifully ripped George Bush's guts out and fed them to the hungry masses will certainly expose all this for the smoke screen that it is, right?

Well, no, not exactly. They are filling the pages of their rags with flowery descriptions of the First Lady's apparel, pictures of the First Family at work, play, church, fund-raisers, planting collard greens in the White House lawn (THAT will take care of the egg roll on Easter...), and opining to excess how the savior has arrived and all is well with the world. Poor Chris Matthews has had so many "thrills up his leg" that he can hardly crawl to the microphone to grovel at the chosen one's feet anymore. But he will hang tough, I surmise.

Did you notice how quickly and easily congress and the press changed our financial yard stick from billions to TRILLIONS? I was having a hard enough time relating to billions considering that a couple of days before payday my budget forecast says I will have about $47 left if I control my cigar hobby over the weekend, which by the way should be a little easier since we just had the biggest raise in federal tax on cigars in history. Don't ya love how Obama is looking out for us little folks? And I don't even want to THINK about the outragious increases on guns and ammunition since Obama proposed "reasonable" gun laws...written again, no doubt, by unknown persons who know exactly zero, zilch, nothing about guns or ammunition. The back-door approach work as well as any, as all liberals know...

Well, it is likely to get much worse before it gets any better, so don't forget to attend a tea party near you, or join me at my Virtual Tea Party on Facebook at

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=74504605970&ref=mf#/event.php?eid=58696432643

The Nine Principles

The Nine Principles

Courtesy of Glenn Beck

1. America is good.

2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.

3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.

4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.

5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.

6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.

7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.

8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.

9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.

Then they all STARVED!!!

The Little Red Hen called all of her Democrat neighbors together and said, “If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?”
“Not I,” said the cow.“Not I,” said the duck.“Not I,” said the pig.“Not I,” said the goose.
“Then I will do it by myself,” said the little red hen, and so she did.The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.

“Who will help me reap my wheat?” asked the little red hen.
“Not I,” said the duck.“Out of my classification,” said the pig.“I’d lose my seniority,” said the cow.“I’d lose my unemployment compensation,” said the goose.
“Then I will do it by myself,” said the little red hen, and so she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread.“Who will help me bake the bread?” asked the little red hen.
“That would be overtime for me,” said the cow.“I’d lose my welfare benefits,” said the duck.“I’m a dropout and never learned how,” said the pig.“If I’m to be the only helper, that’s discrimination,” said the goose.
“Then I will do it by myself,” said the little red hen.

She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some, and in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, “No, I shall eat all five loaves.”
“Excess profits!” cried the cow. (Nancy Pelosi)“Capitalist leech!” screamed the duck. (Barbara Boxer)“I demand equal rights!” yelled the goose. (Jesse Jackson)The pig just grunted in disdain. (Ted Kennedy)
And they all painted ‘Unfair!’ picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

Then the farmer (Obama) came. He said to the little red hen, “You must not be so greedy.”
“But I earned the bread,” said the little red hen.
“Exactly,” said Barack the farmer. “That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle.”
And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, “I am grateful, for now I truly understand.”
But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the ‘party’ and got her bread free. And all the Democrats smiled.

‘Fairness’ had been established.

I WANT MY OBAMABUCKS!!!

ARE YOU FEELING STIMULATED YET?


The house has passed the first draft of the so-called stimulus bill...over the objections of all house republicans and several democrats. Now it is time for the senate to act.


And ACT THEY WILL! They will act like they are truly doing what is in our best interest. They will act like this should be a bipartisan vote. They will act like this is JUST what the doctor ordered for our very sick economy.

But there are some things they WON'T do before voting on this mess of disjointed legislation.

They won't tell you that this piece of manure has very little to do with stimulating the economy. They won't tell you that the bill gives tax rebates to people who don't even pay income tax (some of them senators and Obama cabinet nominees apparently). They won't tell you that it is the biggest giveaway of our hard-earned dollars the country has ever seen in one package. They won't tell you that a huge part of the bill is pay-for-play money for those supporting Obama and his whims. Oh yes, including ACORN and other similar vote thieves. They won't tell you they are using the bill as a vehicle for initiating worn-out liberal prograams that would otherwise not pass the smell test. They won't tell tell you that the bill got so out of control that it is beyond repair. They are hoping you won't care enough to find out the truth. And you know something? They are probably right...





The TRUTH is that when Obama called for the house and senate to put politics aside and do the right thing, dems in both houses saw an opportunity to go on a pork-barrel feeding frenzy...and that is exactly what they did. They will try to make conservatives look like obstructionists for standing up against the kind of WASTE that got us in this mess in the first place. OK, sure, blame it on Bush, but he is gone and it's a new ball game. Oh ya, there is one more thing you will never hear from the dems...and that is that anyone with enough initiative to investigate what is transpiring would never re-elect anyone who supported this behemoth! They know you won't try to see the truth because they saw the lemming effect grow to previously unknown dimensions when millions bought the "CHANGE" mantra and elected Obama. And I am betting those millions will never admit they were obviously duped and there IS no change...the crooks just have D's instead of R's behind their names. So much for a transparent presidency...