Doncha jus luv em"

Doncha just luv em"

 

If my conservative friends and fellow citizens were not so silly and pathetic, I could almost get upset at their rantings and ravings.  Unfortunately I find myself in the crazy position of actually being able to read and to use my own mind without the need to jump into a line of other sheep who will gladly do my thinking for me.   I just find it more to my liking to be able to first hear a story, then do a little research and then, and only then, actually use my own mind to make my own decision on whether to accept the initial story.  And….I do this without even one person forcing tea down my throat.  Here are just a few of the items I have had a chance to mull over in the last few weeks.  Please dear friends note that I am not proselytizing in the big conservative tent.  I am only voicing my own opinion without the need for sheep to follow, tea merchants, or any preconceived notions about my own superb intellect or the failing and faltering mental capabilities my dear and cherished conservative buddies.   OK, here goes:

 

The tragedy of 9/11 resulted in an immediate death toll of almost 3,000 of this nations citizens and non-citizens who were doing nothing more earning a living as best they could.  Now over a decade later, there is another statistics that is surprising.  In the US during this time period over 250,000 of those same citizens died as a result of the free exercise of our 2^nd amendment rights to own handguns.  As a result of 9/11 Americans have been frightened into surrendering many of their personal rights and sense of privacy.  We now accept that our phone lines, computers, medical records, library records, personal mail and bank accounts are a matter of free discussion now among our Government employees, all for the loss of 3,000 of our cherished men and women.  However after a quarter million bloody deaths our answer has been to even further ease any remaining restrictions on the purchase and carrying of handguns.  In Virginia they want to allow concealed weapons in churches.  I am not sure what "protection" a citizen needs in church but if it that tough maybe they should consider another church or bible studies at home.  But, hey, as an old War Vet whose does not see the need for any weapons in my home, what the heck do I know.  

 

My conservative buddies see the issue of abortion to be so overwhelmingly important that in the face of financial collapse, they chose to argue the issue of direct and indirect funding for abortions to debate.  This debate goes on even as we was continue to have one a health system that now is rated right along with other third world nations (#23 in the world), failing educational preparedness for our next generation, endemic hunger for our most vulnerable citizens, the poor and the aged, collapsing infrastructure for our transportation systems, 30 million unemployed, and the list goes on…but interfering with a women's right to make her own decisions simply flies in the face of a political policy that demands lockstep allegiance for all of its policy's.  With whatever few dollars that fall out of the wallets of the very wealthy tax break recipients, I hope someone can amass enough money to at least begin to clean up our alleys.  Women will be using them a lot more in the future I fear and I would hope that they can be cleaned up a bit first. 

I saw the President's budget hit the street yesterday and literally within a matter of minutes, it was being universally attacked by my conservative buddies.  This is a document that is literally measured in pounds and not pages, yet my buddies were apparently able to speed read that multi-thousand pages of unbelievably complex mathmatics and bookkeeping jingo and to form opinions on the worth of this document all in a matter if minutes.  Yet, this is the same group if electorates that noted they were not given sufficient time to read the 2,000 pages of the health care bill with which to make a knowledgeable decision.  They only had a little over nine months and that did not seem sufficient but a document three times that size and far more complex required only minutes to completely study and research enough to make broad statements concerning the documents worth.  Ya just got to luv that kind of stupity… Oh well I am sure they have a better solution.  I mean they have had over a year to produce a solution considering that this is a document that was suppose to be submitted in September 2010 and contains the budget for fiscal year 2010-2011.  This would have been before the November 2010 elections so my liberal buddies have to share the blame but only until November.  Since then it has been all a Conservative dog and pony show and I am sure they have their own budget document ready to go…What's that – They Don't.  I mean they have had over a year.  Well when will they be ready to submit a budget for the year that is almost half gone now?  According to the good old boy in the GOP – look for it around April.   That's pretty good since three months after that, the budget for 2012 will be due.  Good luck Tea Party girls and boys.  But heck since most of you newbies are sleeping on cots in your office you should have plenty of time on your hands.  Now there is dignity for you – a cot in a Federal building…Tough living on $176,400 a year plus benefits. 

 

But like I said…these are only my opinions and unlike my conservative friends, they reflect my thoughts and my thoughts only…no poking from the sidelines or cue cards in the back row.

 

 

All "new" ideas

NEW BLOG STUFF

 

Sigh…it seems that the politicos in this nation have not had a new idea
since the founding of this country.   Here a few "ideas" that have hit the
media circuit recently and unfortunately as a hobby historian I am usually
struck rather dumb at the ignorance that seems to accompany this comment.

Texas, yippee kai yeh…has tossed around the term "secession from the Union"
as though they made up the concept themselves.  In fact, secession is not
specifically forbidden by our Constitution and in fact, the 18th Century
Confederacy was in fact, within their rights to peacefully withdraw from the
United States.  However, the way it was done was anything but peaceful –
just ask the beleaguered soldiers at Ft. Sumpter.   Also lest anyone believe
this was a popular decision fully approved by the people of the new
Confederacy I refer you the tons of documents published on both sides that
positively prove otherwise.  In fact, it was small groups of wealthy landowners and
slave owners met in rooms in hotel lobbies and South Carolina State Houses who
spoke FOR the citizens without any type of vote or popular acclamation and
decreed their intent to withdraw from the Union.  Other States followed suit
but not even one of them made any attempt to exercise any form of common
suffrage.  The Union did over reach its authority but at least in the
beginning initial actions directed at the Confederacy were to avenge
military actions taken on the part of the Confederacy and an attempt by the
Union to reclaim and secure national properties lying within this new group
of States.  Now Texas wants to pull that rip cord again but it is obvious
they have not given due consideration as to the consequences.  Just give a
quick thought to the three or four dozen US owned military facilities that
lie within Texan borders.  Now toss in the hundreds, if not thousands of
Federally owned properties, office buildings, Parks, etc.  the "Union" would
have the right to reclaim and secure.  Pretty soon Texas would only have Gilley's

and the old set for Dallas to call their own.  I personally would not miss Texans

nor their rather obnoxious citizens.  On the other hand dealing with a million Lone

Star guzzling idiots with huge belt buckles and silly hats is not something I would

find to be enjoyable even if it probably would not take more than a long weekend

to complete. 

 

In my own "hme State" of Virginia (at least for tax purposes), they are hell bent

On reliving another wonderful aspect of the pre-Civil War days – the idea of

"nullification." In the mid-1980s, the forming confederate states, though still part

of the Un ion, decided that they did not have to accept laws originating from the

central government in Washington.  Originally these efforts were directed at

tariffs being levied on Southern cotton exports but eventually spread to the whole

concept of slavery and all things they chose to lay under the single mantel of

"States Rights."  Virginia wants to enact its own version of nullification that would

give the State broad based authority to disregard any and all laws originating outside

of Virginia which they chose to ignore.  Right now the law is targeted at the

administrations health care law but would also apply to other areas already mentioned

such as  prayer in school and other public facilities, equal rights provisions,

abortion rights and virtually all aspects of  EPA imposed regulations.  Here is

another State that needs to do a little historic research before it lets its mouth overload

its arse.  You don't play by our rules, we (the US Government) would simply take our

ball ($$$) and go home.  Most mega-mouths like the Virginia Attorney General 

Mr. Cuccinelli) have no idea just how much financial support the separate States receive

And just how much of that money is based on compliance for continued support.  Make

no effort to enforce traffic laws and watch how quick the States lose millions in fuel

tax money.  Refuse to fulfill national norms in education and you might as well close

all of your schools since the Fed provides literally billions to school systems that

would have to be made up with increased real estate taxes.  Decide to ignore EPA

guidelines and rules and the State would soon become unlivable in terms of water

purity, air waste management.  Good Luck with this Virginia but don't look now –

there are evil liberals hiding in your State who are prepared to remain loyal to the

United States and would make your life rather miserable in the process.

 

Yes, lets all look back to the really great things that the Confederacy gave to the

World and United States in particular.  Let's try emulate their wonderful ideas so

That we can again relive that great time in our history.   Yeh- right!!!!