A really beautiful day here in Beautiful Dunwoody so I took my little 2001 BMW Z3 out for a spin with the top down. This car is one of the very few cars that I bought brand new. It was thirteen years ago about this time of the year that I bought it. I don’t drive it too much any more. It’s only got around 53K miles on it.
I don’t really feel in the mood for writing anything so I’ll post sumpin’ by Ron.
Listening to the latest pontificate-or-perish bloviation about Malay Flight 370 this morning. One woman was saying that CNN is the biggest offender in putting up banners announcing “Breaking News” about the situation when in fact all they’re doing is echoing and rehashing previous announcements, commentaries, analyses, and speculations.
And saying stupid stuff. Don’t know if this is Photoshopped or not, but it looks like sumpin’ CNN would post.
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Someone else said that ALL networks, including the alphabets and even Fox are guilty of the same thing – repeating what’s already been said and calling it “Breaking News.” CNN’s ratings have almost doubled since they began round-the-clock coverage of Flight 370’s disappearance. Struck me that what’s going on is a feeding frenzy about a mystery involving a missing airplane to avoid calling out Barracco Bomber on his ACA fiasco as well as his fubar foreign affairs policy.
But today, the LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party is crowing that Obummercare is a “success”. Let’s see. 80% of the people enrolling are getting gummint subsidies. That’s called a “success” by Dimocrats and their propaganda arm. Creating more debt. The people who need to enroll are young people and one of the hindrances there is that young people under 26 can stay on their parent’s policies.
Got to thinking about what in fact Barracco’s policy IS, so let me do some pontificating. Seems to me it breaks down to just a few things:
Win political battles to maintain power for Democrats
Dontcha wish he hated our enemies as much as he hates Republicans? Stopping Putin? Nope. Stopping Republicans from taking over the Senate? Yep.
Evict the god of Jews and Christians in favor of a moon god dreamt up by a hash-addicted pedophile
Remember his Mooslime speech about how Islam has been part of America since its beginning? The only Mooslimes I can think of are the Barbary pirates and the barbarian savages who flew airplanes into the WTC. And now NASA’s most important mission is Mooslime outreach. If Obutthead were a closet Mooslime what would he be doing differently?
Get rid of Israel for good and replace it with Paleo-Sty
Amnestize all Latino illegals so that they can vote for Democrats
He has idiots like McRINO, Rubio, and Boner helping him there.
Level the playing field for Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, and Islam by cancelling US military superiority
Remember, he canceled a missile defense system in Poland and Czechoslovakia while getting nothing in return from Putin. He really is Putin’s bitch isn’t he?
Force investment capital and manufacturing out of the US
Penalize individual success and reward unemployed freeloaders
Food stamp recipients are at all time highs. Dimocrats love poor people. That’s why they create so many of them. Poor people are easier to control.
Redefine “civil rights” as “taxpayer-funded entitlements”
Replace entrepreneurs and free enterprise with labor unions
Obungler didn’t bail out GM, he bailed out the UAW.
Reorganize education to teach children WHAT to think, not HOW to think
Repeat lies so often that public resistance to them is eliminated
Disarm the populace to avoid civil unrest
Stifle political opposition by declaring it racist
I said that when Obeavis first started running that any opposition to any of his policies would be deemed racist. Did I nail it or what?
Substitute political correctness for truth
Terrorism is now “man caused disasters”. Mooslimes are really great at causing man caused disasters.
Eliminate all use of fossil fuels in the US
Update the US Constitution to conform with the Liberals’ agenda
Ignore the growing debt and wait for the mass extinction event
The problem with our political system is that it’s based on a two-party adversarial approach based on nothing but winning. Very few people in D.C. are the least bit interested in “what’s good for the country” unless it meshes neatly with what’s good for their own party.
I have this argument with friends who say winning is important. I say, if they’re gonna act like Dimocrats, what’s the point in winning?
What we typically hear is that “Harry Reid won a significant political victory today” or “House Republicans defeated an attempt by Democrats to _________.” Every major election breaks the nation down into “red” and “blue states” and clear lines of distinction are drawn between “Liberal” and “Conservative” districts or regions.
I can’t remember the last time I heard a major network discuss a crucial issue or decision on a major problem NOT in terms of whether the Democrats or the Republicans won but whether the American PEOPLE won.
And the American people have lost a lot during the Obumbler administration and the people who have lost the most are blacks. They did better under Reagan and both Bushes than they have under Oblunder, but skin color trumps reality.
And the only way to remedy that situation would be to get rid of seniority (or what amounts to tenure) in the legislature and eliminate the attraction of making Congress a career. The first step in that solution would be establishment of term limits, and the second would be pay and benefits reductions.
Our founders did not envision career politicians or that being members of Congress would be a full time job. One of the worst things that happened is the invention of air-conditioning which made Washington DC livable during the summer. They envisioned a citizen legislature where people would serve for a few terms and then go back to their farms or shops or jobs. They did not envision today’s ruling class who are a bunch of overpaid parasites. You would think they could earn enough from graft and bribery and wouldn’t need the lavish pay and pensions that they have voted themselves. I would love to buy our congresscritters for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. C’mon, do you think Corinne “gradulate the gator” Brown or Sheila “Is the Mars rover anywhere near where the astronauts planted the flag?” Jackson Lee could make anywhere near the money they are making if they actually had to work for a living?
Over 50% of the members of the US Congress, both Senators and Representatives, are millionaires (net worth). So why are they paid a minimum of $175,000 per annum with a wide range of benefits including expenses to run their offices both in the Capitol and back in their home districts? How can they POSSIBLY identify with the average citizen in flyover country with access to that kind of funding?
They can’t. That’s why I refer to them as the ruling class. That’s what they are and the rest of us are commoners.
In 6 House terms or 2 Senate terms, those millionaires will be paid ANOTHER 2 million bucks, not counting expenses and benefits. (Incidentally, the Obama “family” costs US taxpayers over $1 Billion per annum while the British royal family costs about $65 Million to support.)
The Obongos are really uppity black folk aren’t they? Remember how the Dimocrats and the LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party went off on Bush for all the vacations he took AT HIS OWN RANCH? Me too. Moochelle travels all over the world at our expense. She even takes her mother along with her.
Not only that, but 60% of US Senators and almost 40% of US Representatives are lawyers. Google for the # of millionaires and for lawyers in Congress. Also, many in Congress actually have law degrees, but don’t declare it because they’re engaged in other fields, such as medicine, teaching, real estate, analysts, and so on. What’s also interesting is that Slick and Shrillary both had their law licenses invalidated, as has Mooch.
Now I certainly don’t begrudge anyone’s becoming rich, and I would normally applaud anyone who runs for office to serve a community, or a state, or the country. And it would seem logical to hire people who have demonstrable success in their chosen professions. But I don’t see why we need to have PACs which accumulate millions to support candidates running for national office, and I can’t see why they need to convene so often at taxpayers’ expense, including air travel, office space, staffs, limos, lunchrooms, and so on.
I’d say that anybody who’s already a millionaire and will make another million over the next half-dozen years as a senator or congressman can buy his own lunch, pay for his own airplane tickets, and do most of his work by teleconference from his state or regional office.
Also, considering how costly and corrupt elections have become, I really can’t see any reason for actually electing senators or representatives to national office. Very few people today can name their senators, and most simply voter straight ticket anyway. Since most elections are little more than popularity contests, let’s just have the governors appoint the senators and representatives to the US legislature.
They could post their nominees on line say, a hundred days or so before the actual appointment time, and anyone who objects could do so formally in writing. Fewer than half the people vote in elections to begin with, and once term limits and salary reductions are in place, corruption would already be reduced. Then if a senator or representative displays incompetence or unpatriotic or corrupt behavior, recall elections could get him or her out of office.
As a matter of fact, I doubt that if you went out on the street and asked a thousand ordinary citizens to explain recall and referendum to you, less than a hundred could do it. Most probably believe that, like civil service workers, once they have the job they’re not fireable. And that’s something else we need to fix.
