Morons in the News
As my banner states, this blog is my vehicle to vent about whatever drives me up the walls or floats my boat.
While watching coverage of the floods along the eastern coast I had to suffer through the obligatory morons who think it’s cool to continually walk back and forth behind the reporter while flashing peace signs and jumping up and down with their tongue out and their fingers in their ears while wiggling their hands. Just a thought – You don’t look cool; you look like an idiot. What a proud moment it must be to know you made a fool of yourself on national TV.
Speaking of fools…
A Mexican casino in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey was the victim of arson by gunmen. Let me correct that – the people inside the casino were the victims of arson by gunmen.
An intelligent person would perhaps be upset with the gunmen who perpetrated this attack on innocent people. We aren’t dealing with intelligent people, however. According to former Mexican President, Felipe Calderon it is the fault of firearms coming into Mexico from the U.S.
For those of you who don’t follow this, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, ATF (A carry over from prohibition days in the U.S.) spent several million dollars making sure firearms made it into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. Then they used the flow of firearms into Mexico as the nexus for the need to have tougher gun controls in the U.S. Huh?? It is reported that two of those firearms were used in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol officer. Eleven more deaths in the U.S. have been attributed to some of those firearms allowed to ‘walk’.
But I digress. El Presidente Calderon blames the attack, in part to the flow of firearms from the U.S. into Mexico. Apparently Calderon, in true anti-gun fashion fails to find culpability on the part of the gunmen. They had no choice but to attack the casino, set fire to it in an attack that killed 52 people. If the U.S. hadn’t allowed firearms to flow into the hands of these fun-loving folks who murder, rape and behead their enemies this never would have happened.
Given the thought process of Calderon, Obama and the rest of the anti-gun folks who want to use the 2nd Amendment for toilet paper we should let bank robbers out of prison. After all, they never would have robbed the bank if they hadn’t put the bank there in the first place. It’s not their fault. Firearms are evil and people shouldn’t be allowed to have them.
Perhaps we should disarm the police and the military and have them protect us and themselves with reason and in extreme cases – harsh language. After all, the firearms are evil. The police need those firearms because of bad people with evil intent. Apparently the rest of us don’t need to fear those same bad people.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Virginia
5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Virginia and Sends Shockwaves through East Coast
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Virginia and the east coast.
President Obama is rumored to have promised to appoint a czar and 14-member committee to look into the quake.
It is reported that Obama blames the quake on the Republicans, George Bush and the Tea Party. The President will ask Congress and the Senate for additional money to help rebuild the infrastructure. The money will come from the ‘rich’ who need to pay their fair share.
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Virginia and the east coast.
President Obama is rumored to have promised to appoint a czar and 14-member committee to look into the quake.
It is reported that Obama blames the quake on the Republicans, George Bush and the Tea Party. The President will ask Congress and the Senate for additional money to help rebuild the infrastructure. The money will come from the ‘rich’ who need to pay their fair share.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Why are corpotations leaving the U.S.?
Why are corporations leaving the U.S. and taking $Billions with them?
I just watched a 60 minutes report on U.S. corporations that have moved to places like Zug, Switzerland or Ireland in order to avoid the 35% tax rate they would have to pay here in the U.S.
Hell, yes. Why wouldn’t they? The tax rate in Zug is about 15% and about 12% in Ireland. We’re talking $billions in taxes saved. When they take their business – which may only amount to a mailbox in Zug they take thousands of jobs with them – jobs that would normally go to Americans.
The rest of the industrial world has already learned to lower their tax rates in order to lure Canadian and U.S. corporations. In fact some countries have even offered tax rates of 5% in order to woo corporations to their countries. And why wouldn’t corporations take advantage? They would be stupid not to.
Still, liberals are too sagaciously-challenged to get it. Like in New York where the mantra of liberals was always, “We’ll tax the rich more. They aren’t paying their fair share.” It sounds great if you’re a liberal and you’re talking about someone else’s money. Liberals are always great at putting someone else’s money where their mouth is.
The problem for them was rich people can live wherever they want and they simply moved to Florida or Zug or Ireland where they wouldn’t be screwed without so much as a kiss. And when they left, New York suddenly found was their was a huge vacuum in revenue that was no longer being supplied by ‘the rich’. That means you have to increase taxes on middle-income folks. It’s like Margaret Thatcher was quoted as saying: “Sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
Still, Obama and the rest of his band of morons continue to rant that jobs are the number one priority while at the same time doing all they can to drive them to other countries – along with the opportunity to put more Americans back to work and gain billions of dollars in revenue. You can’t get the liberal mind to understand this. It’s a character flaw they have. They simply refuse to get off their kick of blaming the so-called rich for all the ills of this nation. Liberals and their policies aren’t the solution – they’re the problem!
Another thing you find with liberal politicians is they play to the lazy and uneducated. They have found that if they simply say the rich aren’t paying their fair share they can get the uneducated to believe the lie and give them hope that somehow the liberal politician will make it right by becoming modern day Robin Hoods and taking from the rich and somehow giving it to them.
The reality is these same people offer no real solutions or their own money. On top of that the people who think their life is going to be made better find just the opposite. No worries, though. These folks suffer from battered liberal syndrome. It doesn’t matter. Their mind is made up and they aren’t about to be swayed by the facts.
The liberal ditz, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a prime example of the embarrassment that permeates the Democratic leadership. The Democratic National Committee chair looked into the camera lens and proclaimed the Republicans have offered nothing and Obama’s numbers are in great shape.
How about a little Reality check? The Republicans passed two measures in the House but Senate leader, Harry Reid declared them to be ‘dead-on-arrival’. Meanwhile the Democrats have offered nothing. They were supposed to have a balanced budget over two and a half years ago. They’ve offered nothing! We keep hearing about the plan Obama has. No one has seen it. Nothing has been put in writing. Like the mythical unicorn; it doesn’t exist. Still we keep hearing from the Democrats about the President’s plan. What plan?? There is no plan, aside from destroying this great nation.
As for Obama’s numbers being great… Lady you must be smoking crack. His numbers are in the toilet.
Hope and change? That will happen when Obama and his subversives receive their pink slips in the general election. He will go down as the worst President in American history.
I just watched a 60 minutes report on U.S. corporations that have moved to places like Zug, Switzerland or Ireland in order to avoid the 35% tax rate they would have to pay here in the U.S.
Hell, yes. Why wouldn’t they? The tax rate in Zug is about 15% and about 12% in Ireland. We’re talking $billions in taxes saved. When they take their business – which may only amount to a mailbox in Zug they take thousands of jobs with them – jobs that would normally go to Americans.
The rest of the industrial world has already learned to lower their tax rates in order to lure Canadian and U.S. corporations. In fact some countries have even offered tax rates of 5% in order to woo corporations to their countries. And why wouldn’t corporations take advantage? They would be stupid not to.
Still, liberals are too sagaciously-challenged to get it. Like in New York where the mantra of liberals was always, “We’ll tax the rich more. They aren’t paying their fair share.” It sounds great if you’re a liberal and you’re talking about someone else’s money. Liberals are always great at putting someone else’s money where their mouth is.
The problem for them was rich people can live wherever they want and they simply moved to Florida or Zug or Ireland where they wouldn’t be screwed without so much as a kiss. And when they left, New York suddenly found was their was a huge vacuum in revenue that was no longer being supplied by ‘the rich’. That means you have to increase taxes on middle-income folks. It’s like Margaret Thatcher was quoted as saying: “Sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
Still, Obama and the rest of his band of morons continue to rant that jobs are the number one priority while at the same time doing all they can to drive them to other countries – along with the opportunity to put more Americans back to work and gain billions of dollars in revenue. You can’t get the liberal mind to understand this. It’s a character flaw they have. They simply refuse to get off their kick of blaming the so-called rich for all the ills of this nation. Liberals and their policies aren’t the solution – they’re the problem!
Another thing you find with liberal politicians is they play to the lazy and uneducated. They have found that if they simply say the rich aren’t paying their fair share they can get the uneducated to believe the lie and give them hope that somehow the liberal politician will make it right by becoming modern day Robin Hoods and taking from the rich and somehow giving it to them.
The reality is these same people offer no real solutions or their own money. On top of that the people who think their life is going to be made better find just the opposite. No worries, though. These folks suffer from battered liberal syndrome. It doesn’t matter. Their mind is made up and they aren’t about to be swayed by the facts.
The liberal ditz, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a prime example of the embarrassment that permeates the Democratic leadership. The Democratic National Committee chair looked into the camera lens and proclaimed the Republicans have offered nothing and Obama’s numbers are in great shape.
How about a little Reality check? The Republicans passed two measures in the House but Senate leader, Harry Reid declared them to be ‘dead-on-arrival’. Meanwhile the Democrats have offered nothing. They were supposed to have a balanced budget over two and a half years ago. They’ve offered nothing! We keep hearing about the plan Obama has. No one has seen it. Nothing has been put in writing. Like the mythical unicorn; it doesn’t exist. Still we keep hearing from the Democrats about the President’s plan. What plan?? There is no plan, aside from destroying this great nation.
As for Obama’s numbers being great… Lady you must be smoking crack. His numbers are in the toilet.
Hope and change? That will happen when Obama and his subversives receive their pink slips in the general election. He will go down as the worst President in American history.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Who's to blame?
Who’s to Blame?
For the first time in history the credit rating of the U.S. has been downgraded below AAA+. That means under the ‘leadership’ (if we can call it that) of President Obama, S&P has put investors on notice that your U.S. bonds are no longer considered by them to be ‘money-in-the-bank’.
The finger-pointing and blame game has wasted no time in commencing. The obligatory, “There is plenty of blame to go around.” and “We need to work together.” is nothing more than rhetoric from people who don’t believe a word they are saying but feel they have to say it in order to seem middle-of-the-road. The fact is the conciliatory language coming from their mouths is nothing more than bravo sierra emanating from an area much lower on the anatomy.
Despite the ‘Let’s play nice and compromise’ language you’re hearing each side is convinced the other side is to blame.
The esteemed congressman from Massachusetts, John Kerry puts the blame squarely on the shoulders of the Tea Party. We have heard claims of the Tea Party being terrorists and holding the nation hostage by putting a gun to their head. I find it fascinating that the party who claims we need to tone down the rhetoric and be less vitriolic is so obsessed with using words like ‘terrorists’, ‘hostages’ and ‘putting a gun to our heads’ language every time they speak.
I think if anyone is to blame it is, in fact the President and the Democrat leadership for putting a gun to our head in order for them to get what they always have had and always will have – more money to waste on ineffectual wasteful programs. The Democrat’s view of ‘compromise’ is, “Give us more money or we’ll tell the American people that you want old people to die and you’re going to take lunch money from the mouths of children.” Every time budget comes up it’s the same rhetoric from the Democrats, “The Republicans want to take your Social Security away and we aren’t sure we can pay the military if you don’t give us more money to waste in order to keep our phony baloney jobs.” For goodness sake, how many times are people going to fall for this same old tired ploy!
Social Security as it stands is unsustainable. If we don’t change the way we’re managing (or not managing) it Social Security will definitely run completely out of money and the Democrat’s crying wolf will finally come to pass.
Fact: We don’t have an income problem.
Fact: Washington has a spending problem
Fact: Like an alcoholic, the Democrats will never admit they have a problem. Admitting you have a problem is the first step.
The left is terrified of people like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Marco Rubio and Texas governor, Rick Perry. Why? It’s because they know these people are the antithesis of every thing liberal politicians stand for. True Conservatives believe in a balanced budget, smaller government. Rick Perry’s state of Texas leads the nation in employment. How is that possible, given the rest of the nation is in shambles under Obama’s ‘Hope and Change’?
Obama and liberal Democrats sound like a broken record, claiming the rich aren’t paying their fair share and the answer to our problems is to simply tax the rich more. If you’re one of the folks who are either habitually unemployed because you’re too lazy to work and have learned to use the system or you make a dollar per year less than your neighbor that sounds pretty good to you.
I am bored hearing about how the rich aren’t paying their fair share. The fact is half of the Americans in this country pay taxes for the other half who don’t pay a dime in taxes. Coincidentally those same folks who don’t pay a dime in taxes are the same ones who believe that way. Creators.com had a cartoon of Obama titled, What did he say? It showed Obama saying, “I won’t allow the half of Americans who pay no taxes to bear the burden of the other half who aren’t paying their fair share.” Bada Bing!
Am I without compassion? Hell, no! I’m mad as hell that there are poor single mothers out there who are willing to work two and three jobs in order to support themselves and their kids because she can’t get enough money to live on after every one else has bellied up to the government teat. I feel sorry for the elderly who worked hard all their life and thought they would be retired by now and finally enjoying the fruits of their hard labor, only to find Obama’s ‘Hope and Change’ has wiped out their 401K and change is all they have left. I feel sorry for the disabled who can't work, though no fault of their own or the widow who's husbands life savings can no longer sustain her because Obama's policies have caused interest rates to tank. I feel sorry for the husband who can't find a job because Obama's policies have destroyed so many of them and he has to flip hamburgers or work in a convenience store just to put food on the table. Those are the people I have compassion for.
Talk about holding a gun to someone’s head! That’s exactly what Obama and the liberal politicians in Washington did. They metaphorically put a gun to Conservative’s collective head and said, “Just give us the money and we’ll put the gun down.” To them that’s what compromise is. If you don’t give them more money to spend that we don't have they'll claim you aren’t compromising and you're mean spirited.
Has it dawned on anyone that the Democrats were supposed to have a budget over two and a half years ago? We keep hearing from Democrats about the President’s budget plan. What budget plan! He hasn’t put one on paper but we keep hearing about it. Where is it? I’d like to see it. I’d like folks who are much smarter than me to look at it and tell us if the plan will work at reducing the deficit and create jobs so we can get back on financial track.
I’m not Secretary Tim Geithner, (thankfully) but I can tell you that everything Obama and his wrecking crew have touched has had the reverse Midas touch.
Meanwhile Obama is set to go on a bus tour through key political states on what he claims isn’t a political vote-getting tour, but rather a tour to get the economy back on track and put people back to work. Really? Did I mention the carbon footprint the two bullet-proof busses and entourage are going to make? How about how much it will cost the half of us who actually pay taxes will have to pony up for his un-named un-political campaign is going to cost? I can’t fathom how these people can look us in the eye and spew out the B.S. they do. The problem is there are Kool aid drinkers out there who actually do believe this non-sense. It absolutely defies logic and common sense.
I had a discussion with one of those folks the other day. He was one of the un-educated, ill-informed folks who are systemic of the problem. It was the day the Dow dropped 513 points in one day. He looked at me and said, “We had a surplus when Bill Clinton was President.” I was faced with either explaining to him how un-informed he was and trying to educate him – despite knowing he had drank the Kool aid and it was pointless or simply shaking my head in pity for him and walking away.
Always one who loves a good challenge I opted to try to educate him. I explained that for the first time in 40 years we had a surplus while Bill Clinton was President. The reason for that however was because we finally had a Republican controlled Congress and that it certainly was in spite of what Clinton’s policies would have produced. Let me make this simple for those who think it’s complicated. CONGRESS CONTROLS THE PURSE STRING. He then went on to tell me that Bush squandered it under his tenor as President. I had to explain to him that the Democrats controlled Congress under Bush’s tenor. Until the mid-term elections the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House. Obama owns this mess. That doesn’t stop him from wining it’s all George Bush’s fault.
I will opine George Bush made some bad decisions and certainly should have vetoed some of the outrageous spending of the Democrats but you own this one, Mr. Obama. You got a bad economy and made it worse with your failed policies. Far worse. You stimulus did anything but stimulate the economy. Your Obama care has been shown to be a policy that will actually increase medical costs – not reduce them.
Hope and Change? I’m looking forward to that in the November Presidential elections. Since you have yet to name your political tour bus that you claim isn’t a political tour on the taxpayer dime, may I suggest, ‘The Obama farewell tour buses? That is when we’ll finally have some reason for hope and more than change left in our pockets.
For the first time in history the credit rating of the U.S. has been downgraded below AAA+. That means under the ‘leadership’ (if we can call it that) of President Obama, S&P has put investors on notice that your U.S. bonds are no longer considered by them to be ‘money-in-the-bank’.
The finger-pointing and blame game has wasted no time in commencing. The obligatory, “There is plenty of blame to go around.” and “We need to work together.” is nothing more than rhetoric from people who don’t believe a word they are saying but feel they have to say it in order to seem middle-of-the-road. The fact is the conciliatory language coming from their mouths is nothing more than bravo sierra emanating from an area much lower on the anatomy.
Despite the ‘Let’s play nice and compromise’ language you’re hearing each side is convinced the other side is to blame.
The esteemed congressman from Massachusetts, John Kerry puts the blame squarely on the shoulders of the Tea Party. We have heard claims of the Tea Party being terrorists and holding the nation hostage by putting a gun to their head. I find it fascinating that the party who claims we need to tone down the rhetoric and be less vitriolic is so obsessed with using words like ‘terrorists’, ‘hostages’ and ‘putting a gun to our heads’ language every time they speak.
I think if anyone is to blame it is, in fact the President and the Democrat leadership for putting a gun to our head in order for them to get what they always have had and always will have – more money to waste on ineffectual wasteful programs. The Democrat’s view of ‘compromise’ is, “Give us more money or we’ll tell the American people that you want old people to die and you’re going to take lunch money from the mouths of children.” Every time budget comes up it’s the same rhetoric from the Democrats, “The Republicans want to take your Social Security away and we aren’t sure we can pay the military if you don’t give us more money to waste in order to keep our phony baloney jobs.” For goodness sake, how many times are people going to fall for this same old tired ploy!
Social Security as it stands is unsustainable. If we don’t change the way we’re managing (or not managing) it Social Security will definitely run completely out of money and the Democrat’s crying wolf will finally come to pass.
Fact: We don’t have an income problem.
Fact: Washington has a spending problem
Fact: Like an alcoholic, the Democrats will never admit they have a problem. Admitting you have a problem is the first step.
The left is terrified of people like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Marco Rubio and Texas governor, Rick Perry. Why? It’s because they know these people are the antithesis of every thing liberal politicians stand for. True Conservatives believe in a balanced budget, smaller government. Rick Perry’s state of Texas leads the nation in employment. How is that possible, given the rest of the nation is in shambles under Obama’s ‘Hope and Change’?
Obama and liberal Democrats sound like a broken record, claiming the rich aren’t paying their fair share and the answer to our problems is to simply tax the rich more. If you’re one of the folks who are either habitually unemployed because you’re too lazy to work and have learned to use the system or you make a dollar per year less than your neighbor that sounds pretty good to you.
I am bored hearing about how the rich aren’t paying their fair share. The fact is half of the Americans in this country pay taxes for the other half who don’t pay a dime in taxes. Coincidentally those same folks who don’t pay a dime in taxes are the same ones who believe that way. Creators.com had a cartoon of Obama titled, What did he say? It showed Obama saying, “I won’t allow the half of Americans who pay no taxes to bear the burden of the other half who aren’t paying their fair share.” Bada Bing!
Am I without compassion? Hell, no! I’m mad as hell that there are poor single mothers out there who are willing to work two and three jobs in order to support themselves and their kids because she can’t get enough money to live on after every one else has bellied up to the government teat. I feel sorry for the elderly who worked hard all their life and thought they would be retired by now and finally enjoying the fruits of their hard labor, only to find Obama’s ‘Hope and Change’ has wiped out their 401K and change is all they have left. I feel sorry for the disabled who can't work, though no fault of their own or the widow who's husbands life savings can no longer sustain her because Obama's policies have caused interest rates to tank. I feel sorry for the husband who can't find a job because Obama's policies have destroyed so many of them and he has to flip hamburgers or work in a convenience store just to put food on the table. Those are the people I have compassion for.
Talk about holding a gun to someone’s head! That’s exactly what Obama and the liberal politicians in Washington did. They metaphorically put a gun to Conservative’s collective head and said, “Just give us the money and we’ll put the gun down.” To them that’s what compromise is. If you don’t give them more money to spend that we don't have they'll claim you aren’t compromising and you're mean spirited.
Has it dawned on anyone that the Democrats were supposed to have a budget over two and a half years ago? We keep hearing from Democrats about the President’s budget plan. What budget plan! He hasn’t put one on paper but we keep hearing about it. Where is it? I’d like to see it. I’d like folks who are much smarter than me to look at it and tell us if the plan will work at reducing the deficit and create jobs so we can get back on financial track.
I’m not Secretary Tim Geithner, (thankfully) but I can tell you that everything Obama and his wrecking crew have touched has had the reverse Midas touch.
Meanwhile Obama is set to go on a bus tour through key political states on what he claims isn’t a political vote-getting tour, but rather a tour to get the economy back on track and put people back to work. Really? Did I mention the carbon footprint the two bullet-proof busses and entourage are going to make? How about how much it will cost the half of us who actually pay taxes will have to pony up for his un-named un-political campaign is going to cost? I can’t fathom how these people can look us in the eye and spew out the B.S. they do. The problem is there are Kool aid drinkers out there who actually do believe this non-sense. It absolutely defies logic and common sense.
I had a discussion with one of those folks the other day. He was one of the un-educated, ill-informed folks who are systemic of the problem. It was the day the Dow dropped 513 points in one day. He looked at me and said, “We had a surplus when Bill Clinton was President.” I was faced with either explaining to him how un-informed he was and trying to educate him – despite knowing he had drank the Kool aid and it was pointless or simply shaking my head in pity for him and walking away.
Always one who loves a good challenge I opted to try to educate him. I explained that for the first time in 40 years we had a surplus while Bill Clinton was President. The reason for that however was because we finally had a Republican controlled Congress and that it certainly was in spite of what Clinton’s policies would have produced. Let me make this simple for those who think it’s complicated. CONGRESS CONTROLS THE PURSE STRING. He then went on to tell me that Bush squandered it under his tenor as President. I had to explain to him that the Democrats controlled Congress under Bush’s tenor. Until the mid-term elections the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House. Obama owns this mess. That doesn’t stop him from wining it’s all George Bush’s fault.
I will opine George Bush made some bad decisions and certainly should have vetoed some of the outrageous spending of the Democrats but you own this one, Mr. Obama. You got a bad economy and made it worse with your failed policies. Far worse. You stimulus did anything but stimulate the economy. Your Obama care has been shown to be a policy that will actually increase medical costs – not reduce them.
Hope and Change? I’m looking forward to that in the November Presidential elections. Since you have yet to name your political tour bus that you claim isn’t a political tour on the taxpayer dime, may I suggest, ‘The Obama farewell tour buses? That is when we’ll finally have some reason for hope and more than change left in our pockets.
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