While the rest of America continues to drain a large portion of their weekly pay checks into their gas tanks....those in America with the easiest jobs head home for five weeks of summer vacation.
I am not talking about teachers here. I am talking about the US Congress. I have never known anyone to have a job that pays so much (McCain reportedly earns 163,000 as a Senator) that works so little.
I agree with the Republicans on this one. Not just because I am a card carrying member of the Republican party, but because I think we have suffered long enough. The only reason I am a card carrying member of the Republican party is so I can vote in the primaries...and I am closer to being Republican than I am to being Democrat.
Mr. President, if you do one thing right in your last few months as the Boss, call Congress back to work. Make them do their jobs and help their constituents - do not allow them to vacation, rest, and leisure for over a month while the rest of us take on second and third jobs just to fill our gas tanks.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
To help the US get out of Iraq...the rest of the world needs to help Iraq
Now were banning Iraq from the Olympics. The IOC needs to work with Iraq to bring them onto the world stage and stop treating them like a red-headed step child. So there are problems with the Iraqi National Olympic Committee. With time before the opening ceremony and the start of the Olympics; wouldn't it be better to give the Iraqi's something to unite for...like six athletes competing at the Olympics?
I was in Iraq when the soccer team had it's better than average run at the soccer championship..and guess what...the country was quite content with not fighting so much and watching their soccer games. We could almost guarantee an ambush or an IED (improvised explosive device) after games when Iraq lost, but so long as they were winning...things were quite (At least in the area that I was in, cannot speak for the entire country). So the IOC, much like the Democratic Party is causing the military in Iraq more hardship, because now once again we are not treating Iraq like a sovereign nation, but an occupied territory.
Lets start giving Iraq's the international respect they deserve.
I was in Iraq when the soccer team had it's better than average run at the soccer championship..and guess what...the country was quite content with not fighting so much and watching their soccer games. We could almost guarantee an ambush or an IED (improvised explosive device) after games when Iraq lost, but so long as they were winning...things were quite (At least in the area that I was in, cannot speak for the entire country). So the IOC, much like the Democratic Party is causing the military in Iraq more hardship, because now once again we are not treating Iraq like a sovereign nation, but an occupied territory.
Lets start giving Iraq's the international respect they deserve.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Catching Wild Pigs
An interesting read for anyone who is interested. I got this in an email today and could not help but sharing with everyone.
Catching Wild Pigs
>
> A chemistry professor in a large college had some
> exchange students in the class. One day while the class was
> in session the lab professor noticed one young man (exchange
> student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his
> back hurt.
>
> The professor asked the young man what was the
> matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his
> back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his
> native country who were trying to overthrow his
> country's government and install a new
> communist government.
>
> In the midst of his story he looked at the professor
> and asked a strange question. He asked, 'Do you know
> how to catch wild pigs?'
>
> The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the
> punch line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You
> catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods
> and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin
> to come every day to eat the
> free corn. When they are used to coming every day,
> you put a fence down one side of the place where they are
> used to coming.
>
> When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat
> the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.
> They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue
> until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate
> on the last side. When the pigs, who are used to the free
> corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the
> gate on them and catch the whole herd.
>
> Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They
> run around and around inside the fence, but they are
> caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are
> so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the
> woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
>
> The young man then told the professor that is exactly
> what he sees happening to America. The government keeps
> pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free
> corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental
> income, tax credit for
> unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies,
> payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine,
> drugs, etc.. while we continually lose our freedoms -- just
> a little at a time.
>
> One should always remember: There is no such thing as
> a free lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a
> service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
>
> Also, if you see that all of this wonderful
> government 'help' is a problem confronting the
> future of democracy in America , you might want to send
> this on to your friends.
>
> If you think the free ride is essential to your way
> of life then you will probably delete this email, but God
> help you when the gate slams shut!
>
> In this 'very important' election year,
> listen closely to what the candidates are promising you !!
>
> Just maybe you will be able to tell who is about to
> slam the gate on America.
>
> 'A government big enough to give you everything
> you want, is big enough to take away everything you
> have.' -Thomas Jefferson
In other words, its time to take politics back from politicians and back into the hands of the free citizens. We are no longer America, Land of the Free, we are America, Land of the Politician.
Mit
Catching Wild Pigs
>
> A chemistry professor in a large college had some
> exchange students in the class. One day while the class was
> in session the lab professor noticed one young man (exchange
> student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his
> back hurt.
>
> The professor asked the young man what was the
> matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his
> back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his
> native country who were trying to overthrow his
> country's government and install a new
> communist government.
>
> In the midst of his story he looked at the professor
> and asked a strange question. He asked, 'Do you know
> how to catch wild pigs?'
>
> The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the
> punch line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You
> catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods
> and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin
> to come every day to eat the
> free corn. When they are used to coming every day,
> you put a fence down one side of the place where they are
> used to coming.
>
> When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat
> the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.
> They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue
> until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate
> on the last side. When the pigs, who are used to the free
> corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the
> gate on them and catch the whole herd.
>
> Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They
> run around and around inside the fence, but they are
> caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are
> so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the
> woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
>
> The young man then told the professor that is exactly
> what he sees happening to America. The government keeps
> pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free
> corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental
> income, tax credit for
> unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies,
> payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine,
> drugs, etc.. while we continually lose our freedoms -- just
> a little at a time.
>
> One should always remember: There is no such thing as
> a free lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a
> service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
>
> Also, if you see that all of this wonderful
> government 'help' is a problem confronting the
> future of democracy in America , you might want to send
> this on to your friends.
>
> If you think the free ride is essential to your way
> of life then you will probably delete this email, but God
> help you when the gate slams shut!
>
> In this 'very important' election year,
> listen closely to what the candidates are promising you !!
>
> Just maybe you will be able to tell who is about to
> slam the gate on America.
>
> 'A government big enough to give you everything
> you want, is big enough to take away everything you
> have.' -Thomas Jefferson
In other words, its time to take politics back from politicians and back into the hands of the free citizens. We are no longer America, Land of the Free, we are America, Land of the Politician.
Mit
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Hats off to you....but next time, stay off the road
I have to give proper respect for anyone who can drink enough alcohol to blow a 0.491. Thats right your reading it right...anyone who can drink that much...and survive...let alone attempt to get behind the wheel of a car...deserves some a round at any bar.
But anyone who is capable of drinking to that level should know not to get behind the wheel of a car.
So in the safe pursuit of a past time we have enjoyed since the repealing of Prohibition, bottoms up ye faithful longneck drinkers. But do so carefully and responsibly, and don't drink and drive...and don't supply minors with alcohol.
Mit.
But anyone who is capable of drinking to that level should know not to get behind the wheel of a car.
So in the safe pursuit of a past time we have enjoyed since the repealing of Prohibition, bottoms up ye faithful longneck drinkers. But do so carefully and responsibly, and don't drink and drive...and don't supply minors with alcohol.
Mit.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Pull Your Pants Up
Finally, someone does something about this stupid trend. There is a waistband on a pair of pants for a reason - to go around a persons waist.
This trend was started in prison - and found its way about the streets after that. And to the ACLU that thinks this law targets young men of color - it is, because they are the most frequent abusers of hte waistline. It has nothing to do with the color of their skin though, and everything to do with regaining an image in this country. I hope more cities follow suit.
Click the title for the link to the article.
Mit.
This trend was started in prison - and found its way about the streets after that. And to the ACLU that thinks this law targets young men of color - it is, because they are the most frequent abusers of hte waistline. It has nothing to do with the color of their skin though, and everything to do with regaining an image in this country. I hope more cities follow suit.
Click the title for the link to the article.
Mit.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Another Blue Moon - Its Getting Scary Around Here.
So, if McCain, in his infinite wisdom is afraid that Social Security is broke, and will not last - she he not be a proponent for not using the system to get your benefits if you obviously do not need it? I am sure with his salary as a Congressman, and his wifes fortune, he can live without the just under two thousand dollars a month he gets from social security.
Now I know, he paid into the benefits program, so he deserves to claim it - well apparently people are getting more Social Security than they paid in or the system would not be in trouble. One of the fixes might be that if you make more 100,000 a year, you don't get to collect social security.
McCain has just put himself aligned with people who abuse government social systems like welfare, Medicaid, etc. Just one more reason why I may not be voting come this election period.
If your wondering what I am ranting about, click the title above, "Another Blue Moon" to be redirected to an article published regarding the issue.
Mit.
Now I know, he paid into the benefits program, so he deserves to claim it - well apparently people are getting more Social Security than they paid in or the system would not be in trouble. One of the fixes might be that if you make more 100,000 a year, you don't get to collect social security.
McCain has just put himself aligned with people who abuse government social systems like welfare, Medicaid, etc. Just one more reason why I may not be voting come this election period.
If your wondering what I am ranting about, click the title above, "Another Blue Moon" to be redirected to an article published regarding the issue.
Mit.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
FEMA and Looters where are you in the Midwest?
Have you noticed that since the start of the tragedy in the Midwest, no one is pining for government help or looting the local Walmart for television sets that obviously won't work under water. Another obvious blight of social conditions that can't be socially related now could it?
Hopefully you are all sitting down, because this does not happen often, in fact when the sun goes down here I am going to go outside and look to see if there is a blue moon tonight, or even just a full moon; because Mit is about to post something pro-Barack Obama.
I commend him, for being an African-American running for President, and making a comment to other African-Americans to basically stop being lazy and expecting handouts for age old repression claims, and to do something productive about bettering their way of life.
Do not get me wrong, I am not a racist, nor am I a bigot. I do however have a problem with social dregs who feel that society owes them something, and sit around waiting for handouts. This is not an issue that is race related, there are all types of social leeches and pariahs out there. We need to work together as a society to remove such blights to make ourselves look better. Society has but nothing to gain by eliminating the possibility for someone to wait for a handout.
Get a job. Contribute to society. Crime and handouts are not options.
Mit.
Hopefully you are all sitting down, because this does not happen often, in fact when the sun goes down here I am going to go outside and look to see if there is a blue moon tonight, or even just a full moon; because Mit is about to post something pro-Barack Obama.
I commend him, for being an African-American running for President, and making a comment to other African-Americans to basically stop being lazy and expecting handouts for age old repression claims, and to do something productive about bettering their way of life.
Do not get me wrong, I am not a racist, nor am I a bigot. I do however have a problem with social dregs who feel that society owes them something, and sit around waiting for handouts. This is not an issue that is race related, there are all types of social leeches and pariahs out there. We need to work together as a society to remove such blights to make ourselves look better. Society has but nothing to gain by eliminating the possibility for someone to wait for a handout.
Get a job. Contribute to society. Crime and handouts are not options.
Mit.
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