Hello once again from the Vast Right Wing Jingoistic Smear Merchant's Society.

COURT:

Of course the big news this past week is the fact that Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that a U.S. District Court in New York City is a far better place to bring terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to justice than a Military Tribunal. To say that I disagree with Attorney General Eric Holder is a mild understatement. Many have said that he has done this on his own. I seriously doubt that. I am sure that Holder gets his marching orders from the world's most articulate and intelligent human, Barack Hussein Obama. If he did decide this on his own then Barack Hussein Obama should dump him immediately or at the very least transfer him to a frozen asteroid several light years from planet earth.

Ah, but Attorney General Holder has assured us that the case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is soooooooo strong that a conviction is all but guaranteed. Now why is it that I have a problem believing an Attorney General who was appointed by the world's most articulate and intelligent human?

Could it perhaps be that I am familiar enough with the justice system to realize that on the surface their are any number of issues which can and will be brought up by the defense team which will most certainly be grounds for a successful appeal?

Let me express this in terms so that even the gentle people with flowers in their hair who reside in the People's Republic of San Francisco can understand.

1) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed IS a FOREIGN TERRORIST.

2) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed IS NOT an American Citizen.

3) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, by being a terrorist combatant IS NOT guaranteed rights under the Geneva Conventions.

4) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed IS NOT guaranteed rights under THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

5) (And perhaps the most important) I AM NOT THE LEAST BIT CONCERNED WITH Khalid Sheikh Mohammed BEING BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. I want him PUNISHED by being EXECUTED.

And I would like a show of hands from everyone who believes that this whole business of trying him in a Civilian Criminal Court is nothing more than an opportunity for some defense team of lawyers to put on the show if the decade. Will we be subjected to the antics of another DREAM TEAM. Do de name O.J. Simpson ring a bell? Let us hope that the U.S. District Judge is a bit more competent that Judge Lance Ito, or has Obama appointed Lance Ito to a Federal Judgeship?

Oh, and there is this other little problem. How on God's green earth does anyone expect a competent and impartial jury to be picked in New York City?

Now here is the main question I have; If Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others are to be tried in civilian court, then why is Attorney General Eric Holder allowing other terrorists to be tried before Military Tribunals?

And of course there is always the possibility of ONE JUROR who actually might sympathize with these mutts who will vote not guilty and hang the jury.

And of course there is always the possibility or should I say even a probability that some terrorist organizations will use this trial as an excuse to pull another attack in New York City which will cost more American lives. I do not believe that this is a chance worth taking. But evidently Attorney General Eric Holder does.

The bottom line though is this:

Our Intelligence forces -- Our Military -- George Bush and Dick Cheney will be the ones on trial, not these terrorists.

VETO:

The other afternoon I was listening to the Lou Dobbs radio program and several callers called in on different matters. One caller called in and said that he thought that it was important for the people to give a "Line Item VETO" power to the President of the United States.

In the past, I have always thought that since most state Governors have a Line Item Veto power in state government that the President of the United States should also have this power. I thought this for a couple of reasons:

Back about the time that the "Brady Bill" was passed into law another little addition to some already abundant and confusing firearms laws was added. This addition was not attached to any other laws regarding firearms. And it certainly was not offered as a law standing on its own merits. No, it was attached as an Amendment to some funding bill which had absolutely nothing to do with firearms. The main point of the law was to add another restriction to someone who wished to purchase a firearm.

Now for anyone who has purchased a firearm from a licensed dealer, you know that prior to the purchase you must fill out a form which was known as a 4473 form or yellow form. On this form it has all of the required information regarding name, sex, nationality, race, address, place of birth, date of birth, etc.... Additionally it had a series of questions which you had to answer. Among these had to do with a FELONY CONVICTION. If a person had been previously CONVICTED of a FELONY crime then he/she was not eligible to purchase any firearm.

But during the years when the "Domestic Violence " statures began to be enforced to the letter, a little addition was placed in the form of an additional question being placed on the 4473 form. And that question had to do with arrest or conviction of any crime, even a MISDEMEANOR CONVICTION, which contained the elements of a domestic violence crime.

Most Domestic Violence (and the name might vary from state to state) crimes are in fact misdemeanor crimes and it does not necessarily have to be a husband vs wife. In most locations it means ANY FAMILY MEMBER AND ALSO INCLUDED ARE; Room mates, and in many states it even includes just close friends.

Now I am not for a moment trying to say that spousal abuse and family violence are not serious acts but they are still mostly misdemeanor crimes. It is one of the few misdemeanor crimes where a law enforcement officer may make a legal arrest for a misdemeanor crime which DID NOT OCCUR in the officer's presence. And in many jurisdictions it is a requirement to make an on the scene arrest if probable cause exists to believe that some act had occurred which would be a violation of the domestic violence statute.

I can tell you from past experience both before and after the domestic violence laws went into effect that many of the acts which now fall under the domestic violence statutes were mostly arguments and not necessarily physical violence.

Still these particular laws were singled out as acts which could prohibit someone who had perhaps lost their temper on one occasion from being able to purchase any firearm.

The point is that these additions to the firearms statutes were not strong enough to stand on their own merits. No, it had to be attached to a funding bill which was one of those "Must Pass" pieces of legislation.

You can look back over the past 25 or 30 years and see where many of our most intrusive pieces of legislation were passed as Amendments to other pieces of legislation which had absolutely nothing in common with the Amendment.

So based upon that, I always thought that the President should have the Line Item Veto Power. AH! But then I began to realize just how corrupt our elected officials are and pretty much changed my tune.

If our Congressmen or Senators attach some intrusive piece of legislation as an Amendment to a needed piece of legislation the the WHOLE PIECE OF LEGISLATION SHOULD BE VETOED. And it is my feeling that it should be vetoed every time these elected mutts try to pull a fast one on the American people.

And that is pretty much what Lou Dobbs told this guy that a Line Item Veto was unnecessary IF EVERYONE DID WHAT WAS RIGHT. And that is my feeling right at this moment. If these elected overpaid slugs don't do the right thing, DUMP 'EM. And we can start in 2010.

OPRAH:

For the past few days I have watched several film clips of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin being interviewed by the queen of daytime TV, Oprah Winfrey. Since I am not a fan of Oprah I must rely on film clips and audio clips to form my opinion. I had rather be attacked by several dozen rabid baboons than to sit down and actually watch an Oprah show.

Anyway, Oprah in her intelligent and probing interview with Sarah Palin began asking her about her son who was born with Down Syndrome. Governor Palin gave her what I thought was a very good answer regarding her feelings when she was told of the problem.

Then Oprah, in her own condescending manner asked Sarah Palin, "When did you tell THE HUSBAND"? The Husband? Why not "Your Husband"? Why not call him by his name? But no, Oprah said "The Husband". To me this went to show just exactly how little Oprah really cares about people or their families.

You see, the lady I am married to is MY WIFE. Not The Wife. Perhaps I am a bit old fashioned but I really thought that question was an intentional insult to Sarah Palin and the fact that she has always been out front about her family being very important to her.

I remember watching some idiotic TV program one day while I was sitting in the chair at the barber shop. The shop had it on some game program and the host asked this female contestant to tell him about her family. Here is this woman's response: "Well there is me and my two kids and my dog and my cat and my canary and the husband." This struck me as a bit unusual and should have told her husband just exactly where he was in the pecking order in his obviously somewhat dysfunctional family. It also told me that in this woman's eyes, her husband's importance to her was somewhere between her canary and the bag of fertilizer in their garage.

It also told me that to be a contestant on this game show, one must possess the IQ of a cinder block.

Any what should we expect from Oprah? Her overbearing arrogance did, however, land her on the Varmint's List this week.

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, Tony Aguilar, Julio Mirales - HOBBS,NM; Rosa Villareal - LOVINGTON,NM; Ella Dunlop, Frank Connelly - SAN ANTONIO,TX; Craig Dickson - HOUSTON,TX; George Brogdon - MIDWAY,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA,OK; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Dan Higdon - FLORENCE,OR; Paul and Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak - ORLANDO,FL; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban, Bill Meyers, Paul Bassford - MD; Kate Powell - LOS ANGELES,CA; Janet Smith - OR; Lanelle Kittlestad - PLANT CITY,FL; Bob Love - ABILENE,TX; Alan Miller - PENSACOLA,FL; John Bowcutt-WA; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, SSgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross, Alex Boyd, Capt. Bjorn Thoreen, 2NDLT. Michael Rice, GySgt. James Walker - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1C Elizabeth Barber & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, SSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Sgt. Mark Goodwin - US ARMY; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory -DEA; Ashtyn Wages - Children's Hospital,DALLAS,TX; John-Paul Tupaz - Texas Children's Hospital, HOUSTON,TX(Let us also keep the parents and families of these two young people in our prayers)

QUOTES:

"You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give."......................................... WINSTON CHURCHILL

"In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes."................... THOMAS SOWELL

"Behind this decision and others is the notion that we have to demonstrate our good faith to other nations, sometimes called 'world opinion.' Just who are these saintly nations whose favor we must curry, at the risk of American lives and the national security of the United States?................. THOMAS SOWELL

"They talk of my power: my power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens who are straight and honest cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest; that is all the strength I have.".............. THEODORE ROOSEVELT

VARMINTS:

President Barack Hussein Obama (D); Nancy Pelosi(D); Harry Reid(D); Diane Feinstein(D); Barbara Boxer (Ma'am not Senator)(D); Maxine Waters(D); Barney Frank; Chris Dodd(D); Arlen Specter(D); AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe(R); Henry Waxman(D); Vice President Joe Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee(D); "Fat Jack" Murtha(D); Jimmy Carter(D); George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); HSD Janet Napolitano; White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger(R); Chuck Schumer(D); New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin(D); John Kerry(D); Hillary Clinton(D); Bill Clinton(D); White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy(D); Bobby Rush(D); Colin Powell(R); Imaginary Reverend Al Sharpton; Imaginary Reverend Jesse Jackson; Richard Lugar (R); Lindsey Graham (R); Jay Rockefeller(D); Max Baucus(D); Susan Estrich; Al Gore(D); Charles Rangel(D); John Conyers(D); Steny Hoyer(D); Al (Mr. Toad) Franken(D); Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Linda Sanchez; Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Chris Matthews (MSNBC); Markos Zuniga (Daily KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (THE VIEW); Bill Maher (HBO); Oprah Winfrey; Shepard Smith (FOX News); New York Governor David Paterson(D); Michael Moore; Bill Moyers (PBS); Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Justice Anthony Kennedy; Alcee Hastings (D); Dan Rather; Julian Bond; Wesley Clark(D); ACLU; THE UNITED NATIONS; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; PETA; LA RAZA; AARP; N.Y. TIMES; L.A. TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SEIU; SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR

MORE STUFF:

I don't know if the rest of you have noticed but I have listened to ads for various items on the radio and watched ads on TV for numerous items and while the ad itself is fairly lame what really concerns me is at the end of the ad someone comes on for about 15 seconds and talks so rapidly that you cannot possibly understand what they are saying.

Is this the same as the "Small Print" we are all cautioned to make sure we pay attention to? If so, then I must seriously question the items which feel necessary to have some super rapid talking person provide the listeners with what I can only assume is some type of disclaimer which in short is telling us that we buy this product at our own risk.

Listen carefully the next time you hear one of these ads and see if you feel like you can trust these mutts.

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I heard one news report this past week which said that President Obama is showing some real interest in doubling the size of the Peace Corps.

I guess that if we do spend the bucks to do this we can return all of our military personnel and deluge Iraq and Afghanistan with Peace Corps personnel. I'm sure they could create the proper dialogue with these folks and all will be well in the Middle East.

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Former Congressman William Jefferson, who was convicted on bribery charges was sentenced to 13 years by a Federal Judge.

OH YEAH!

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I have had several folks inquire as to why I have added FOX News host Shepard Smith to the Varmint's List. Well, in spite of the apparent popularity of Shep, in my opinion he whines like a tub full of hungry puppies and I have about had it with whiners.

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We have another FLDS member getting ready to go on trial again in Schleicher County which is immediately to the South of San Angelo. I have spoken with several people who have had dealings with some of the FLDS group and from what I have learned from them, the truth is not really very high on the FLDS list of priorities. People have told me that these members are famous for not telling people their correct name and refusing to show proper identification when required. Of course this is primarily the men according to what I have been told as the women of the group have fairly little contact on matters of any importance and are normally accompanied by at least one male when they have to go somewhere away from their compound.

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Anyway, that about does it for this week. I did have a pleasant surprise today when one of my old friends from the Hobbs Police Department came through town and gave me a call. After retirement, my friend went to work for a security company working under a U.S. Government contract and served a year or so in Iraq.

He came back and went to Kosovo for another tour. He is now home in Texas and I hope for good. It was really good to see him again.

See ya next week.

JEM

Greetings once again from the Headquarters For West Texas Unsophisticated Voting Conclusion Jumping Gun Loving Jingoistic Conspiratorial Speculators.

FIrst let me wish everyone, particularly former and present members of every branch of the United States Military, a HAPPY VETERAN'S DAY.

I would also like to wish a Happy 234TH Birthday to the United States Marine Corps. Actually yesterday was the actual date of the founding of the Marine Corps.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:

I believe you all know my strong feelings against political correctness. It is really a shame that a tragedy such as the terrorist attack at Ft. Hood, Texas had to occur to call attention to this absurd madness which has become to be known as "Political Correctness".

I am by no means a military expert and although I have read many e-mail reports and watched and listened to many news and opinion programs I have pretty well made up my mind that our country has gone over the edge in this area of "Political Correctness".

On the day of this terrorist attack which cost the lives of 13 Americans as well as wounding almost 30 more (the count seems to change on the number of wounded), some reporters, some military personnel, and of course every liberal/socialist hack able to voice their opinion, were unable to call this what it was. A terrorist attack committed by a Radical Muslim Terrorist..

Just a short while after the attack I listened to a telephone interview of an individual identified as a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel. This man, who knew the terrorist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, told the interviewer that Hasan had been observed to have problems even prior to his transfer to Fort Hood. This man said that he had personally called Hasan down on some of his statements and tactics used when counseling personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The evening of the Ft. Hood terrorist murders, Retired Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters appeared on the Bill O'Reilly program on FOX News. While Bill O'Reilly was taking the low road and not forming an opinion "Until all the facts are in", Colonel Peters called it exactly what it was, "A TERRORIST ATTACK". FOX News contributor Bernard Goldberg also called it a terrorist attack perpetrated by a Radical Muslim Terrorist.

I was unable to finish watching the O'Reilly Factor when also appearing with his two cents on the matter was that great American Patriot, Geraldo Rivera. Of course Geraldo echoed the feelings of most liberals/socialists when he related that the thing which really concerned him most was the negative effect that this incident was going to have on the 4,000,000 other American Muslims. Apparently Geraldo didn't feel much concern for the families of the dead Americans or for the wounded and their families. Perhaps Geraldo's liberal whining attitude is responsible for me occasionally being seized by an urge to knock him on his ass.

Now in all fairness to O'Reilly ( who I imagine is still waiting for all the facts to come to the attention of "The Factor") and that wimpy varmint Geraldo, I must also reflect back on a statement which I heard come from the mouth of Army Chief of Staff, General George W.Casey. Actually he made a couple of statements which I found incredible. The First: I would hate to think that we "dropped the ball" on this. DROPPED THE BALL? Then on the day of the ceremony at Ft. Hood I saw a film clip of General Casey lamenting the possibility that this incident could "Damage the Diversity" of the present military. DAMAGE THE DIVERSITY?

I will say that the remarks made by President Barack Hussein Obama at the ceremony were at best "Generic". Not once did I hear him use the terms terrorist or terrorism. An while I do not know exactly what the "Presidential Medals" look like, those being the medals placed beneath the photographed of each of the slain Americans, but I thought that was a fairly lame presentation. I wish I could have believed that President Obama was actually sincere about this ceremony, but I seem to remember that almost immediately after the terrorist attack occurred, President Barack Hussein Obama cautioned us not to "Jump to any conclusions". My thoughts immediately went to Obama's conclusion jumping example when he immediately took the side of a black professor over the Cambridge Police Department who he accused of "Acting STUPIDLY".

Then of course O'Reilly told us that we must wait until all the facts were known prior to forming an opinion.

And of course General Casey cautioned us against "Speculation".

Well in deference to Obama, O'Reilly and O'Casey, I believe I have a right to form an opinion based upon what we know at the present time. I must tell all three of these people that while I have been to the top of the San Jacinto Monument on at least 7 occasions, I have never jumped. BUT, I still have formed an opinion as to what the results of jumping from the top of that monument would be.

Some friends of mine and I went hunting for Russian Wild Boar several years back. Each of us got a wild boar. Three of them weighed over 300 pounds and two of them were between 250 - 300 pounds. They were incredibly fast, they all had large tusks and when they charged us, I didn't have all the facts at my disposal as to what would be the results of not shooting them. HOWEVER, I had enough to know that shooting them was the proper action to take.

Today, I have been watching, hearing and reading all kinds of things regarding this Nidal Malik Hasan investigation and in my humble opinion it looks like we perhaps might have "The Blame Game" in full session. I would imagine that we will have many agencies, civilian and military, attempting to dodge any blame and re-directing the blame to anyone who will hold still for it.

I don't care who "DROPPED THE BALL", but it is fairly obvious that someone damn sure did. And I submit that the ball needs to be picked up and put away securely and at the same time, kick political correctness right in the ass and out the door. I am not quite sure what my attitude would be if I were a present member of our military. But I imagine that I would be wanting some straight answers and pretty damn quick.

I also have seen several interviews with the attorney representing the terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan. Of course this attorney says that he is not sure that Hasan can receive a fair trial in the Ft. Hood area.

I do not know but I would almost believe that since this occurred on a military base and the victims were members of the U.S. Military and the terrorist defendant was also a member of the U.S. Military that he would be tried in a Military Court. BUT if that is not the case then I imagine that he could be transferred to almost any county in the State of Texas (Other than Travis or Harris: For those of you residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco those are the counties of Austin and Houston). Move it to, shall we say, Comanche County. I'm sure he would receive the trial he deserved in that good city of Comanche, Texas.

And before I forget I have heard a couple of interviews with obvious liberals/socialists on different radio stations, where these astute folks have said that the reason for this attack at Ft. Hood was: "America's love for guns". For some unknown reason I am overcome with an uncontrollable urge to choke these turds until their eyes bug out. That would be immediately after I kick Geraldo in the backside.

I also heard one interview with a doctor who had attended schools with Nidal Malik Hasan. This man said that he had heard Hasan make statements that "Sharia Law" took precedence over the United States Constitution.

So, in spite of the wishes of President Barack Hussein Obama, General Casey and Bill O'Reilly, I will SPECULATE and JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS. I leave this subject with this final thought: While I do not possess enough evidence against Major Nidal Malik Hasan to convict him "Beyond A Reasonable Doubt", I damn sure have enough PROBABLE CAUSE to form an opinion that he is a terrorist and he committed a terrorist attack and that I further don't give the first damn about the DIVERSITY of the military.

What I do care about is that we have dedicated men and women who are members of our military and further that they have the training and equipment and LEADERSHIP to perform their duties with the support of the American people AND our elected officials. AND they should be able to do their duty and support the Constitution of the United States without fear of retribution for violating some idiotic political correctness guideline.

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, Tony Aguilar, Julio Mirales - HOBBS,NM; Rosa Villareal - LOVINGTON,NM; Ella Dunlop, Frank Connelly - SAN ANTONIO,TX; Craig Dickson - HOUSTON,TX; George Brogdon - MIDWAY,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA,OK; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Dan Higdon - FLORENCE,OR; Paul and Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak - ORLANDO,FL; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban, Bill Meyers, Paul Bassford - MD; Kate Powell - LOS ANGELES,CA; Janet Smith - OR; Lanelle Kittlestad - PLANT CITY,FL; Bob Love - ABILENE,TX; Alan Miller - PENSACOLA,FL; John Bowcutt-WA; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, SSgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross, Alex Boyd, Capt. Bjorn Thoreen, 2NDLT. Michael Rice - USMC; Jason Plialr, Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1C Elizabeth Barber & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, SSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Sgt. Mark Goodwin - US ARMY; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory -DEA; Ashtyn Wages - Children's Hospital,DALLAS,TX; John-Paul Tupaz - Texas Children's Hospital, HOUSTON,TX(Let us also keep the parents and families of these two young people in our prayers)

This week I would also like to add prayers for all of the families of those killed last week at Ft. Hood,TX as well as those who were injured and their families.

QUOTES:

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."... GEORGE ORWELL

"If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates."................................... TOMAS SOWELL

"It was fascinating to see Barack Obama warning us not to leap to conclusions about the killings at Fort Hood, Texas ------- after the way he leaped to conclusions over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, when he knew less about the facts than we already know about the massacre at Fort Hood."............. THOMAS SOWELL

"Where and excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties or his possessions."....... JAMES MADISON

VARMINTS:

President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer (Ma'am not Senator); Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joe Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; "Fat Jack" Murtha; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); HSD Janet Napolitano; White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; Chuck Schumer; New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell; Imaginary Reverend Al Sharpton; Imaginary Reverend Jesse Jackson; Richard Lugar (R); Lindsey Graham (R); Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al (Mr. Toad) Franken; Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Linda Sanchez; Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Chris Matthews (MSNBC); Markos Zuniga (Daily KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (THE VIEW); Bill Maher (HBO); Shepard Smith (FOX News); New York Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; ACLU; THE UNITED NATIONS; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; PETA; LA RAZA; AARP; N.Y. TIMES; L.A. TIMES; SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR

STUFF:

In listening to all this bellowing, whining, and lying regarding the new Universal Health Care ala Pelosi, one thing which jumped out at me was the fact that "Pre-Existing Conditions" would not be considered in the act of insuring anyone. Now I would like a show of hands of everyone who believes that load-o-crap. If this becomes the norm then why should anyone buy insurance of any kind until you need it or if you subscribe to the idiotic Pelosi bill, after you need it.

If this is the case then wait until a family member dies and then purchase a life insurance policy on them. Or if you decide to bet on a sporting event, wait until you know the outcome prior to placing your bet. Makes perfect sense to me.

As I understand it, and you cannot get the same answer from any of the democrat mutts, the length of this Health Care Legislation passed a couple of days back by the House of Representatives was 1,993 pages. I looked at a copy of War And Peace and it was about 1400 pages in length; My Oxford Large Print Dictionary and Thesaurus is 1272 pages; I have a book titled; Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible/Dictionary Of The Hebrew Bible/Dictionary Of The Greek Testament with the total pages being 1,323. I could go on but the point is, NONE of the people who voted to pass this garbage legislation actually read the bill.

The Senate needs to kill this absurd bill despite the badgering of President Barack Hussein Obama AND former President Bill Clinton.

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Good news! D.C. sniper, John Allen Muhammud was executed in Virginia. Virginia is doing plenty good this month. KIcked out the Democrat Governor and executed a mass murderer.

Let's also hear it for Texas. Texas also executed a Houston murderer and also a Schleicher County jury convicted FLDS mutt Raymond Merrill Jessop on a sexual abuse charge against his ninth wife (That would be his ninth wife while still being married to eight others). Good ol' Raymond was sentenced to 10 years and fined $8,000.00

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I saw a film clip of Nancy Pelosi in 2003 whining about being forced to vote on legislation which she HAD NOT HAD TIME TO READ. Guess it just all depends on who is pushing the legislation, huh Bug-Eye?

Then she recently said that she hoped that the Congress had a bill in time for it to be a Christmas Present to the AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Tell you what Nancy. Stuff the bill and just give us back our country.

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Yesterday I received a letter through the U.S. Mail. The card said: "The U.S. Congress has made available up to $20,000 in Federal Home Improvement Program funds. Just complete the enclosed form". Well the form would have been almost impossible to fill out since I shredded it. So I did the next best thing and ran the letter through the shredder.

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I heard one news report saying that this new House Health Care Bill had some language in it which would require restaurants of a certain size to publish the calories and food value information on their menu.

Let me share this thought with you, when I get the urge to have a Chili-Cheese-Dog, I don't give a damn about the calories OR the food value. Same goes with a Pack Saddle Double Meat Cheese Burger (Which incidentally might be the best on the planet).

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Well I guess I had better get down the road and get back to loving my firearms. I am pretty fickle, I guess. I love a different firearm each and every day. I just can't seem to make up my mind. Wonder if the liberals/socialists hate firearms with the same degree of passion that I love mine?

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I also understand that without any fanfare or media coverage, former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush made a visit to Fort Hood. A bit different from our present resident of the White House.

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I will see you all next week. But if this week has not shown the entire country just exactly how idiotic Political Correctness is and what harm it causes when observed as the rule rather than the exception. then you are unable to fathom the simplest concepts of right and wrong.

I know we all know but the rest better catch on and pretty damn quick. The power in this federal government must change or we are all done.

And let me leave you with this final thought: The only thing which allows Political Correctness to stay alive is FEAR.

Later

JEM

Greetings from the West Texas Headquarters For The Vast Right Wing Conspiratorial Jingoistic Gun Owning Unsophisticated Voters. I heard a Democrat hack speaking this morning about the voters in Virginia and New Jersey and he said that the "Sophisticated Voters" just didn't turn out. Looks like the "Unsophisticated Voters" made up for it by turning out in pretty good numbers.

ELECTION:

Here in Texas, just as in the rest of the country, yesterday was election day. We didn't have nearly the coverage on our election as did Virginia, New Jersey, and New York. I would first of all like to congratulate the "Unsophisticated Voters" of Virginia and New Jersey for kicking out some real mutts in their respective Gubernatorial races, (For those sophisticated folks presently residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco, that would be the races for Governor of those two states). About a hour ago I was watching FOX News and really got caught up in the excitement of awaiting the views on the elections by former Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, who is also a "Yellow Dog" Democrat. It was sort of like awaiting Louis Farrakhan's views on Caucasian Christians. You probably were already aware of her views and had already made up your mind that your opinion on her views were sort of like Rhett Butler's opinion of Scarlet's wishes at the end of "Gone With The Wind"; "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn".

And that is precisely how much I care about Geraldine Ferraro's thoughts. Anyone with a brain could see that Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Party were counting on Democrat victories in both New Jersey and Virginia. Obama made FIVE recent trips to the state of New Jersey and THREE to the state of Virginia with the hopes of garnering some support for the two incumbents. Apparently the unsophisticated voters of both those states weren't buying Obama's brand of political pandering. Could it be that perhaps the world's most articulate and intelligent human is less than Godlike after all?

Our election here in San Angelo was much milder. We did have 11 Constitutional Amendments (And for those of you currently being held hostage in the Gulag of Austin, that would be the TEXAS CONSTITUTION). Yes, our state just as the other 49 United States does have its own Constitution. Most of our Constitutional Amendments dealt with eminent domain and taxing authority. I know all of the Amendments passed here in Tom Green County but I have not heard yet how they did state wide. We also had to elect a Mayor here to replace our previous Mayor who days after being re-elected announced that he was running off to Mexico with his "Significant Other" who happened to be another dude who was a Mexican Citizen.

Anyway there were seven candidates for this job and since no candidate got the 1 vote over 50%, so there will be a runoff election next month. Our Mayor's position pays a whopping $50 per month and the Mayor presides over council meetings and signs proclamations and ordinances and it is basically a part-time job with a big title and very little power. What makes me wonder about all of the candidates is why anyone would spend good money seeking this position.

Still on the subject of the election, the 23rd Congressional District in New York had a pretty interesting race in which there were three persons running, The Democrat Candidate, Bill Owens; The Republican Candidate, Dede Scozaffava; and The Conservative Party Candidate, Doug Hoffman. The unusual thing about this race, as I understand it, was that the Democrat Candidate was actually not as liberal as the Republican Candidate, Dede Scozaffava.

Who is Dede Scozaffava, you ask? As a New York Assembly woman, she voted to impose binding arbitration on public employees, stripping workers of the right to vote on their own contracts. She also voted for Card Check, forced unionism bill, S. B. 560 which is pending before Congress right now. This bill would eliminate the secret ballot, force workers to accept mandatory binding arbitration, and give broad new power over workers to Big Labor. How this squack got to be the Republican nominee is beyond comprehension. Of course at the very last moment, she removed herself from the race for the seat as the U.S. Representative for New York's 23rd Congressional District. But of course that is not the end of the story. SHE THREW HER SUPPORT TO THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE, Bill Owens, but her name was already on the ballot so there it remained. The Conservative Party Candidate was not a professional politician. He was an accountant and from all indications was a true conservative whereas Mrs. Scozaffava was not.

Now, here is something else about this particular race and the candidacy of Mrs. Scozaffava. Who endorsed her candidacy? Why none other than former Republican House Speaker NEWT GINGRICH. Here lately I have received a whole bunch of e-mails containing a quote from NEWT GINGRICH. I have also noticed that while NEWT talks a really good game, he rarely follows through with any of his ideas. So let's look at NEWT on this particular endorsement:

NEWT GINGRICH has been claiming that the fight against Card Check is one of the biggest issues for his group, American Solutions. If my memory is correct, and I am sure that it is, I seem to remember receiving some mail from American Solutions in which NEWT GINGRICH was putting the touch on me for a donation to his organization.

In short, it appears to me that NEWT GINGRICH is more about NEWT GINGRICH than he is about our country. Remind you of anyone else currently in power? And just so there is no doubt about what my position is on NEWT and his organization, I think it is unforgivable for someone who is supposed to be so politically astute as NEWT, to support an obvious far left candidate REGARDLESS OF PARTY AFFILIATION. I believe that Mr. Gingrich is more interested in feathering his own nest than doing what is right. Perhaps NEWT should team up with Geraldine Ferraro and they could have their own political opinion program on, MSNBC perhaps. Anyway, Newt Gingrich has lost me and I must really question the validity of listening to any of these former politicians. Newt seems to talk a good game but his actual play leaves something to be desired.

Does the phrase "Symbolism over substance" seem to fit?

I also read where this Scozaffava squack also got the endorsement of the RNC and ACORN. Looks like ACORN were the only ones who knew what they were really doing. But I could be wrong.

MODERATE:

Over the past couple of years we have heard the terms "MODERATE" and "INDEPENDENT" and "CENTRIST" thrown around quite a bit in political discussions. As you all know that my opinion of the term moderate is not one of endearment in my eyes. I am also beginning to have the same opinion of the term centrist. According to my Websters' Dictionary here are the definitions of these above mentioned words:

MODERATE - mild, calm, avoiding extremes, of medium quality, one holding moderate opinions

CENTRIST - a person with moderate political opinions

INDEPENDENT - free from the influence or control of others, self governing, self-reliant, not adhering to any political party, not depending on another for financial support, one who is independent in thinking or action

So as you can see there is little difference in the words moderate and centrist. But there is quite a difference in those two words and the word independent.

As I have stated in the past, the last time I was really moderate on anything was when I was probably about 8 or 9 years old and this question was posed to me: Who would win in a fight? Superman, Captain Marvel, or Batman.

I thought on this for a moment and since I liked all three of the super heroes, I immediately ruled out Batman. While Batman had some really cool tools and equipment, he possessed no super powers.

Then I thought that both Superman and Captain Marvel both had super powers BUT Captain Marvel had an alter ego in the form of Billy Batson, who in order to become Captain Marvel had to utter the word, SHAZAM, and then he would be transformed into Captain Marvel.

AH! But Superman, even in disguise as mild mannered reporter, Clark Kent, still possessed his super powers. So my moderate thinking became not so moderate in a pretty short time.

And remember the old saying, the only thing you find in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead armadillos. Or if you straddle a fence long enough you will end up with a sharp stake up your backside.

So, in short, I am getting pretty sick of O'Reilly and a whole bunch of the other news varmints telling us that the American people are really searching for a "Centrist" or a "Moderate", when in reality we are looking for a candidate and elected officials who are more "Independent" in their thoughts and actions. We don't want someone who is extreme to either side of the political spectrum but I sure believe that most independents have brains enough to know that you cannot borrow or tax your way out of financial problems. And I believe that most conservatives in fact are more independent in their thinking than any and all "Centrists", "Moderates" and "Liberals"

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, Tony Aguilar, Pat Murphy, Julio Mirales - HOBBS,NM; Rosa Villareal - LOVINGTON,NM; Ella Dunlop, Frank Connolly - SAN ANTONIO,TX; Craig Dickson - HOUSTON,TX; George Brogdon - MIDWAY,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA,OK; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Dan Higdon - FLORENCE,OR; Paul and Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak - ORLANDO,FL; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban, Bill Meyers, Paul Bassford - MD; Kate Powell - LOS ANGELES,CA; Janet Smith - OR; Lanelle Kittlestad - PLANT CITY,FL; Bob Love - ABILENE,TX; Alan Miller - PENSACOLA,FL; John Bowcutt -WA; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, SSgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross, Alex Boyd, Capt. Bjorn Thoreen, 2NDLT Michael Rice - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas - US COAST GUARD; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1C Elizabeth Barber & Codey Barber, Col. Phil Samples, SSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Sgt. Mark Goodwin - US ARMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory - DEA; Ashtyn Wages (8 months old, Children's Hospital, DALLAS,TX), John-Paul Tupaz (7 weeks old, Texas Children's Hospital, HOUSTON,TX)

QUOTES:

"It seems as if so many people have invested so much hope and trust in Barack Obama that it is intolerable that anyone should come along and stir up any doubts that could threaten their house of cards."......................... THOMAS SOWELL

"No one --- not even the President of the United states ------ has an entitlement to a positive response to his actions. The entitlement mentality has eroded the once common belief that you earned things, including respect, instead of being given them."....... THOMAS SOWELL

"As far as the benefit of the doubt, no one ------ especially not the President of the United States ---- is entitled to that, when his actions can jeopardize the rights of 300 million Americans domestically and the security of the nation in an international jungle, where nuclear weapons may soon be in the hands of people with suicidal fanaticism. Will it take a mushroom cloud over an American city to make that clear? Was 9/11 not enough?"...... THOMAS SOWELL

"It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power."............................. JOHN ADAMS

VARMINTS:

President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi (D-CA0; Harry Reid (D-NV); Diane Feinstein (D-CA); Barbara Boxer (D-CA); Maxine Waters (D-CA); Barney Frank (D-MA); Chris Dodd (D-CT); Arlen Specter (D-PA); Attorney General Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe (R-ME); Henry Waxman (D-CA); Vice President Joe Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); "Fat Jack" Murtha (D-PA); Former President Jimmy Carter (D-GA); George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; Chuck Schumer (D-NY); New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin (D-IL); John Kerry (D-MA); Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Former President Bill Clinton (D-AR/NY); White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy (D-VT); Bobby Rush (D-IL); Colin Powell; Reverend Al Sharpton; Reverend Jesse Jackson; Richard Lugar (R-IN); Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Jay Rockefeller (D-WV); Max Baucus (D-MT); Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel (D-NY); John Conyers (D-MI); Steny Hoyer (D-MD); Al Franken (D-MN); Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Linda Sanchez (D-CA); Geraldo Rivera - (FOX News); Chris Matthews (MSNBC); Markos Zuniga (Daily KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (THE VIEW); Bill Maher (HBO); Shepard Smith (FOX News); New York Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; ACLU; THE UNITED NATIONS; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; PETA; LA RAZA; AARP; N.Y. TIMES; L.A. TIMES; SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER; MOVEON.ORG

PELOSI:

On Thursday, October 29, 2009 I listened briefly to Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi when she uttered this lie: "We have listened to the American People". A short while later the House came out with a 1,990 page healthcare bill.

Steny Hoyer praised the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.

The Speaker of the House then praised House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer.

Then we were assured that this legislation was "Open and Above Board".

WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!!!!

What the House Speaker and the House Majority Leader neglected to tell us was that:

* The cost of this legislation was $1.3 TRILLION, or about $500 million per page.

* The bill would be financed through massive debt and tax hikes

* There were 13 new ways to raise taxes

* Americans would be forced to purchase this health insurance, whether they wanted to or not.

* Increase insurance premiums and decrease access to health care.

* Create 111 NEW FEDERAL BUREAUCRACIES

* Cost Texas 15,000 jobs by having the government shut down doctor-owned hospitals

Either later that night or maybe the next day I was watching an interview with a Democrat Congressman. I got in after the interview started and didn't see them flash his name. Anyway, this guy is doing his best to make chicken shit taste like chicken salad and he made this statement: Oh, we know the cost will increase, BUT, it just won't increase as fast as it would without this legislation.

HEY!!! Haven't they been telling us that the cost of health insurance would actually go down under this government run system?

These people cannot remember from one day to the next which lies they have told nor to whom they have been told.

Once again, prior to 1998 I personally had not been troubled with many medical bills for myself. But in 1998 I had some major surgery and if memory serves me correctly my medical expenses for this particular problem including one week in Methodist Hospital in Lubbock, Texas were over $40,000, Then in 2001, I spent one week in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at the University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas. Since that time I have had two eye surgeries and my wife has had three eye surgeries.

Now up until that time, I had paid health care premiums since 1958. And with the exception of the birth of our daughter and a couple of trips for my wife to a hospital we were fortunate to not have a whole bunch of medical expenses. The insurance we had at the time was a very high deductible with most of the insurance covering only major medical expenses. So from 1958 until the 1990's we paid most of our medical costs but the health care insurance did kick in on some major expenses after our deductible had been met. Since 1997, I have been out about $1,000 expense out of my pocket. The rest has been paid by my insurance company. You know, that obscene profit seeking insurance company. You know, the insurance company we are not to trust but rather trust a socialist president who has lied to us at every turn, and a Congress who has equaled him on the truth-o-meter.

Just perhaps the election results from yesterday will send a message that even these idiots can understand, keeping in mind that they all act as if they possessed a brain roughly the size of an un-soaked black eyed pea. (Now for those of you residing in the Freedom Loving Worker's Province of Massachusetts, that is damn small).

STUFF:

As I sit here sounding off and feeling like I am preaching to the choir, I am looking at a photograph which was sent to us by our daughter last evening. It is a photograph of a really good looking, blond haired, 12 year old young man who is our next to youngest grandson. The handsome young man is holding a rifle in the photograph.

Also in this photograph is a really nice 6 X 5 bull elk. The elk of course is dead. I will not mention the location of this elk shooting for fear that the PETA police will be after us all. This was a really proud young man when he called his ol' Grandpa last night.

He gave me a rundown of the hunt and the only thing I was unhappy about was that I was not with them. I was with our daughter when she shot her first white-tail deer when she was 8 or 9. I was also with my oldest grandson when he shot his first mule deer when he was about 12. Of course, my daughter and her family eat quite a bit of wild game on their regular diet and it is way better than most people could imagine.

My son-in-law also took some photographs of an absolute huge elk herd. He said that he lost count of the bulls in the herd at about 86. And of course the cows way outnumbered the bulls. I really would loved to have seen an elk herd that large. Probably a once in a lifetime opportunity.

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Last week we were all able to see just how far Barack Hussein Obama will go to promote his absolute favorite subject.......... HIMSELF.

At a military base near Washington, D.C. the bodies of military personnel killed in Afghanistan were being flown in. Barack Hussein Obama attended this ceremony. I don't care what the political persuasion of a president is if he is honoring our troops. But what does grate on my nerves a bit is that the media was notified of this event and the whole thing turned into a photo op for Obama. I really do wish I could look at it in a different light but I can't. I have read and heard about the many times that President George W. Bush met the incoming aircraft with the coffins of the deceased men/women of our armed forces. Funny thing is that you heard about it much later and I cannot remember ever seeing him use this as a political move.

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I will leave until next week with this quote and when you think of the stuff being pulled by ACORN in league with the Obama administration, you need to think of this short quote:

"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."..... JOSEPH STALIN

Keep that quote in mind.

Later

JEM

WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 28, 2009

Greetings from the West Texas Center For Jingoistic Anti-Socialist Hate Spreading Conspiratorial Smear Merchants. That should just about cover it all, at least for the Socialist vermin who are presently running our national government.

PROFITS:

For the past several weeks we have been subjected to far left Democrat hacks tell us about the "Obscene Profits" being raked in by the health insurance industry. According to Barack Hussein Obama and the snapping mongrels who follow him around, the federal government is the only thing which stands between the average American citizen and total chaos.

Funny thing though, I listened to reports on several radio programs this week which reported that the Associated Press, who up until this time have pretty much been in the tank for the world's most intelligent and articulate human and the Democrat Party, and their report was directed at the profit margin of a number of industries in the United States. According to the reports the Health Insurance Industry was presently operating at a 2% margin of profit. The report conducted by a PRO-OBAMA organization had the Health Insurance Industry rated somewhere around 35th place in the nations top 50 Fortune 500 rated industries.

In comparison the Rail Road Industry operated at a 13% margin of profit. Let's see now, 2% is less than 12%, right? So, where do the reports of "Obscene Profits" come from. Oh, yeah. They come from the same government who tries to make us believe that this administration has either created or saved a certain number of jobs. So, for those of you residing in the "People's Republic of San Francisco" I am saying that they simply MAKE THE FIGURES UP. Or if you really want to call a spade a spade, they are LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Also one must keep this in mind, the Rail Road Industry has not shown a profit in something like 40 years WITHOUT FEDERAL FUNDS IN THE FORM OF SUBSIDIES. After all, one can't expect the Rail Road industry to do something like make it on its own, can we? That would mean that we also expect this wind turbine stuff to actually make it without government funds.

In the long run, I trust my private physicians AND my health insurance provider way, way, way ahead of this federal government.

PAY:

Most of my adult life, I spent working for the public for either a city or county government. I never fooled myself into believing that my pay came from any place other than tax dollars. I realized from the start that my pay would probably not equal that of a similar position in the private sector. But what made up for the lower pay was, pretty good benefits in the form of insurance, sick leave, vacation time, and a better than average retirement package.

I realize that tax dollars from the public are used by governments at every level to provide police and fire protection; water; education; infrastructure, etc.... I also realize that the pay of public employees is in many locations controlled by elected officials and on some occasions by a vote by the public. These are all acceptable.

What is NOT ACCEPTABLE to me, and to many others, is having some government hack, such as a PAY CZAR, decide on the salary and benefits of people in the private sector. Now while I will freely admit that the salaries of many top executives is pretty much over the top on the high side, the idea of some appointed hack having ANYTHING AT ALL to say about the compensation of executives in private industry is just plain WRONG. While I do not believe that some CEO of one of the large corporations deserves some year end bonus of 40 or 50 million dollars, and I also believe that the pay scale of professional athletes and entertainers is pretty much out of line, I DO NOT believe that some government appointee should have any say at all in the matter. This type of government interference allows the federal government to get their foot into the door. They then will tell us that this is just a temporary situation and that it will all cease just as soon as matters smooth out. The initial reports are that this Pay Czar is prepared to cut the pay of certain executives between 50 and 90 percent, and much of their pay will be in stock.

I would like a show of hands of all those who believe that these government mutts will be willing to give up this power without a huge battle. Remember, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So if you feel comfortable in letting some mob mentality Chicago varmint control your lives, so be it. I choose not to sit idly by and let this happen.

Also, if they get away with this, when and where does it cease?

LEGISLATION:

In this morning's edition of the (Sub) Standard Times, one of the sections had a chart showing the comparison in the three primary health care bills. These three were: Senate Health Care; Senate Finance Health Care; and House Health Care.

Now my first question is, why does the Senate have TWO (2) Dos, health care packages while the House only has ONE (1) Uno? Seems to me like the House with 435 members should be allowed at least an equal number of health care bills as the Senate with 100 members. Is it that Harry Reid is smarter than Nancy Pelosi? No, Harry Reid isn't smarter than anyone I can think of. Is it that Harry Reid is a bigger liar than Nancy Pelosi? Nope, impossible. Perhaps this is all done to simply confuse us. Yep, I think that's it. Now just to show you what I am talking about, here are some partial explanations from various descriptions of the three bills and I am sure after reading these we will all be clear on what we need to know:

SENATE - Requires individuals to get health coverage - Requires employers to cover or pay fee; SENATE FINANCE - Requires most citizens and legal residents to get coverage - Employers cover OR pay fee. HOUSE - Requires individuals to be covered - Employers cover or pay fee to a trust fund, with some small firms left out.

QUESTION: What happens if you are unemployed, retired, or do contract labor?

SENATE - Estimate cost - $615 Billion; SENATE FINANCE -$829 Billion; HOUSE -1.5 TRILLION.

Does one notice a bit of disparity in the cost of these three proposals? WHY?

THEN WE COME TO A SECTION CALLED BENEFITS:

SENATE: All health plans would have to offer at least the benefits ordered by MEDICAL ADVISORY COUNCIL. Three benefit tiers cover 76 -93 percent of costs.

SENATE FINANCE: All plans cover basic benefits - primary care, hospitalization and primary care. There would be 4 levels of coverage covering 65 - 90 percent of costs.

HOUSE: Experts recommend a basic package that would cover about 70 percent of costs; out of pocket limit of $5,000/$10,000 individual/family; no annual or lifetime limits; 4 levels of benefits.

The main thing that concerns me with these three descriptions is that none of them are explained well AND just please tell me what is this MEDICAL ADVISORY COUNCIL?

And keep this in mind; For months we have all heard about the infamous PUBLIC OPTION. Then they started calling it the SINGLE PAYER plan. Then in the past few days we have heard from those two masters of persuasion, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi these two terms: COMPETITIVE OPTION and CONSUMER OPTION. All either one of these rocket scientists have done is substitute the words Competitive and Consumer for Public. It is all the same!

So we are not to trust the people in the health care insurance industry BUT we are to put faith in legislation so pitifully explained by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi? I'd rather be bitten by a mad cow than put any faith in any plan endorsed by these two mutts.

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Last evening I received a call from a good friend who is the brother of a man with whom I worked at the Houston Police Department from 1958 - 1970. His name was Donald Williams. Donald passed away yesterday in a San Antonio hospital. I knew that he was in the hospital and I was getting ready to add him to our prayer list but did not get the opportunity. My sympathy goes out to the Williams family.

I also received a call that Pat Murphy who has been on our prayer list also passed away yesterday. Her husband James passed away earlier this year. They were no blood relation to me but we do share some common grand children and great grand children.

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, Tony Aguilar, Julio Mirales - HOBBS,NM; Rosa Villareal - LOVINGTON,NM; Ella Dunlop, Frank Connolly - SAN ANTONIO,TX; Craig Dickson - HOUSTON,TX; George Brogdon - MIDWAY,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA,OK; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Dan Higdon - FLORENCE,OR; Paul and Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak - ORLANDO,FL; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban, Bill Meyers, Paul Bassford - MD; Kate Powell - LOS ANGELES,CA; Janet Smith - OR; Lanelle Kittlestad - PLANT CITY,FL; Bob Love - ABILENE,TX; Alan Miller - PENSACOLA,FL; John Bowcutt -WA; Donna & Bart Mabry - VA; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, SSgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross, Alex Boyd, Capt. Bjorn Thoreen - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas - US COAST GUARD; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Col. Phil Samples, SSgt. Aaron - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, LTJG Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, Ensign Russell Brown - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Sgt. Mark Goodwin - US ARMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory - DEA

This week we have two very special children who need our prayers. They are: Ashtyn Wages (8 months old), ICU Children's Hospital - DALLAS,TX. Ashtyn is suffering from a rare illness and is having to undergo treatment in a very weakened condition; John -Paul Tupaz (6 weeks old) ICU Texas Christian Hospital - HOUSTON,TX. John-Paul will undergo open heart surgery to repair damage. These two young ones really do need all of our prayers as do their families.

I can remember over 25 years ago when our oldest grandson who was born in Gunnison,CO had to be airlifted to a hospital in Denver. He was spared and has grown up to be a very strong young man. But I will never forget how I felt when our daughter called us up to notify us of his birth and the emergency problem facing him. Prayer helped us and him through those times. Let us really keep these two young ones in our thoughts and prayers, as well as their families.

QUOTES:

"President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries........ We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American."................. THOMAS SOWELL

Regarding the Obama Czar appointees: "Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn't know what such people were like, when he has been associating with precisely those kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House?"......................... THOMAS SOWELL

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."... THOMAS JEFFERSON

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."........... THOMAS JEFFERSON

VARMINTS:

President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi (D-CA0; Harry Reid (D-NV); Diane Feinstein (D-CA); Barbara Boxer (D-CA); Maxine Waters (D-CA); Barney Frank (D-MA); Chris Dodd (D-CT); Arlen Specter (D-PA); Attorney General Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe (R-ME); Henry Waxman (D-CA); Vice President Joe Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); "Fat Jack" Murtha (D-PA); Former President Jimmy Carter (D-GA); George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; Chuck Schumer (D-NY); New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin (D-IL); John Kerry (D-MA); Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Former President Bill Clinton (D-AR/NY); White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy (D-VT); Bobby Rush (D-IL); Colin Powell; Reverend Al Sharpton; Reverend Jesse Jackson; Richard Lugar (R-IN); Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Jay Rockefeller (D-WV); Max Baucus (D-MT); Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel (D-NY); John Conyers (D-MI); Steny Hoyer (D-MD); Al Franken (D-MN); Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Linda Sanchez (D-CA); Geraldo Rivera - (FOX News); Chris Matthews (MSNBC); Markos Zuniga (Daily KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (THE VIEW); Bill Maher (HBO); Shepard Smith (FOX News); New York Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; ACLU; THE UNITED NATIONS; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; PETA; LA RAZA; AARP; N.Y. TIMES; L.A. TIMES; SOUTHER POVERTY LAW CENTER; MOVEON.ORG;

MORE STUFF:

A few of weeks back I was watching a college in which Oklahoma State was one of the teams playing. The announcers said that prior to the game, Oklahoma State wide receiver and kick return specialist, Des Bryant, went over to the opposing team's sideline and approached the opponent's defensive coordinator and said, "Coach, I'm your worst nightmare. I'm Des Bryant." Evidently the announcers found this to be cute and acceptable behavior. It sounded to me as if perhaps the defensive coordinator should either have told Des Bryant that his team had cut better receivers than him or should maybe have just said, "Des who?"

The point is, arrogance is not funny, nor cute. Merely obnoxious. Funny thing is, that a couple of weeks ago, Des Bryant was SUSPENDED from the Oklahoma State football game for evidently lying to NCAA Investigators regarding a possible rules violation. So apparently THE TRUTH appears to be the "Worst Nightmare" for Des Bryant.

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I watched a news clip of Utah Senator Orin Hatch calling for President Barack Hussein Obama to get the government involved in the BCS rankings. (For those of you residing in the Freedom Loving Worker's Province of Massachusetts, that is the Bowl Championship Series). For some who may not remember, the University of Utah went undefeated last year and did NOT get into the BCS Championship game. Two teams (Florida and Oklahoma) each with one loss played in the championship game. Well one of them did anyhow.

My opinion is that the BCS rankings are screwed up enough already. Why on God's green earth would we want Barack Obama or Congress or any federal official involved in something which is already imperfect and will remain so until they figure out a way to have a playoff system.

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Still in the sports arena, Marcus Jordan, son of basketball star Michael Jordan, has REFUSED to wear Adidas shoes. He plays for the University of Central Florida and even though the UCF has a CONTRACT with Adidas that their shoes will be worn by UCF athletes in ALL SPORTS. Sounds to me as if perhaps Marcus should perhaps join Des Bryant in sitting out this basketball season. Looks to me as if the coach might consider him NOT PLAYING for UCF.

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Obama vs FOX News. Has the world's most articulate and intelligent human been bitten by a rabid monkey? Let me see if I have this straight:

FOX News is the #1 ranked cable news channel

FOX News opinion shows are also ranked #1

One must wonder just exactly which one of the Obama brain surgeons advised him to go to war with FOX. Probably the same ones who convinced him that he and the First Lady should go to Europe and make a personal plea for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Actually all he has succeeded in doing was to piss off the other news agencies who have been a bit less kind to him than they were prior to the battle with FOX News.

Even some of the networks have sided with FOX.

Way to go Barack. Keep listening to Rahm and those other incompetent hacks. They will yes you right out of office. Exceptional strategy.

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All right, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I know this will really have a negative effect on your day.

RAPPER, Li'l Wayne is facing jail time on a weapons charge. I am just not sure that those of us in the RAP Community are going to be able to function at our normal high level with Li'l Wayne in the pound.

Thank God we have not received any negative reports on Li'l Kim or Li'l Bow Wow. And I am sure that the residents of Hobbs, New Mexico are relieved that "Big Baby" was not named in any negative report.

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Just when you thought that you had heard it all, something pops up which convinces me beyond all doubt that many governments and organizations possess the collective I.Q.s of an intoxicated marmot.

I read an article stating that in 2005, the British Medical Journal called for a BAN on "Pointed Kitchen Knives" throughout the country.

The latest absurd item to be addressed is the "Pint Glass". The move is to replace the traditional "Pint Glass" which officials say can be used as a weapon. The proposed new design will incorporate shatterproof plastics which would change the feel and experience the pub customers currently desire.

All I can say is "Beam Me Up Scotty".

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Let me leave you with this final observation. Every day we are hearing more news of members of our brave military losing their lives in Afghanistan. The military leaders have made a request for more troops and equipment in that country.

President Barack Hussein Obama evidently feels that bickering with FOX News and Talk Radio and fund raising and campaigning for Democrat candidates is more important than the needs of our military. I don't know what strategy is right as I have never been to Afghanistan, but I'll wager that it would differ considerably from the observations of John Kerry who is suddenly an expert in this field.

I strongly imagine that the "Rules of Engagement" currently imposed on our military would leave much to be desired.

Let us keep these heroic men and women and their families in our daily prayers.

See ya next week

JEM

WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 21, 2009

Greetings from the West Texas Branch Of The Jingoistic Vast Right Wing Conspiratorial Attack Machine.

NFL:

Unless you have been marooned on an uncharted desert island this past week, you have heard about the incident in which Rush Limbaugh was a member of an investment group who were planning on purchasing the St. Louis Rams NFL Franchise. (For those of you residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco, YES, that is the same Rams football team that had been located in Los Angeles for many years).

As I understand the incident, Rush Limbaugh was approached by a group of investors who wanted him to join them in the purchase of the St. Louis Rams NFL franchise. According to Mr. Limbaugh, he was interested in being a part of the group. The word leaked that Rush Limbaugh was part of this investment group interested in purchasing the Rams and that was all it took. The usual race baiters, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson began to whine their normal tune. Then the NFL Players Representative began to take up the whine. Then liberals from every corner of the United States began to join in.

They kept up such a shrill whine that the head of the investment group went to Mr. Limbaugh and asked him to take himself out of the group. To his credit, Rush Limbaugh politely told them to stuff it and if they wanted him out, they would have to go public and fire him. This of course is exactly what they did. I guess most people let it drop right there but I was a bit curious as to why the group was so hot to trot to drop Mr. Limbaugh. After all, when he was first approached with the investment proposition, Mr. Limbaugh made the group aware that he was a prominent figure and that many liberals in high positions would more than likely burst into flames when it went public. Rush Limbaugh said that the head of the investment group assured him that this would not change a thing and that they were solid behind him.

So, why did the group change their mind? I guess there could be a myriad of reasons but I believe that when the NFL learned the names of the investors and heard the whining of the normal race baiters that the league itself choked. I truly believe that pressure was put on the investment group to drop Rush Limbaugh from their midst.

Now in the large scheme of life on this planet, Rush Limbaugh not being a minority owner of an NFL franchise is not really a pivotal moment in any of our lives. But what does concern me is that a bunch of mutts like Sharpton, Jackson and God only knows who else, could exert enough pressure to kill an investment opportunity for someone who obviously had the money and the desire to make a business purchase.

Now this question must be asked: At what point in time will people wake up and stop giving in to Jackson and Sharpton and others of their ilk?

Yes, I know all about Rush Limbaugh's comment when he worked on an ESPN pre-game NFL show. I was watching the program when the subject of Donovan McNabb came up and the commentators were discussing McNabb's real value to the Philadelphia Eagles football team. Rush made the observation that he was not convinced that McNabb's abilities were all that they were cracked up to be, and that much of the discussion in the media was due to the media's desire to have a black quarterback succeed in the NFL. Now while I might question the need to point this matter out, I did not consider it a racial attack.

Of course ESPN panicked and Limbaugh was removed from the program. And in fact a black quarterback, Warren Moon, had already been very successful in Canada and the NFL. I believe that Warren Moon is still in the top five passers insofar as total passing yards in the entire league.

But the real point is that it appears as if a bunch of people caved in big time and in fact prevented Rush Limbaugh from even having the opportunity to do something of a business nature which he obviously wanted the chance to do.

And in my book the ones who looked really bad in this whole deal are: The investment group; The NFL Players Representative; The NFL; and of course bringing up the tail end, which is where they belong, are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Of course I have no proof that the National Football League are in fact a part of the problem but they were awfully silent on the matter. BUT, just as I have no solid proof of the NFL involvement, I have at least as much as does our President, Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) when he spouts off about all the jobs his administration has saved.

Someone please tell me how one goes about coming up with a nebulous figure, like 250,000 jobs saved? Let's see now; This week I purchased a gallon of milk, so I must have saved some dairy jobs; I also purchased some bananas, so I must have saved some plantation job; I also paid my water bill, so I must have saved some utility related jobs; I also cashed a check, so I must have pulled the banking industry out of the pit and no telling how many jobs I saved there; I also purchased gasoline, bread, beans, peas, and it goes on.

Anyway, the NFL has lost a long time supporter. I could care less about what goes on with them from this point on. Particularly when there is great college football and even greater Texas High School Football. Get this score in a Texas Six Man Football game: Trent (Gorillas) 132 - - Novice (Hornets) 86. How would you like to score 86 points and get beat?

DETROIT:

Last week I wrote something regarding the Detroit Public School system. I got an e-mail which called to my attention that the Detroit School System has something like $500,000,000 earmarked for them out of the "Stimulus Package". The person who wrote me the information pointed out that this organization was over $200,000,000 in debt and that this system only graduates approximately 37% of its high school seniors.

Why is it that our elected officials continue to funnel taxpayer dollars to organizations which are abject failures?

REBATE:

Last week I was listening to the radio and during one of the news breaks I heard one of the commentators talking about how easy it was to get a home loan and that first time home-buyers needed to get on a stick if they were going to receive their $8,000 rebate check from the federal government.

Let me make sure I have this right. There is no money available to give Social Security recipients their normal COLA (For those of you sentenced to the Gulag of Austin, that is Cost Of Living Adjustment). They tell us that the cost of living has not increased and there are no funds available but yet Congress can give themselves a raise AND as I understand it the cost of Medicare will increase. Atop that, the cost of gasoline is back on the rise as is the cost of food and energy costs.

But the government has enough funds to give first time home buyers a rebate check for $8,000. Funny thing is that when we purchase our first home in 1959, we had to come up with 10% down payment. When we purchased our second home in 1973 we had to come up with 10% down. When we purchased the home in which we are now living I actually paid about 35% down. There are advertisements that there are now loans available where you can finance 97.5% of the APPRAISED VALUE and I have seen some signs which required NO DOWN PAYMENT. I guess the lending institutions didn't learn a damn thing over the past couple of years.

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, Tony Aguilar, Pat Murphy, Julio Mirales - HOBBS,NM; Rosa Villareal - LOVINGTON,NM; Ella Dunlop, Frank Connolly - SAN ANTONIO,TX; Craig Dickson - HOUSTON,TX; George Brogdon - MIDWAY,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA,OK; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Dan Higdon - FLORENCE,OR; Paul and Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak - ORLANDO,FL; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban, Bill Meyers, Paul Bassford - MD; Kate Powell - LOS ANGELES,CA; Janet Smith - OR; Lanelle Kittlestad - PLANT CITY,FL; Bob Love - ABILENE,TX; Alan Miller - PENSACOLA,FL; John Bowcutt -WA; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, SSgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross, Alex Boyd, Capt. Bjorn Thoreen - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas - US COAST GUARD; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Col. Phil Samples, SSgt. Aaron - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Sgt. Mark Goodwin - US ARMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory - DEA; Donna & Bert Mabry - LEXINGTON,VA; Ashtyn Wages (8 months) - ICU,CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL-DALLAS,TX.

QUOTES:

"Majority rules in America, and I will honor the concept; however, I will fight with all of my power to be a voice in opposition to Obama and his Goals for America.".... THOMAS SOWELL

"Politicians may not know much -- or care much -- about economics, but they know politics and they care a lot about keeping their jobs. So a great distracting hue and cry has gone up that all this was due to the market not being regulated enough by the government. In reality, it was precisely the government regulators who forced the banks to lower their lending standards."................................... THOMAS SOWELL

"What is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."............. GEORGE MASON

"The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms has justly been considered the palladium of the liberties of the republic, since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers, and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."...JOSEPH STORY, 1833 U.S. Supreme Court Justice

VARMINTS:

President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi (D-CA0; Harry Reid (D-NV); Diane Feinstein (D-CA); Barbara Boxer (D-CA); Maxine Waters (D-CA); Barney Frank (D-MA); Chris Dodd (D-CT); Arlen Specter (D-PA); Attorney General Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe (R-ME); Henry Waxman (D-CA); Vice President Joe Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); "Fat Jack" Murtha (D-PA); Former President Jimmy Carter (D-GA); George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; Chuck Schumer (D-NY); New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin (D-IL); John Kerry (D-MA); Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Former President Bill Clinton (D-AR/NY); White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy (D-VT); Bobby Rush (D-IL); Colin Powell; Reverend Al Sharpton; Reverend Jesse Jackson; Richard Lugar (R-IN); Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Jay Rockefeller (D-WV); Max Baucus (D-MT); Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel (D-NY); John Conyers (D-MI); Steny Hoyer (D-MD); Al Franken (D-MN); Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Linda Sanchez (D-CA); Geraldo Rivera - (FOX News); Chris Matthews (MSNBC); Markos Zuniga (Daily KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (THE VIEW); Bill Maher (HBO); Shepard Smith (FOX News); New York Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; ACLU; THE UNITED NATIONS; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; PETA; LA RAZA; AARP; N.Y. TIMES; L.A. TIMES; SOUTHER POVERTY LAW CENTER; MOVEON.ORG;

MISCELLANEOUS:

Last Sunday morning I was listening to a local radio station which on Sundays is an NPR broadcast. (For those residents of the Freedom Loving Worker's Province of Massachusetts, NPR is National Public Radio) Many of the very liberal commentators which we see on many of the Cable TV News shows are regulars on NPR. I do not remember the name of this lady who was the host of the show but she had as her guest an expert in reptiles. And the main subject of the program dealt with the fact that "Giant" snakes are invading our Southern states. Of course the broad who was hosting the show was at a loss as to how giant snakes could possibly find their way into the wilds of our Southern states.

So her expert guest told her that most of them at one time were pets which grew too big to be kept and they were taken to remote areas and released. Then of course this woman, who apparently had the I.Q. of a jar of doe urine, asked the question if snakes made good pets. Of course the expert told this rocket scientist that actually, snakes were very interesting animals and we could learn a lot from them.

I thought to myself, just what could I learn from a snake?

I could learn how to eat rodents and birds and how to swallow them whole.

I could learn to crawl on my belly.

I could learn to shed my skin several times per year.

I could learn how to wrap myself around another creature and squeeze the life from it.

Then the thought crossed my mind that just perhaps this expert was as goofy as the hostess.

He did bring out the fact that originally the island of Guam had no snakes but there were snakes brought there via boat and that one of them was a nocturnal tree snake which had reproduced and pretty well wiped out the tree nesting bird population on Guam since the birds had never been forced to deal with nocturnal reptiles in the past. That made sense.

THEN, the hostess asked him a question as to why these giant snakes were confined to the Southern states and the expert told her that it was mainly due to warmer and more tropical conditions BUT THAT GLOBAL WARMING MIGHT TAKE CARE OF THAT and the giant snakes could begin to move farther North.

At this point I changed stations.

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Every morning when I have read the newspaper, I read the comic page. Now I have this procedure down to a science. Things must be read in order so here is how I read them:

Wizard of Id - top right column

Non Sequitur - right below B.C.

Beetle Bailey - left column

Family Circus and Dennis the Menace - right column, side by side

Blondie - right column, third from bottom

Dilbert - bottom right column

Hagar the Horrible - bottom left column

B.C. - left column right above Hagar

Get Fuzzy - left column right above B.C.

That is it, I could care less about the rest.

But yesterday morning while going from Blondie to Dilbert, I noticed Obama's name in one of the strips. One which I never read. It is LuAnn and I don't even know what the story line is but in yesterday's paper there were three girls talking about volunteering and one of them said that President Obama would be pleased or something of that nature. Then this morning once again Obama's name was mentioned in this strip. Again, this is not a comic on my reading list but I just wondered if the comic strip industry was getting ready to bombard us like they do the school children in many districts. I have always found Doonesbury pretty offensive since they were so political but I enjoy reading the comics that make me smile or laugh.

If they kept their political comments to those in "Pogo 'Possum" or "Li'l Abner" I wouldn't mind it as they were pretty funny. How can you top a political sign which says: "We have met the enemy and he is us"? Or when Mammy Yoakum would say; "Ah jes luvs our Gub'ment".

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A few days back I was watching the O'Reilly Factor and O'Reilly's guests were Juan Williams and some talk radio host named Warren Ballentine. The subject was the Limbaugh/NFL/Sharpton/Jackson fiasco and surprisingly enough, Juan Williams took Rush Limbaugh's side of the issue. Of course Sharpton and Jackson and the NFL Player's rep. had all be calling Limbaugh a racist so this Ballentine jerk was in their corner. Juan Williams actually made a bunch of sense in what he was saying and I was pretty surprised that he took the stance he did.

Toward the end of the segment, everyone was talking at once and the Ballentine guy told Juan Williams to "just go back to the porch". I immediately heard the statement and called it to my wife's attention that this slug had just made a racial comment which should have had Williams and O'Reilly in this clown's face. I am not sure whether they heard it or not but a couple of days later Juan Williams was hosting The O'Reilly Factor and made mention of the slur and remarked that he had not heard it at the time or he would have responded. Then a couple of days later, O'Reilly brought up the fact that the racial slur had been made and he gave his opinion.

Funny thing is that I am not sure that either O'Reilly or Juan Williams really know exactly how bad of a racial slur it actually was. According to Juan Williams and O'Reilly, the racial slur "Go back to the porch" meant that he was calling Juan Williams an "Uncle Tom". All I can say is that many of these so called news experts aren't nearly as up on stuff as they think.

There is an old racial slur in which the word porch is used which is way more derogatory than calling a black man an "Uncle Tom".

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Every day that passes brings us closer to losing our Constitutional rights. Please call, write, AND e-mail your Senators and Congressman and let them know in no uncertain terms that supporting Cap and Trade; Comprehensive Immigration Reform; Universal Health Care and/or Gun Control legislation will result in you and your family voting for their opponent.

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I read an article this morning telling us that our elected officials and the Obama administration is pushing legislation which would classify assisted opening knives and all one-handed opening knives as switchblades. I don't own that many pocket knives which are not opened by using only one hand.

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In the same article there was an article telling of of trappers with special permits from the Florida Wildlife Commission had killed 18 Burmese Pythons on public lands. Estimates run as high as 100,000 for the number of Burmese Pythons in Florida's swamps. Perhaps the dinghy NPR hostess should talk to some of these folks.

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Anyway, we spent last week end in Fredericksburg, Texas. What a great little town. We met some old friends from high school and some with whom I worked at the Houston Police Department between 1958 and 1970. Loads of good food and reunion with some of my best friends. I remembered that there were several folks on my direct mail list who lived in the Fredericksburg area but true to form, I didn't have my list handy and we really were pretty busy the entire time. Did I mention that the food in Fredericksbur was GREAT?

Please keep all of our military personnel in your prayers. They are in some tough shape with the way this administration is dragging their feet.

See ya' next week

JEM

WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 14, 2009

Greetings from the West Texas Regional Headquarters Of Vast Right Wing Smear Spreading Jingoistic Conspirators.

AWARDS:

I am not going to dwell all that long on the total lack of class shown by the Nobel Award Committee for selecting as the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize as none other than U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm). About the only other group to which I can compare the Nobel Prize Committee is the United Nations. For the past few years both have become at best irrelevant.

No one pays any attention to the meaningless sanctions imposed by the United Nations, and with very few exceptions, very few place any value on the Nobel Peace Prize. Let me name just a few past winners:

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Al Gore

Jimmy Carter

United Nations

Kofi Annan

Yasser Arafat

United Nations Peacekeeping Forces

Amnesty International

International Committee of the Red Cross

It would seem to me that if an award is presented to someone who for all practical purposes has done nothing constructive for their country or the world then the award loses quite a bit of its prestige and value.

While Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) is touted as being a real world leader and appears to be more interested in global opinions than those of the citizens of his own country, the truth of the matter is this; He is interested in how he personally is viewed rather than leading his country or some international group. Everything he says and does is directed at making himself appear more favorable than in accomplishing any real helpful programs.

Don't be fooled by this bogus Health Care Reform garbage. It is all about MORE POWER for the Obama administration with an eye on being re-elected to another four year term. This has NEVER been about health care. It has always been about a grab for power and in making more Americans dependent upon the government than there are at the present.

I read an article written by George Will, entitled: OLYMPIC GOLD FOR NARCISSISM. Mr. Will points out that Both Obamas, Barack and Michelle, gave dreadful speeches to the International Olympic Committee in their vain attempt to get Chicago as the site for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Mr. Will pointed out that the speeches from Michelle and Barack were about THEMSELVES.

In the 41 sentences of her remarks, Michelle Obama used some form of "I" or "me" 44 times. He points out that Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) was, comparatively, a shrinking violet using those pronouns only 26 times in 48 sentences. Still, 70 times in 89 sentences was sufficient to convey the message that somehow their fascinating selves were what made, or should have made, Chicago's case compelling.

Mr. Will's last paragraph dealt with how many Presidents often become characterized by particular adjectives:

"Honest" Abe Lincoln

"Grover the Good" Grover Cleveland

"Energetic" Theodore Roosevelt

"Silent Cal" Calvin Coolidge

"Confident" Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Likeable" Dwight Eisenhower

Less happily there were:

"Tricky Dick" Richard Nixon

"Slick Willie" Bill Clinton

Makes one wonder if the adjective applied to Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) might be something like:

"Vain"

"Arrogant"

"Narcissistic"

These last two adjectives were my own.

I received a copy of one article which I thought had a pretty good take on all of this. Parts of the article read as follows:

"European socialism cannot succeed without conquering the United States.---- So Lenin was right. Socialism cannot exist in just one country -- or one continent. It must dominate worldwide or wealth and power will flow to those who remain committed to the free market."

"The Nobel Prize is really Obama's payback for disciplining the unruly United States and taming it to be a member of the European family of nations. Europe wants to reverse the American Revolution and re-colonize us and it sees in Obama a kindred spirit willing to do its bidding."

Give those two paragraphs some real serious thought.

COMMON SENSE:

Within the past couple of days, I am sure we all have seen the reports of the young school boy who committed the heinous offense of taking his scout camping gear to school and school personnel making the keen observation that the camping kit contained eating utensils among which was a knife. I know the exact type of kit which this wee criminal carried to school and it contained the same stuff which it contained when I was a Cub Scout AND CARRIED MINE TO SCHOOL WITH ME ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION. Of course the personnel at Edgar Allen Poe Elementary School in Houston, Texas apparently were not nearly as observant as are these educators at this young man's school.

There were also several other reports which I watched:

The first from another school in another state in which an elementary school girl carried her lunch to school and her mother had sent with her some plastic eating utensils, one of which was a knife, you know, the kind you get in some restaurants with to go orders which normally break the moment you try to cut anything with it. Of course this young lady was disciplined for violating the school's policy on weapons.

Does it end there? Not likely.

There was a report of several boys, during recess, playing cowboys and Indians and galloping around on make believe horses and pointing their fingers at each other and saying bang as if shooting a pistol. Now on this one, I see several violations. The first being is pointing your finger as if it were a pistol. The second is making believe you were riding a horse at full gallop. One must wonder why the school officials did not immediately notify PETA. And of course the third, and possibly the most horrid of the violations, was the game they were playing was: COWBOYS AND INDIANS. Completely unacceptable in today's politically correct world. No more cowboys and Indians. What shall we call it? How about "Persons Employed By A Man Who Raises Bovines and Native Americans Who's Intentions Are Completely Misunderstood As Aggressiveness". Of course PETA might have a little something to say about this as well as the ACLU and probably the BIA.

That about tops it you say? Try again.

Another report of a young elementary school boy who drew a picture of something which was the general shape of a handgun on a piece of paper. This violated that particular school's weapons policy.

Can't get any worse than that? Missed it again.

A young boy made a spit wad out of paper. Not so bad, you say? Ah, but add to that the fact that he also had a rubber band and told another student that he was going to shoot a particular girl with the spit wad.

Now let me digress for a moment. You may be hearing from the spit wad king of Southwest Houston. Of course I did not use rubber bands.*** I had a short heavy plastic straw and I could propel a spit wad at something approaching the speed of light all the way across the room. Of course spit wads were unsanitary so I quickly learned that small balls of clay were even better. Did I violate the Edgar Allen Poe school weapons policy? Probably so as I had my weapons confiscated BUT even more important I received some licks, which were also in order, and made to do extra stuff.

*** As anyone with any brains should know that rubber bands are for shooting paper clips or small stapes.

Surely there cannot be anything else, you are thinking. Ah yes.

A junior high school student was suspended from some public school as she had a couple of ADVIL tablets in her purse. This, of course, violated the school drug policy and the girl was disciplined. Now let me try to explain something here so that perhaps even the folks who live in "The People's Republic of San Francisco" can understand. OK. Teenage girl; Over the counter pain pills; TEENAGE GIRL! Need I go further?

What is the common thread here in all of this. Simple. The school officials used very little and more than likely NO COMMON SENSE in dealing with any of these problems. Of course I realize that in today's public education systems the classroom teacher is somewhat prohibited from doing the right thing. But then that should mean that the ADMINISTRATION of that particular school should perhaps exercise a little common sense in dealing with something which I refuse to even call a PROBLEM.

You notice a little earlier I called it a "Public School" System. Well, let me correct that right now. It is called a PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, I suppose, to give some of us who pay the high school taxes the idea that we have actually a say in the operation of these places. I just read a chapter in a book entitled, THE MARKETING OF EVIL, and it pretty well reinforced something which I have known for a long time. It is NOT a "Public School System", it is rather a "GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM".

Other than private schools, the federal government is controlling every public education system in the country. It is a pure fact that the individual states receive large amounts of money from the federal government. Any strings attached? You bet there are. This subject is absolutely so massive that there is absolutely no way to do it justice in my little weekly observations. But just do this. Get hold of an American History textbook used in today's government education system. Then compare it to some of the history which all of us learned many years back. You will find that these current textbooks are more interested in political correctness and diversity indoctrination than they are in relating what happened during the Civil War.

Recently on the FOX News channel they did a special regarding today's textbooks. They pointed out one history textbook which devoted more pages to Marilyn Monroe than they did to George Washington. How sad is that?

Just look at what is being taught to your children and grandchildren today AND even more important, just take a look at most college classes and see who is TEACHING OUR TEACHERS?

In this book, the author says; "Moreover, though I was a high achiever as a student,I can say honestly that 95 percent of what is really useful in my life today, in my career and as a husband, father, and citizen, I learned apart from school. In this I am far from alone."

I urge you all to read this book and get some ideas of what is wrong with our education system and perhaps give us some ideas on getting it back on track. I, for one believe that the application of common sense is a really good starting point. While Zero Tolerance might sound good, it also has some drawbacks unless COMMON SENSE IS APPLIED.

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, Tony Aguilar, Pat Murphy, Julio Mirales - HOBBS,NM; Rosa Villareal - LOVINGTON,NM; Ella Dunlop, Frank Connolly - SAN ANTONIO,TX; Craig Dickson - HOUSTON,TX; George Brogdon - MIDWAY,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA,OK; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Dan Higdon - FLORENCE,OR; Paul and Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak - ORLANDO,FL; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban, Bill Meyers, Paul Bassford - MD; Kate Powell - LOS ANGELES,CA; Janet Smith - OR; Lanelle Kittlestad - PLANT CITY,FL; Bob Love - ABILENE,TX; Alan Miller - PENSACOLA,FL; John Bowcutt -WA; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, SSgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross, Alex Boyd, Capt. Bjorn Thoreen - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas - US COAST GUARD; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Col. Phil Samples, SSgt. Aaron - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Sgt. Mark Goodwin - US ARMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory - DEA

QUOTES:

"The mind set that sees children in school as an opportunity for teachers to impose their own notions, instead of developing the child's ability to think for himself or herself, is a dangerous distortion of education."................. THOMAS SOWELL

"With American students consistently scoring near or at the bottom in international tests, I am repeatedly appalled by teachers who waste their students' time by assigning them to write to strangers, chosen only because those strangers' names have appeared in the media."........................ THOMAS SOWELL

"After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the same politicians are now carrying on a crusade for 'affordable health care'. But what you can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing anything. Refusing to pay those costs means that you are just not going to continue getting the same quantity and quality --- regardless of what any politician says or how well he says it."................. THOMAS SOWELL

"The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing."....... JOHN ADAMS

VARMINTS:

President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi (D-CA0; Harry Reid (D-NV); Diane Feinstein (D-CA); Barbara Boxer (D-CA); Maxine Waters (D-CA); Barney Frank (D-MA); Chris Dodd (D-CT); Arlen Specter (D-PA); Attorney General Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe (R-ME); Henry Waxman (D-CA); Vice President Joe Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); "Fat Jack" Murtha (D-PA); Former President Jimmy Carter (D-GA); George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; Chuck Schumer (D-NY); New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin (D-IL); John Kerry (D-MA); Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Former President Bill Clinton (D-AR/NY); White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy (D-VT); Bobby Rush (D-IL); Colin Powell; Reverend Al Sharpton; Reverend Jesse Jackson; Richard Lugar (R-IN); Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Jay Rockefeller (D-WV); Max Baucus (D-MT); Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel (D-NY); John Conyers (D-MI); Steny Hoyer (D-MD); Al Franken (D-MN); Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Linda Sanchez (D-CA); Geraldo Rivera - (FOX News); Chris Matthews (MSNBC); Markos Zuniga (Daily KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (THE VIEW); Bill Maher (HBO); Shepard Smith (FOX News); New York Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; ACLU; THE UNITED NATIONS; ACORN; Medea Benjamin; CODE PINK; LULAC; PETA; LA RAZA; AARP; N.Y. TIMES; L.A. TIMES; SOUTHER POVERTY LAW CENTER; MOVEON.ORG;

STUFF:

This past week I received a couple of e-mails from some folks who live in different parts of the country. The first was a copy of a letter written by a physician to her U.S. Senator. She happens to come from Poland and is a naturalized American citizen. In her very first paragraph she recalls the tyranny of an autocratic communist regime. She urges the Senator and the Republican party to be a visible and vocal OPPOSITION to the current healthcare reform proposals. She goes on to say how mainstream, common sense Americans oppose the increasing government control over their lives.

She touches on how Americans object to bills being written in the middle of the night, behind closed doors, that are voted upon without ever being read or fully understood. She calls for OPEN TELEVISED HEARINGS and gathering information from various representatives big and small from the healthcare industry. She calls for the elimination of waste. And in one of the most important lines she says, "The most important thing is to make the right changes and not sacrifice the freedoms and access that we enjoy or to irreparably damage our current system."

She went on to say that she was deeply offended by the President's irresponsible remark about physicians, under current system, being motivated by reimbursement. She goes on to point out several other remarks which only show his ignorance and demeans every physician who work hard and are deeply dedicated to care for their patients. AND FINALLY she points out that; "By the way, AMA, does not represent most of America's physicians." The doctor says that only about 30% are members of that organization.

So apparently, not all physicians are behind Barack Hussein Obama's (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) Universal Health Care reform. Wonder how many of those in the photo-op with Obama were there voluntarily?

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OK. This from Detroit,MI. And this from the son of another good conservative who has a son who works in Detroit. The information from the son goes as follows:

The City of Detroit hired an outside Superintendent of Schools. He issued a directive that people had to come in person to get their paychecks and had to present a valid identification. He found that there were 1,300 people on the payroll who did not work at the schools.

He found that there were over 2,000 people on the healthcare program that didn't work for the school system. Ah, but when he took action to correct these travesties he was stopped in his tracks.

Other investigators found that the state of Michigan has over 1,000 different healthcare providers for school staff around the state. When an attempt was made to correct this, the unions got involved and stopped. The unions said it was their job to negotiate for healthcare.

There is an example of your "Public School System"

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Earlier this week I was watching, I believe it was the Discovery Channel. Anyway they had a program about a man who eats clay for health reasons and has perfected a vitamin tablet from the clay. The program said that is was taken by the Astronauts as some of the properties actually did appear to prevent osteoporosis.

Eating clay for your health. I could not help but remember a number of years ago when a hooker in Hobbs, NM was arrested, they all had some type of little jar which contained a red clay. A bunch of officers were confused and I told them that they ate the clay to keep from getting pregnant. They didn't believe me. So the next time a hooker was in jail and she had her obligatory jar of red clay, I asked her to tell the officers why she carried the clay with her and she told the officers that it was good birth control medicine. One of the hookers told me where they went to get the red clay and that there was an abundance of it down in a drainage ditch near the back of a certain field.

The story should end there but it doesn.t. That particular field was owned by an eccentric old man who owned a number of acres where he lived in an old two room house trailer. I am sure he is no longer with us but he was known as B.B. which were his first two initials. B.B. was a bit particular about people trespassing on his property and had been known to resort to a little gunplay for offending folks.

Several weeks after the hookers told of their miracle drug there was a call went out of gunshots in the area of B.B.'s house. When we arrived, B.B. was still shooting from his back window down toward the previously mentioned ditch which contained the miracle drug which was also on his property. One of the Detectives with whom I worked was probably the only person on the planet who could approach this old dude. So he started hollering for B.B. to come to the front door, which he did. My friend went inside to talk to him while I went back to the ditch to see if there was someone shot back there. Upon my arrival I found three extremely muddy hookers who had been down in the ditch digging clay and evidently B.B. had spotted the movement and immediately began to fire on the offending parties.

These three hookers were happy to be alive and did not want any part of filing charges or going to court against B.B. so a report was made and the matter was dropped. I did suggest to the hookers that perhaps it would be best if they found another source for their "Magical Mystery Mud". They were in agreement.

One last item which really got me hot. A couple of days back, Medea Benjamin was a guest on the O'Reilly Factor. Now why anyone would have this heifer as a guest is beyond my comprehension. I was not paying very much attention to her as NOTHING she says has any meaning to me. That is until she started saying something to O'Reilly about "Going to Afghanistan and PUTTING HER LIFE ON THE LINE . That got my attention. This anti-military bitch was actually sitting up there on the TV screen and comparing her fact finding trip to Afghanistan to our brave men and women who are over there fighting every day. Of course CODE PINK has been on our Varmint;s List for a long time but this week I felt duty bound to add this arrogant beetle to the list also. Now had she gone over there and mooned a couple of Taliban terrorists, then I would say that she put her life on the line ------- that is unless the Taliban guys mistook her for just another goat, then her life would not have been in danger -- something else perhaps but not her life.

Later

JEM

Wednesday - October 7, 2009

Hello once again from the West Texas Headquarters For Conspiratorial Right Wing Jingoistic Smear Merchants.

IOC:

This past week should have shown our country and the rest of the world just exactly what a weak administration Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) has chosen to lead. Of course it began last week with Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) getting the 2016 Olympics shoved up his backside. Now if you watched the presentation put on by he and his wife to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), you would have seen a pair of self centered, egotistical, arrogant people give our country some piss-poor representation.

Now, before I go along any further, let me tell you all that the IOC occupies just about the same level of respect with me as does the United Nations. For those of you residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco, that would mean zero. For years the IOC has bullied their way across the globe and in my opinion have more than likely stolen more than they have produced. I am sort of partial to the description of the IOC which was given by Dr. Charles Krauthammer when he described them as "The usual collection of Euro-Trash".

I am sure that the liberals/socialists in the United States are at a loss as to how the IOC could have possibly gone against Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm), his really nice wife Michelle (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) and Oprah Winfrey. Perhaps the United States would have been better represented had they sent the Sham-Wow guy to whine before the IOC. At least we would have been spared the story of the poverty under which the First Lady grew up. I listened to her presentation and knew right away that the IOC vermin weren't buying it.

Hey! That gives me an idea, perhaps we would all better off if the Sham-Wow guy were in the White House and Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) and spouse were pushing the Sham-Wow; Mighty Putty; and that stupid mop.

Apparently the IOC figured that they could steal more from Rio de Janeiro than they could from the Chicago mob. Looks to me as if Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) should have sent ACORN to negotiate with the IOC. ACORN appears to be the only organization who possesses more pure turds than do the IOC and the UN. Notice I said more not bigger.

Also as a side note, I heard a report yesterday that Rio de Janeiro had the highest crime rate of any city on the globe. Now isn't that reassuring?

MORTGAGE:

I saw and heard several commercials over TV and radio this past week which dealt with people who had adjustable mortgages or mortgages which they were having problems in meeting payments. These commercials were begging the people in these categories to come in and see them for some mortgage relief.

One of the commercials said that they could loan up to 97% of the appraised value of the property. OK, for those of you living in the Freedom Loving Worker's Province of Austin, that would mean that they could loan all but 3% of the appraised value. Sure sounds good doesn't it? BUT what if the house only sold for 97% of the appraised value? That would mean $0.00 down wouldn't it?

Now some of you might think that is a bit far fetched but while taking my morning walk around my neighborhood I noticed a home for sale with the sign in the front yard advertising $0.00 down payment, so this must be the case for sure. And some of these advertisements were claiming that a person could get these loans with NO CREDIT RATING and NO CREDIT CHECK.

Let's see now. To whom were they catering? Sounds to me like they were romancing the same people who got loans over the past few years and could not make their payments and their homes went into foreclosure. Have these lending institutions learned NOTHING?

ROMAN:

We all are aware that film maker Roman Polanski was arrested on a warrant resulting from a 30 year old CONVICTION where good ol' Roman, how shall I put it, hauled ass, to avoid sentence. Of course the news mutts had everything all screwed up when they reported that he was arrested and was awaiting extradition so that he could be tried.

Then, of course, all the Hollywood idiots began to put in their thoughts regarding the matter and almost every one of them took Roman Polanski's side and thought he should be cut some slack since the case was over 30 years old. Of course the Hollyweird bozos never caught onto the fact that Roman wasn't coming back to face a trial since 30 years ago he PLED GUILTY. So, his guilty plea was in fact accepted by the judge and that is a conviction. What Roman did was flee the United States to avoid sentencing.

Of course some of the facts of the case finally came out after a couple of days of listening to Hollywood mutts whining that Roman should receive some special treatment. Even an expert such as Whoopi Goldberg took Roman's side and said that it wasn't actually a "Rape - Rape". No, Whoopi, you are correct it was not your ordinary Rape. As I understand it the main facts of the case are this:

The victim was 13 years old.

Roman Polanski was over 30 years old.

Roman filled the girl full of alcohol and drugs prior to sexual molestation.

Roman penetrated the young girl's anus.

So I guess that I agree with Whoopi, not your ordinary garden variety rape.

So my next question is this; Why would anyone on this earth pay even the slightest bit of attention to a super-ugly woman who is named after a cushion which makes the sound of someone passing gas, when sat upon? Or for that matter, why was this butt ugly broad even asked to voice her opinion? Oh, but I forget, Bill O'Reilly says that Whoopi is a nice person and has been a guest on The Factor many times.

SO WHAT?

Polanski needs to do some hard time and preferably with a cell mate named Isadore Fist, about the size of Hulk Hogan, possessing the world's largest knuckles and has the disposition of a Polar Bear on Dexedrine.

Anyway, Whoopi succeeded, once again, in making our Varmint List.

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley,Tony Aguilar, Pat Murphy, Julio Mirales -HOBBS,NM; Rosa Villareal -LOVINGTON,NM; Ella Dunlop, Frank Connolly -SAN ANTONIO,TX; Craig Dickson - HOUSTON,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA,OK; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Dan Higdon - FLORENCE,OR; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak - ORlANDO,FL; Alan Miller - PENSACOLA,FL; Larry MacMillan- INVERNESS,FL; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban, Bill Meyers, Paul Bassford - MD; Kate Powell - LOS ANGELES,CA; Janet Smith - OR; Lanelle Kittlestad - PLANT CITY,FL; Bob Love - ABILENE,TX; John Bowcutt - WA; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, SSgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross, Alex Boyd - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas - US COAST GUARD; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Col. Phil Samples, SSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt.(Fr)Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Sgt. Mark Goodwin - US ARMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna -SPECIAL FORCES; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory -DEA

QUOTES:

"When politicians propose some hugely expensive new program and are asked who the government is going to pay for it, a standard ploy over the years has been to claim that they will pay for it by eliminating 'waste, fraud and abuse.' At a recent town hall meeting, a citizen raised the obvious question: If you can do that, why haven't you done it already?" .... THOMAS SOWELL

"The way the Hollywood elites have sprung to the defense of Roman Polanski to keep him from being extradited to the United States, despite the heinous crime he is accused of, suggests that --- like other egalitarians --- they consider those who are 'one of us' to be more equal than others."............. THOMAS SOWELL

"Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Muammar Qaddafi and Vladimir Putin have all praised Barack Obama. When enemies of freedom and democracy praise you president, what are you to think? When you add to this, Barack Obama's many previous years of associations and alliances with people who hate America --- Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Pfleger, etc.---- at what point do you stop denying the obvious and start to connect the dots?"........ THOMAS SOWELL

Hey! You don't suppose that Dr. Thomas Sowell is a racist, do you? He must be as he doesn't seem to be much in agreement with Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) on anything. OR, could the Liberals/Socialists be dead wrong on this racist issue?

VARMINTS:

President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi (D-CA); Harry Reid (D-NV); Diane Feinstein (D-CA); Barbara Boxer (D-CA); Maxine Waters (D-CA); Barney Frank (D-MA); Chris Dodd (D-CT); Arlen Specter (D-PA); Attorney General Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe (R-ME); Henry Waxman (D-CA); Vice President Joe Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); "Fat Jack" Murtha (D-PA); Former President Jimmy Carter (D-GA); George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; White House CHief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; Chuck Schumer (D-NY); New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin (D-IL); John Kerry (D-MA); Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Former President Bill Clinton (D-AR); White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy (D-VT); Bobby Rush (D-IL); Colin Powell; Reverend Al Sharpton; Reverend Jesse Jackson; Richard Lugar (R-IN); Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Jay Rockefeller (D-WV); Max Baucus (D-MT) Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel (D-NY); John Conyers (D-MI); Steny Hoyer (D-MD); Al Franken (D-MN) Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Linda Sanchez (D-CA); Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Chris Matthews (MSNBC); Markos Zuniga (Daily KOS); Whoopi Goldberg(THE VIEW); Bill Maher(HBO); Van Jones (FORMER GREEN CZAR); New York Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; ACLU; THE UNITED NATIONS; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; PETA; LA RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA TIMES; SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER MOVEON.ORG

STUFF:

It should be readily apparent that the Olympic pitch was much higher on Barack Hussein Obama's (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) list of priorities than was meeting with General McChrystal regarding the War in Afghanistan. General McChrystal has already let it be known that he needs additional troops and ordinance in order to win this war.

I think it is criminal the way General McChrystal has been treated by the President and by members of Congress. Of course House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made several statements indicating that General McChrystal is wrong. So with that being the fact, we should be absolutely positive that the General is RIGHT. It appears as if the media were more interested in reporting matters regarding the Dalai Lama's vain attempts to see Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) than they were in a conflict which is costing American lives on a daily basis.

A couple of days back I received a copy of an article which was co-written by Gerald Molen and Paul E. Vallely,MG,US Army (Ret). The heading of the article was;

Elected and Appointed U.S. Government Officials Who Violate Their Oath of Office and The Constitution Must Resign.

This article goes on to quote our Declaration of Independence, in part:"... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness...."

The article goes on to point out that the U.S. President, Vice-President, cabinet members and senior appointed officials, members of Congress, and members of the Supreme Court take the following sacred oath of office:

"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter; So help me God."

Now, how many of us out here believe that all of our elected officials have lived up to their oath? This article goes on to point out that this current administration along with many elected officials lead our people on a socialist and treasonous death march along with bankrupting the country.

The article points out that many of our elected officials have defiled our nation's founding documents and sacred principles ----- and violated their sacred oaths.

There is a website available: www.standupamerica.com and www.saveourdemocracy.org.

General Vallely has been on FOX News many times in the past

And keep in mind, don't be taken in by all this "Our Constitution is a living, breathing document which is ever changing". What a load of crap. Our Constitution is a pretty damn rigid document. It says what it means and it means what it says. The liberals/socialists who are constantly saying this are actually recommending the very system from which the colonists sought escape. The British Constitution was very flexible and no safeguard of American liberties. Keep in mind that the First Amendment was a RESTRICTION on the power of the federal government, not a grant of power.

Here are a couple of quotes from some of the FOUNDERS of our nation:

"What is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them" .... GEORGE MASON

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms......disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes..... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and the better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."..... THOMAS JEFFERSON

And finally my favorite:

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.".......... PATRICK HENRY

I just wonder how many of our school children have heard any of these quotes in their history classes? Parents and grandparents, you really need to take a good look at your children's/grandchildren's American History textbooks sometime. Go through it carefully and see if you can see how the history of our great country has been re-written.

MORE STUFF:

Within the past week a young student, who as I understand was an honor student, was beaten to death in CHicago. The beating was filmed by someone with a cell phone with a video camera. The young man was beaten by males with 2 X 4 boards. Of course when the news idiots reported it, they said that he was beaten to death with railroad ties. Now this just went to prove that you don't have to know horse crap from wild honey to be a reporter. It is pretty obvious that these bozos had no clue as to the size of a railroad tie. I have had to move railroad ties in the past. It is at least a 2 man job and even with two persons manning a railroad tie, I don't believe you could swing it and hit someone with it. You probably could succeed in dropping it on your own foot but you are not going to use a railroad tie as a club.

Another report this week advised that John McCain is attempting to rejuvenate the Republican Party allegedly at the request of the Republican National Committee. OK, let me make sure I've got this right. John McCain LOST the election to Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm). Why is it so prevalent in politics to go to the LOSER of an election to get them to revise your political party? Isn't this a bit like asking the losing quarterback to describe how to best beat a team to which they have just been soundly thrashed?

I don't know how this might effect the rest of you but I know the folks in Texas are plenty happy about it. This morning, Texas Governor Rick Perry pulled the plug on the infamous TransTexas Corridor which was all a part of a big master plan by President George W. Bush and the Presidents of Mexico and Canada for a NAFTA SuperHighway. This thing was to be a series of toll roads which actually started on the West coast of Mexico and came up through Laredo and pretty well paralleled Interstate 35. The original financing was with some European funds. The NAFTA SuperHighway was going to have its main hub in Kansas, I believe. Of course a couple of years back, the State of Oklahoma put a bit of a stumbling block in their way when they decided they didn't want it coming through Oklahoma. Anyway, a small part of the construction had already begun according to one of our local State officials. But it's all academic now.

I read in our local liberal rag this morning that this new Universal Health Legislation was going to put in an additional $121 Billion in taxes on the health industry. But of course that wouldn't have any effect on us, would it? I'm sure that the providers would just eat that tax burden and not pass it on to their customers.

There also was an editorial article by one of their liberal hacks this morning. But it wasn't about politics, it was about Pop-Culture IQ. Well I am not sure what a Pop-Culture IQ is but if it has anything to do with famous people and new movies and new performers, mine is probably about zero. A couple of Sundays back I looked in the magazine section and I did not recognize a single person on the page. Of course I am a bit of an old movie buff and don't have much use for any of the new stuff. All of these people seem to look and act exactly the same and they all appear to have a regular I.Q. of a dead hamster.

Also this week, the autopsy on Michael Jackson showed that other than being addicted to drugs and other than being dead, he was in remarkably good shape.**

I stole that line, I believe it was the doctor who signed the death certificate of John Wesley Hardin after he was shot in the back of the head in an El Paso, Texas saloon made a statement to the local newspaper: Reports say that other than being dead, he was in remarkably good condition.

Oh, before I forget, after the 2016 Olympics were given to Rio de Janeiro, Shepard Smith did a pretty good job of whining himself. Of course had he not whined would have really been newsworthy.

Other than being completely pissed at our government, I am in a remarkably good mood.

See ya later

JEM

Wednesday - September 23, 2009

Hello, once again, from the West Texas Association For Conspiratorial Jingoistic Smear Merchants.

First of all I would like to deny providing drugs for Anna Nichole Smith. It seems that the death of Anna Nichole Smith is now back in the news so I guess it is time for everyone to either try to gain their fifteen minutes of fame by claiming to be the father of Anna's child and one must wonder if some more will either seek their fame by either denying or claiming involvement in the drug induced death of this woman.

TRANSFORMATION:

Yesterday morning I got up and started my normal morning routine. After getting dressed I went outside to pick up my morning newspaper. When I went out my front door on the first day of Autumn, I felt a brisk breeze blowing in from the North and there was a really fresh smell in the air. At 6:35 A.M., Central Daylight Time, I was immediately transformed from a five foot eleven inch, one hundred eighty nine pound, seventy two year old, really grouchy old dude into: A five foot eleven inch, one hundred seventy five pound, seventeen year old, lightning fast, Texas Class A High School running back who was just getting ready to receive the opening kickoff.

At least that's what it felt like. The first day of Autumn in West Texas is surpassed only by Christmas and the birthdays of my loved ones. I normally take a two mile walk in the morning right after I read the paper and I actually cut almost two minutes off my normal time. So don't give me that ol' crap about you can't go back. Because I know that for a short time you can. I did it yesterday morning.

TIES:

Last Wednesday evening I watched The O'Reilly Factor on the FOX News Channel. I don't recall exactly who his guests were at the time of the discussion regarding President Barack Hussein Obama's connection with ACORN. And it was no surprise to me that Bill O'Reilly tried his level best to convince us that President Obama's ties to ACORN were very minor and were limited to acting as an attorney hired by ACORN some thirteen years ago. He said that this was certainly no indication that Barack Hussein Obama had any real close ties to ACORN.

It seems to me as if I can remember, during the campaign, that candidate Barack Hussein Obama promised ACORN members that they would have a seat at the table of his administration. Evidently Mr. Bill also forgot that ACORN was to have been a major player in the 2010 Census.

He must also have blown past the information that this latest stimulus package had $8 Billion dollars earmarked for ACORN.

I actually believe that Mr. Bill is a bit pissed that President Barack Hussein Obama has recently appeared on a number of other television talk programs. I might add that most of the questions posed to the world's most articulate and intelligent human were at best "Softball" questions. I believe that O'Reilly wants to have President Obama appear on his program badly enough to try and kiss up to him and be really non-confrontational in order accomplish this.

I also feel that Mr. O'Reilly has allowed his international popularity and his perception of power to go right to his ever swelling head. Fair and balanced my backside.

Then after this pitiful stance, later in the week, Chris Wallace had the CEO of ACORN as a guest on his program. She had also appeared This woman was so evasive that "A caveman could see through it". She never did give a straight answer. Now this is what I pretty much expected out of this old squack but then when discussing her appearance with another guest, Bill O'Reilly said that he thought that her answers were "sincere" when responding to questions by Chris Wallace.

If this is an example of Bill O'Reilly's ability to judge the character of someone who is obviously part of an apparent criminal enterprise, then he should move on over to MSNBC where he can be squeezed neatly in between Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman.

I don't know who first said it but "Absolute Power DOES Corrupt Absolutely". I believe Mr. O'Reilly is living proof.

U.N.

Most of today I have been listening to or watching events taking place at the United Nations. I guess one of the first things I noticed was how much President Barack Hussein Obama blamed the United States for many of the world's problems. How much longer will this apology last?

How much longer will we be subjected to The President Of The United States selling out our allies in order to gain favor with the likes of Iran, Cuba, China, Russia, Venezuela, and Libya as well as a myriad of other banana republics. What is with all that crap about, "not being able to accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements"? Now I have never been to Israel but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that Israel is probably the ONLY ally in the Middle East on whom we can depend in a crunch.

While listening to him this morning I noticed that he referred to the United States of America as "My Country" and the entire talk was directed at blaming the United States for the majority of the world's conflicts and the speech was more about him (Barack Hussein Obama) than it was about problems facing the world. It was almost as if, in the mind of the President, history actually began in January, 2009 when he was sworn in as President. Everything before that was irrelevant.

My question is this, who on this planet pays any attention to a United Nations Resolution? Or for that matter United Nations Sanctions? A United Nations Resolution/Sanction is sort of like being threatened by Pee Wee Herman. It is laughable.

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley,Tony Aguilar, Pat Murphy, Julio Mirales -HOBBS,NM; Rosa Villareal -LOVINGTON,NM; Ella Dunlop, Frank Connolly -SAN ANTONIO,TX; Craig Dickson - HOUSTON,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA,OK; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Dan Higdon - FLORENCE,OR; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak - ORlANDO,FL; Alan Miller - PENSACOLA,FL; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban, Bill Meyers, Paul Bassford - MD; Kate Powell - LOS ANGELES,CA; Lanelle Kittlestad - PLANT CITY,FL; Bob Love - ABILENE,TX; John Bowcutt - WA; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, SSgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross, Alex Boyd - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas - US COAST GUARD; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Col. Phil Samples, SSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt.(Fr)Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Sgt. Mark Goodwin - US ARMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna -SPECIAL FORCES; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory -DEA

QUOTES:

"Unbridled power is a blank check, no matter what its rationale may be. No law gave the President of the United States the power to fire the head of General Motors, but TARP money did."....................... THOMAS SOWELL

"Whatever President Obama is, he is not stupid. If the urgency to pass the medical care legislation was to deal with a problem immediately, then why postpone the date when the legislation goes into effect for years --- more specifically, until the year after the next Presidential election?"............................... THOMAS SOWELL

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."............ Greek Philosopher PLATO (428 - 348 B.C.)

"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."....... G.K. CHESTERSON (1874-1936)

VARMINTS:

President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi (D-CA); Harry Reid (D-NV); Diane Feinstein (D-CA); Barbara Boxer (D-CA); Maxine Waters (D-CA); Barney Frank (D-MA); Chris Dodd (D-CT); Arlen Specter (D-PA); Attorney General Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe (R-ME); Henry Waxman (D-CA); Vice President Joe Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); "Fat Jack" Murtha (D-PA); Former President Jimmy Carter (D-GA); George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; White House CHief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; Chuck Schumer (D-NY); New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin (D-IL); John Kerry (D-MA); Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Former President Bill Clinton (D-AR); White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy (D-VT); Bobby Rush (D-IL); Colin Powell; Reverend Al Sharpton; Reverend Jesse Jackson; Richard Lugar (R-IN); Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel (D-NY); John Conyers (D-MI); Steny Hoyer (D-MD); Al Franken (D-MN) Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Linda Sanchez (D-CA); Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Chris Matthews (MSNBC); Markos Zuniga (Daily KOS); Van Jones (FORMER GREEN CZAR); New York Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; ACLU; THE UNITED NATIONS; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; PETA; LA RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA TIMES; SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER MOVEON.ORG

MORE STUFF:

This past week I was watching one of the FOX News programs and they showed a film clip of President Barack Hussein Obama back pretty early in his presidency. The world's most articulate and intelligent human was talking about us not being able to depend upon our military for our security. He indicated that what we actually need is a "Civilian Security Force just as strong and just as well funded as our military." Now I don't know about the rest of you but this is a pretty scary concept. We already have civilian federal law enforcement: F.B.I. - A.T.F. - Secret Service - United States Marshals - U.S. Customs - Border Patrol - D.E.A.- U.S. Customs - Federal Air Marshal Service - Department of Health and Human Services Investigators - U.S. Fish and Wildlife - U.S. Park Police - Bureau of Indian Affairs - U.S. Postal Service - National Security Agency - and a number of other agencies.

So I just have to wonder exactly what kind of Civilian Security Force does the President have in mind for us? Of course all of this was probably taken "Out of Context".

The House this past week has voted to "De-Fund" ACORN. Well congratulations. What really gets my backside read as a baboon's rear is; WHY WAS ACORN FUNDED TO BEGIN WITH? Now I am not saying that many of our elected officials are just "butt stupid" but why is it that these people have been allowed to operate using taxpayer dollars for as long as they have? And as even Mr. O'Reilly acknowledged, President Barack Hussein Obama had ties to ACORN as their attorney back at least 13 years ago.

And keep in mind, the world's most articulate and intelligent human sat for 20 years in Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years and didn't have a clue as to what the good Reverend was preaching. But as Dr. Thomas Sowell has said on many occasions, Barack Obama may be many things but NOT STUPID.

STILL MORE STUFF:

Our local paper the "Sub" Standard Times printed the top-ten category winners of this years Emmy Awards. I am happy to say that the only name I recognized was Alec Baldwin, who I personally believe to be a total mutt, and Glenn Close who I believe is a total muttess or heifer, take your pick. I have never viewed any of the shows. And I would imagine that a year from now, I will be able to proudly make the same statement.

Most of the time, when my wife and I eat dinner/supper/evening meal we watch a small television and watch the news program on FOX News: Special Report With Bret Baier, and of course this program has as a general rule Charles Krauthammer. Since William F. Buckley passed away, Charles Krauthammer has taken his place is being a thorn in the paws of most liberals/socialists.

Anyway almost every day during the commercial breaks we are subjected to commercials addressing some really unappetizing subjects. Among these commercials are those insulting male enhancement commercials. I am occasionally tempted to knock the stupid looking smile off Bob's face in the Enzyte commercials. I think it is Enzyte or Levitra, they are all interchangeable. Point being is that they are not only insulting but unappetizing. Then of course occasionally you might be bombarded by some drug to combat "Yeast Infection". Then you have some blood pressure and cholesterol commercials which all make you aware of some of the "Side Effects" which may include; drowsiness; insomnia; stroke; difficulty breathing; or occasional internal bleeding. The damn side effects sound worse than the problem. I fully expect them to air a commercial on how to disembowel a rotting skunk carcass. Of course I guess I could watch something else, but it seems as if the commercials are pretty much the same. Or I could turn the damn thing off, but then I might miss Charles Krauthammer taking apart a variety of liberal/socialist varmints.

Anyway, Autumn is officially here in West Texas and it feels really great to be transformed each morning for an hour or so.

I received an e-mail a couple of days back which contained a video of the new F-22 Raptor aircraft. What an absolutely awesome aircraft. I do not remember how many were cut from the original request from our military but to withhold a piece of equipment with the potential of the F-22 Raptor is criminal. This plane does some scary stuff and I really don't believe anyone on the planet has anything that can compare. But our present administration cut the original request by at least half. What a crime. Michelle Obama might be proud but the rest of us should be ashamed of the manner in which our elected officials are performing. NO! I take that back, many of us tried to do our part but fell short. And quite frankly I blame the sitting Republicans just as much as I do the Democrats. Think REPLACEMENT IN 2010.

Later

JEM

Wednesday - June 3, 2009

Greetings from the West Texas Center For Jingoistic Right Wing Conspiratorial Gun Clinging Non Sotomayor Supporters.

MURDER:

Within the past few days there have been three cases which have been classified as murder by various law enforcement agencies. What I found pretty unacceptable regarding these three cases was the fact that two of them were reported by almost every news agency while one was reported primarily by FOX News. One of the heavily reported cases of course was the killing of Dr. George Tiller. Of course this does appear to be a clear cut case of murder. And the act was done by an individual with a violent history and has in the past been involved with a radical anti-government agenda. Of course most of the media told us about this killing and made it a point to call to our attention the fact that this radical anti-government was "Right Wing". Since Dr. George Tiller became famous by being one of only three doctors in the United States who regularly performed late term abortions. The number attributed to Dr. Tiller has been 60,000. Of course the federal government began immediately to take steps to provide protection for others in that field.

The second killing involved a pharmacist in Oklahoma who was being robbed by two young black males. One of the males had a firearm. But so did the Pharmacist who shot one of the robbers and also wounded the second who ran from the scene. The video of this event showed the Pharmacist firing at the two robbers and giving a short chase to the one who left the store. Then the Pharmacist returned inside the store and went to the rear of the store. He returned a few seconds later and shot the robber who was on the floor several more times. According to the Pharmacist, when he returned from the outside, he heard a female employee screaming from a back room. He said that he thought that the female employee's daughter had been shot by one of the robbers. He also said that he thought the robber on the ground was armed. He returned into the main part of the store and the video showed the Pharmacist standing roughly where the shot robber was on the floor.

The video showed him shooting the robber several more times. Since it was not caught on the camera, I do not know whether this last part of the Pharmacist's story is accurate, but the Pharmacist said that the robber on the floor began moving and he thought the robber had a gun and he shot him several more times. I believe that this robber had been shot in the head by the first shot. He was shot in the abdomen on the second round of shots. The Pharmacist appeared on a FOX News program last evening and told his version. As I said, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the Pharmacist's account of the event but it should be noted that this Pharmacist also was wearing a brace as he had recently had surgery on his spine.

The third reported murder involved an American Born Muslim man named Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad who shot Private William Long who was a United States Army Recruiter. There also was another U.S. Soldier,Private Wuinton Ezeagwula, shot by Muhammad who did not die. I have seen just a couple of quick blurbs on regular network news. FOX News is apparently the only news channel who gave this much coverage. And as of this time, apparently the family of Private Long has not received any word from our federal government leaders and I have not heard one word mentioned from the White House. I guess they were too busy providing security for other late term abortion doctors. Oh, I forgot, this is a health issue. It is a sad thing when a young man doing his job is killed by a domestic terrorist and the media and the White House don't view this act as worthy of comment.

So at the risk of being really viewed as an enemy of the socialists in our government and news media, I will make this statement:

Murder is WRONG, regardless of the alleged reasons for committing the act. With that being said, I must add that I am probably not going to lose much sleep over the demise of Dr. Tiller. Nor will I get the urge to fall on my sword over the loss of the Oklahoma robber.

But my prayers do go out to the family of Private Long who was just a young man trying to do his job and was cut down by someone who is determined to kill others just because they are of a different religion than is he. Of course, I obviously have a different view of this than does our federal government.

Apparently President Barack Hussein Obama has a different set of priorities than many of the rest of us. No word on the murder of Private Long. BUT he immediately condemned the murder of George Tiller. Perhaps the President had his future Middle East ass kissing, apology tour in mind and didn't want to do anything which might upset the Arab world. Too bad he is equally concerned with our men and women serving in our military.

VOTER I.D.:

The Texas Legislature has been attempting to pass legislation in the state which would require that a photo I.D. be presented at the time an individual votes in any election in the State of Texas. Why would anyone object to an individual being required to provide a photo identification at the polls? Well after this last election and the horror stories we have all heard of the voter fraud perpetrated by ACORN and the apparent lack of interest by the Democrat/Socialist Party, one would have to imagine that persons who support voter fraud would not find favor with this type of legislation.

The Texas Republican Legislators actually had a few right thinking Democrat Legislators on board to pass this into law. That was until the remainder of the Democrat Legislators decided to fall back on the filibuster as a means to block this piece of legislation. Of course I guess that beats what the Democrat Senators did a number of years back when the Texas Republican Party had a simple majority in the Senate. What did those brave Democrat/Socialist Senators do then to prevent the Senate from having a quorum? Simple. They RAN. Ran you ask? Yep. They left the state as a group and went first to Oklahoma and when the Texas Governor sent the Texas Rangers to find them and serve them with papers which would require their return, they left Oklahoma and went to New Mexico. Was this courageous or what?

Bottom line is that the Texas Democrats/Socialists are basically cut from the same cloth as are the members of the Democrat/Socialist Party at the national level.

AUTOMOBILE:

Well whether we like it or not, according to our federal government, we are now part owners of GMC and Chrysler. I would like an offer from anyone for my portion of these two corporations. Yesterday I watched a report on the person who Barack Hussein Obama has earmarked to be in charge of the dismantling and re-structuring of the General Motors Corporation. This man is Bryan Deese who is 31 years old. Probably well educated and experienced, you say? From the report I heard yesterday, Mr. Deese was in his final year in college and took a leave of absence in order to work on the Obama Campaign.

One must ask this question. What does Mr. Deese know about the automobile industry. For that matter, what does Mr. Deese know about running any business, since he apparently has never held a real job. But doesn't this sort of describe President Barack Hussein Obama as well? One would have to guess that had Mr. Deese ever held an actual job and had neglected to pay his taxes, he might have been considered for a Cabinet Position.

Now all of this is on top of our government, knowing that General Motors would declare bankruptcy last Monday, still chose the week prior to this declaration decided to pour in another four billion or so dollars into this company. I heard last week that General Motors Corp. stock was down to Forty Five Cents; $0.45; per share which was the lowest it has ever been. So as I see it, our federal government, who screws up practically everything it touches is now firmly in control of most of our banks as well as the automobile industry.

And to really make you feel good think of it this way:

Our federal government is in the capable hands of a group of people, most of whom have never held a real job and who apparently all have an arithmetic problem, particularly in dealing with income and taxes due on same.

Then you must realize that these incompetent boobs are the ones on whom we depend to handle our safety during an emergency situation. When you think about that, you come to the realization that the only emergency any of these slugs are equipped to handle would be in the event of Mr. Snuggles coughing up a hair ball in the Oval Office.

I heard one person describe the situation like this; General Motors is no longer an automobile company, it is a Federal Jobs Program. If you think that is far fetched, just wait for a few years when in order to by a new American made automobile you will be driving something which will make the Yugo look like a Coupe DeVille.

MORE STUFF:

I was watching Dr. Thomas Sowell a couple of days back when he gave a pretty simple description of Socialism vs. Fascism. He pointed out that in Socialism, the government owned all of the businesses while in Fascism, the businesses were privately owned BUT the government told them how to operate. Both subscribe to the Keynesian economic principles and both types of government were totalitarian in nature. He also pointed out that our present government embraces mediocrity.

Stop and think about this mediocrity for a moment. It has become fashionable for everyone who competes to receive recognition. Our public education system is a prime example. Many of our school districts are more concerned with the self esteem of certain students than they are about teaching children. They are more interested in making sure that young children are comfortable with diverse life styles than they are about teaching them basics.

Yesterday I was listening to a radio program in the morning and heard a man who described himself as an American Indian who was raised as a sharecropper and worked hard just as soon as he was old enough to help out on the farm. He said that he was good in athletics and pointed out the fact that his success in athletics depended directly on his performance. He said that Affirmative Action didn't mean much in the field of athletics. He also pointed out that poverty is a GREAT MOTIVATOR. He said that being raised as a member of a poor family gave him the motivation that he needed to do well in his education and helped him to know how to help others in the same situation. Here was a man who was damn proud of being an American Indian. He refused to be a victim and had no use for those who were satisfied with being a member of the Victimology group. He believed in strict discipline. So do I.

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, Tony Aguilar, Pat Murphy, Julio Mirales - HOBBS,NM; Rosa Villareal - LOVINGTON,NM; Ella Dunlop, Kitten Winthrope, Frank Connolly - SAN ANTONIO,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA,OK; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Dan Higdon - FLORENCE,OR; Paul and Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak - ORLANDO,FL; Alan Miller - PENSACOLA,FL; Gladys Beasley - MD; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, GySgt James Walker, Lt. Michael Rice, LtCol. James Moore, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, SSgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas - US COAST GUARD; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Clair Vest, SSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Lt. William Jourdan, LCDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown - US NAVY; Levi English, Russell Brown, Ethan English - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner - US ARMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory -DEA; Dustin McGuiness - GUNNISON,CO

QUOTES:

"If everybody is thinking the same thing, somebody isn't thinking.".... GEORGE PATTON

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."......... WINSTON CHURCHILL

"If the League of Nations means that we will have to go to war every time a Yugo-slav wishes to slap a Czecho-slav in the face, then I won't follow them.".... THEODORE ROOSEVELT

"John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward."........... HARRY S. TRUMAN

VARMINTS:

"Fat Teddy" Kennedy; Barack Hussein Obama; "Bug Eye" Nancy Pelosi; Harry "The Wimp" Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; Attorney General Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe; Henry Waxman (D-CA); Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); "Fat Jack" Murtha; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olberman; Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; Chuck Schumer (NY); Richard Durbin (IL); John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush (D-IL); Colin Powell; Reverend Al Sharpton; Reverend Jesse Jackson; Sen. Richard Lugar; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Judge Sonia Sotomayor; Linda Sanchez (D-CA); Geraldo Rivera; ACLU; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; PETA; New York Times; Los Angeles Times

HISTORY:

MAY 31st

1918 - Lt. Douglas Campbell becomes the first American Ace when he shoots down his fifth German plane over France.

1927 - Ford Motor COmpany produces its last Model T.

1977 - The Trans-Alaska oil pipeline is completed.

JUNE 1st

1774 - In response to the Boston Tea Party, Britain closes the port of Boston.

1789 - President George Washington signs the first act of Congress, which dealt with the oaths of office for public officials.

1792 - Kentucky becomes the fifteenth state.

1796 - Tennessee becomes the sixteenth state

1813 - Captain James Lawrence gives his last command: "Don't give up the ship!"

1990 - President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign an agreement to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying reserves.

JUNE 2nd

1731 - Martha Washington is born on a plantation near Williamsburg, Virginia.

1835 - P.T. Barnum and his circus begin their first U.S. tour.

1886 - Grover Cleveland becomes the only President to be married in the White House.

1924 - Congress grants U.S. citizenship to American Indians

JUNE 3rd

1770 - Gaspar de Portola and Junipera Serra officiate the founding of a mission at Monterey, California.

1864 - Seven thousand Union troops are shot down at Cold Harbor, Virginia, on one of the bloodiest days of the Civil War.

1880 - Alexander Graham Bell sends the first wireless telephone message on his newly invented photophone.

1965 - Edward White of Gemini 4 becomes the first American to take a space walk.

JUNE 4th

1781 - Jack Jouett warns Thomas Jefferson that "The British are coming".

1896 - Henry Ford makes a successful nighttime test drive of his first horseless carriage, called a Quadricycle, in the streets of Detroit.

1927 - At Worcester, Massachusetts, the United States beats Britain to win golf's first Ryder Cup.

1942 - The Battle of Midway in World War II begins.

JUNE 5th

1933 - The United States goes off the gold standard.

1940 - In Akron, Ohio, the B.F. Goodrich Company exhibits synthetic rubber tires.

1956 - Elvis Presley sings his latest single, 'Hound Dog' on the Milton Berle Show.

1968 - Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan

JUNE 6th

1912 - The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century begins near Mount Katmai, Alaska.

1933 - The first drive-in movie theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.

1944 - THE ALLIES ASSAULT THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY ON D-DAY.

MORE STUFF:

Please do not forget to fly your American Flags and remember those who gave their lives on those Normandy beaches as well as those who made it through D-Day. What really gets my goat is the fact that those of us who choose to remember that day are declining in number. A year or so back I was making an appointment at my doctor's office and the young lady who was her clerk asked me if I had rather have my appointment on June 6th or June 7th. I told her that I would take the June 7th day as I has some things to do on June 6th. Then as an afterthought I asked her if she knew what had happened on June 6th. She immediately answered "Sure do. That is D-Day". I was pretty shocked since this young lady couldn't have been over 19 or 20 years old. I complemented her on remembering that as a special day. She told me her grandfather had taken part in that invasion and her whole family recognized that as a very special day.

Sort of on the lines of the military, I was watching the Military History Channel pretty solid over the past couple of days. They had some of the best programs I have ever seen. They did one hour show on the A-10 Thunderbolt (Warthog) and I never cease to be amazed at how much those craft can take and still fly. Of course I have always had a desire to fire one of those guns. It is an awesome weapon.

They also did a program on Medal of Honor Recipients which is always most interesting. I have never seen one of those brave men who did not say that the ones who gave their lives were the real heros.

They also ran a program on Bombers. This was one of the most interesting programs I have ever seen. Of course they showed a bunch of the World War II bombers and while watching, you had to be impressed with those B-17s and similar aircraft. Then they went on to the next generation of bombers and the first jet powered bombers. Then they got to the B-52s. They had some films of those monsters dropping bombs and I forgot how many bombs they said the B-52 could carry but it was way more than you would think. They said on this program that more than likely, the B-52 would last 90 years before it was deactivated. Stop and think of that for longevity.

Then they showed the B-2 Stealth Bomber. They showed this aircraft on a training run and it began dropping bombs. Then I finally figured out that they made bombs inside that aircraft and just never ran out.

I love watching that channel and seeing some of the equipment available to our military. Of course being sort of old, I really love the old stuff.

Oh, before I forget, in speaking of the incompetence of our present administration, I just heard that some boob put out some top secret information on a government WEB Site and it was called to their attention by someone from the New York Times. The report said that the top secret information gave out the locations of all of our nuclear sites. About the only thing I can say is that the liberal voters in this country have put a bunch of squirrels in charge of guarding our pecan trees. Of course I am sure that the Presidential Press Secretary will have an in depth and comprehensive report on the matter and in the end just tell us that everybody makes mistakes and we should just move on.

Well I guess I had better go and see what other goofy stuff our present administration will pull before this day ends.

Please write/call your Congressmen/women and Senators and urge them to vote against ANY and ALL legislation which will tread on any of our Constitutional Gurantees.

I am very afraid that I am not acting arrogant enough to fit in with how President Barack Hussein Obama describes us as a people.

Perhaps I should apologize. Let me think about that a moment........... Naw.

JEM

jmurphy37@earthlink.net

EarthLink Revolves Around You.

Wednesday - May 27, 2009

Greetings from the West Texas Headquarters For Non Moderate Jingoistic Conspiratorial Right Wing Gun Clingers.

MEMORIAL DAY:

I hope everyone remembered to say a special prayer for our military, past and present, on the day that the Federal Government decided to celebrate Memorial Day this year. For those of you residing in the Freedom Loving People's Republic of San Francisco, that would have been last Monday, May 25th. Memorial Day is a very special day to me and I could not help but notice, and in the process be plenty offended, at the vast differences in today's political parties and the way they appeared to view this special day.

In our local paper, the (Sub) Standard Times I generally read the editorial opinions written on the editorial page which also contains letters to the editor and things of that nature. On this past Monday there were two articles featured on the editorial page.

The article written by a local Republican delegate was titled: "Today We Remember Those Who Died Serving". Of course the article expressed the writer's gratitude to those Americans and their families who have defended our freedoms while serving in the United States military. He went on to name many in his own family who were members of the U.S. military and pretty much every branch of the service were represented. This included his son who is presently a United States Marine, just back from his second tour of duty in the Middle East. He ended his article with this sentence: "Let us always be faithful to those who have died for our precious freedoms and those who continue to protect us today."

OK. That was the article written by a conservative Republican. And as I told you there was also an article written by a prominent member of the Democrat party, who is nationally known. When I tell you her name, you will recognize it immediately. Ready? Susan Estrich. You have all seen her on damn near every news channel on the planet and she is always squawking out the shrill Democrat victimized message. So here is a little about Susan's column on the same page, the same day.

Her article was titled:" Why Is It That People Don't Like Michelle Obama?" On this Memorial Day, Susan felt it necessary to point out that:

1) She is the most popular and most admired woman in the world.

2) She has smarts

3) She has beauty

4) She has style

5) She has a great husband

6) She has two beautiful children

7) She has a very handsome dog

Then she went on to say that "Everyone loves Michelle Obama". Except for half the people she ran into every day. In all fairness, she went on to say that most of these people with this opinion were Democrats. Then she felt duty bound to write a few paragraphs on Hillary Clinton. Then she returned to Michelle speaking of her wardrobe and her vegetable garden. Susan Estrich did acknowledge the fact that perhaps Michelle Obama had made a mistake when she said that her husband's run for the Presidency was the first time she had been proud of her country BUT "That was a long time ago."

Let me see if I have this right: We should all forget that statement made by Michelle Obama back during the campaign in 2008 BUT we should all still continue to harp on the fact that "There were no weapons of mass destruction located in Iraq" and should be reminded every day that George Bush was completely at fault for everything negative which happened over the past eight years.

Sorry Susan, but you can take your butt ugly face and your butt ugly attitude and put it where the sun don't shine. (Now for those of you who reside in the Worker's Province of Massachusetts, if you did not get the drift of my last statement, check with Barney Frank. I'll bet he could tell you just where that would be.)

The point of this whole section is to admit that yes, there are some major differences in the way that liberals/socialists and conservatives think and view the world. And I'm damn proud that there are those differences.

NOMINEE:

Of course, we all now know that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is Barack Obama's choice as the replacement for Judge Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. To say that this woman would not be my first choice is a mild understatement. Judge Sotomayor is an extremely liberal Judge who has made some rather questionable statements:

"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

"Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, or gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."

"The court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know -- I know this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don't make law. I know. OK I know. I'm not promoting it. I'm not advocating it........"

Sort of sounds to me like ol' Sonia could have used one of Barack's tele prompters along about then, huh?

Then, of course, we have N.Y. Senator Chuck Schumer saying that we must be committed to DIVERSITY on our nation's highest court. HEY! Who does Schumer think he is? Joe Biden?

Then of course we have been subjected to all of the facts relating the fact that she was born to a poor family and her father died when she was nine years old. Then we must be exposed to the fact that she is diabetic.

But for some reason, the Democrats/Socialists and their henchmen, the mainstream media, neglect to mention the times when decisions handed down by Judge Sotomayor have been REVERSED by the Supreme Court. Where in our Constitution does it say that you must be born into poverty to be eligible for this highest LIFETIME appointment? Where in the Constitution does it require a Supreme Court Justice to have empathy merely because someone is poor. Where in our statutes does it say that a Supreme Court Justice must take anything other than the Constitution AS IT WAS WRITTEN into consideration?

And what really steams my clams is listening to all the so called "Moderate Republicans" who are afraid to challenge this woman's nomination. Why? Because it might alienate the Hispanic vote. So in the long run, the Moderate Republicans are identical to the Socialist Democrats. All they care about is their own re-election. They just flat don't give a damn about what is right or wrong; What is good for our country, or what will lead us to destruction. Nope, it is all about keeping their government jobs.

TREATY:

I was watching a film clip from a news program on CNN and they came up with a way in which our Second Amendment Rights could be eroded by our government through the ratification of a 12 year old treaty. This treaty called: The Inter-American Convention Against Illicit Manufacturing Of And Trafficking In Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives And Related Materials. This treaty was signed originally by President Clinton but was not ratified by Congress. I also saw in this clip a so called Republican Senator, Richard Lugar from Indiana, calling for the ratification of this treaty. In this treaty, registration of ALL firearms privately owned by people who live in participating countries is MANDATORY. It is a FELONY to not register a privately owned firearm AND it is an extraditable offense. I of course, have already written my two Senators (more than once) regarding this piece o' crap treaty. It was reported that the ratification of this treaty was a "High Priority" with Barack Hussein and his faithful dog Attorney General Eric Holder. We already know that the mutt Richard Lugar is for it.

We had better be really watchful of these varmints. If they can't get in through the front or back door, they will come in through an air vent. They are not to be trusted. And we must never forget that even though many of these elected officials have law degrees and other types of extremely impressive educational backgrounds that many of them have no real life experience and some of them, in fact a quite large number of them appear to have the I.Q. of a snuff can full of bat excrement.

MORE STUFF:

Let me make sure I have this down right. Barack Hussein Obama makes his world apology tour and returns home to take charge of the government take-over of the automobile industry; Then he makes a few tough sounding statements, which could not strike fear into Mr. Fluffy, the neutered cat. So what do North Korea and Iran do? They pretty well tell us to put it where the sun don't shine**

(** For those who don't know where that is, contact Barney Frank)

But does North Korea stop there? Nope, they fire off at least four rockets of which I am aware (the number could be higher) and test a nuclear bomb. Of course not to be outdone, Iran also tests some rockets and sends their Navy out in the Gulf, allegedly to hunt down Somali Pirates.

Now what does our President, Barack Hussein Obama do? He again makes tough statements and threatens to go to the U.N. for some additional sanctions. And then of course he pretty well insults Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by making some pretty unrealistic suggestions as to how they should conduct themselves. I equate a U.N. Sanction to Richard Simmons threatening to whip my butt. Don't mean a thing.

When will our government finally realize that the United Nations is all hat and no cattle? For those of you currently residing in the Freedom Loving Worker's Gulag of Austin, that means ALL SHOW AND NO GO; All talk and no action; or words to that effect.

And in spite of what Bill O'Reilly says on the "No Spin Zone", I think the University of Notre Dame has, how shall I put it, crapped in their breakfast. But they are in good company. The Moderate Republicans have done the same thing.

As I related last week, former Vice President Dick Cheney has been looking pretty darn good over the past few weeks. Of course I always did like his style from the beginning so I was not the least surprised when he looked like the most conservative Republican in the land. I read an article by Pat Buchannan relating to Vice President Cheney. In the article Mr. Buchannan stated that Dick Cheney was giving the Republican Party a demonstration of how to fight a popular president. "Stake out defensible high ground, do not surrender an inch, then go on the attack." That is precisely what Vice President Cheney has been doing and IT WORKS.

Until the National Republican Party starts acting in this mode, I will not contribute a dime to them at the National level. I will still support our local Republican Party and candidates as they seem to have their minds right. But at the National level, the Republican Party seems to be more interested in political correctness and not offending anyone than they are in doing what is right.

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, Tony Aguilar, Pat Murphy, Julio Mirales - HOBBS,NM; Rosa Villareal - LOVINGTON, NM; Ella Dunlop, Kitten Winthrope - SAN ANTONIO,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA,OK; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Dan Higdon - FLORENCE,OR; Paul Gula, Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak - ORLANDO,FL; Alan Miller - PENSACOLA,FL; Gladys Beasley - MD; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, GySgt. James Walker, Lt. Michael Rice, LtCol. James Moore, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, SSgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas - US COAST GUARD; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Clair Vest, SSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Lt. William Jourdan, LCDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown - US NAVY; Midshipman Levi English, Midshipman Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner - US ARMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory -DEA; Dustin McGuinnes - GUNNISON,CO

QUOTES:

"When you buy words, you better know what you are buying."...... THOMAS SOWELL

"Whatever the verbal fencing over the meaning of the word 'torture', there is a fundamental difference between simply inflicting pain on innocent people for the sheer pleasure of it ---and getting life-saving information out of terrorists by whatever means are necessary."........................... THOMAS SOWELL

"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one-hundred percent Americanism."........ THEODORE ROOSEVELT***

*** Sounds like ol' Teddy and I have about the same view of "Moderates" which is exactly what today's "Moderates" are, 50/50.

VARMINTS:

"Fat Teddy" Kennedy; Barack Hussein Obama; "Bug Eye" Nancy Pelosi; Harry "The Wimp" Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; Attorney General Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe; Henry Waxman; Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; "Fat Jack" Murtha; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olberman; Chris Matthews; Geraldo Rivera; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome; Chuck Schumer; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush (D-IL); Al Gore; Sen. Richard Lugar; Susan Estrich; ACLU; ACORN; LULAC; PETA; Code Pink

HISTORY:

May 24th

1844 - In a long-distance demonstration of his telegraph, Samuel F.B. Morse sends the message "What has God wrought?" from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, MD

1856- Antislavery leader John Brown leads an attack against settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas, killing five

1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge, connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, opens to traffic

1962 - Astronaut Scott Carpenter, in Aurora 7, becomes the second American to orbit the earth

May 25th

1787- The Constitutional Convention opens in Philadelphia

1935 - Babe Ruth hits the last of his 714 home runs

1968 - The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is dedicated

1977 - The movie Star Wars opens

2008 - The Phoenix spacecraft lands on Mars

May 26th

1830 - The Indian Removal Act is passed by Congress

1865 - General Edmund Kirby Smith becomes the last Southern general to surrender

May 27th

1813 - Col. Winfield Scott assisted by American Naval Forces, captures Ft. George, New York in the War of 1812

1890 - Louis Glass and William Arnold receive patents for the first jukebox, known as the "Nickel-in-theSlot"

1937 - San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge opens

May 28th

1754 - Virginia militia under Lt. Col. George Washington defeat French troops near Uniontown, Pennsylvania in an opening skirmish of the French and Indian War

1902 - The Virginian, by Owen Wister, regarded as the first Western is published

1957 - The National League approves the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants to Los Angeles and San Francisco

May 29th

1765 - Patrick Henry attacks the Stamp Act in VIrginia's House of Burgess, saying, "If this be treason, make the most of it."

1790 - Rhode Island becomes the last of the thirteen original states to ratify the Constitution

1848 - Wisconsin becomes the thirteenth state

May 30th

1539 - Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto lands in Florida

1806 - In Kentucky, Andrew Jackson kills lawyer Charles Dickinson in a duel for allegedly insulting Jackson's wife

1868 - MEMORIAL DAY IS WIDELY OBSERVED FOR THE FIRST TIME.

1911 - Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 auto race

1922 - The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean War are buried at Arlington National Cemetery

STILL MORE STUFF:

Hey! I haven't heard a whole bunch out of our "Bug Eyed" Speaker of the House this past week. Oh, that's right she is on some fact finding mission out of the country. I have this idea. If she doesn't find out enough facts on this trip, send her ass back.

I mentioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a little earlier. If Iran keeps acting stupid and everyone pretty much feels like they are about to test a nuclear bomb, I would like a show of hands of all those who believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu will ask for permission prior to bombing the crap out of Iran.

I am sorry to report that evidently not much has been going on in the RAP community this past week. I guess they are either all dead or in jail. Surely there cannot be a third option.

Last week end some friends and I attended the NCAA Division II National Championship track meet which was held here in San Angelo. Our girls team came in second only 2 points behind the eventual championship team from Lincoln. We saw lots of really good college athletes perform and met a few of the coaches from Western Colorado.

Well it's time to head down the road and see what else these incompetent boobs in Washington have screwed up in the past hour or so.

Keep on your Senators and Congressmen/Women to slow down these idiots. Unless, of course you happen to live in Massachusetts where your Senators and at least one Congressman? are the clowns who need a "Woo Hit" put on them. In case you are not familiar with a "Woo-Hit" it is one of those tackles in a football game, that is so hard and violent, that everyone in the stadium stands up and goes, "Woooooo". And let's remember, this is not the time to be "Moderate" and "Soft" it is the time to be in an attack mode.

Later..

JEM

Wednesday - March 25, 2009

Greetings once again from an Unwilling Gun Clinging Jingoistic Obama Administration Partner.

I have been searching around for some magazine which does NOT feature a photograph of Barack Hussein Obama and have found that Guns and Ammo, American Rifleman, American Hunter and the Cabela's Catalogue are the only four which fit into this category.

PARTNERS - TOXIC:

This week I have listened to and watched Barack Hussein Obama who has apparently appeared on every television show except re-runs of the Andy Griffith Show. His main message apparently is telling us that we are all now "Partners" with the U.S. Government in taking over various lending institutions and that this partnership is going to "Buy Up" TOXIC ASSETS. Of course what he is referring to when using the term "Toxic Assets" are the bad real estate loans which many of these lending institutions were forced to make to unqualified borrowers by, guess who? Yep, that's right, their new "Partner" the Federal Government. Buying up "Toxic Assets" is not among my favorite passtimes.

I watched several reports which told us that the American People are now 85% owners of AIG. Now if that figure is true then I would like to make this request, please purchase whatever share of AIG that I own from me as soon as possible. I am ready to get out of the lending business.

Either that or let's do like the TV commercials suggest, let's put Delivery People and Firemen in charge of the company. Also let's put some Policemen and former High School Football Coaches in charge of our education system from start to finish. I can guarantee you that some former Military Man/Woman could do a more competent job of running the Department of Homeland Security a hell of a lot better than can Janet Napolitano. Also let's get a Retired F.B.I. or I.N.S. Agent to be our Attorney General. I am also convinced that the average housewife can manage money much better than our Treasury Secretary. As a matter of fact, I can't think of many jobs which couldn't be done better by almost any working man/woman than these elected Mutts.

EVASIVE:

Earlier in the week I watched a Republican Senator being interviewed. The interviewer asked this Republican Senator, "Do you think that the Treasury Secretary (for those of you in the Western Gulag of San Francisco that would be Timothy Geithner) was telling the truth? Now this is a yes or no answer. I could have even accepted the answer of 'I don't know. But what was this gutless Senator's reply? "That's a very good question and there are some other serious questions which must be asked." What a dodge.

Many years ago when I attended my very first school dealing with the interviewing and interrogation of suspects I was taught this: Whenever someone answers a direct question with another question, OR tells you that you had asked a very good question that almost 100% of the time their answer was going to be either an outright lie or would be a stall trying to think of something to say which would dodge the question. I have been taught that in almost every class of that nature the exact same thing.

Of course most of the Republican Senators are also part of the exclusive club which is in existence only to protect the jobs of Congressmen and Senators. Kick 'em all out and start over. I am reminded of a program which I viewed a couple of times over the past 5 or so years dealing with the Spartan society.

The Spartans were probably some of the most war-like people ever on the planet. All males served in the military. Some after military service were elected to political positions to run their civilian government. Now here is where it gets good. After you served your term as a politician and you left office, you were immediately put on trial and it was then decided what kind of job you had done during your term of service. If you had done good, you were acquitted and allowed to go your way. If, on the other hand, you had not done a satisfactory job, your punishment fit your performance. Now that is a custom which I wouldn't mind borrowing from the Spartans.

UNBELIEVABLE:

Now I am sure that you are all aware of the problems in arithmetic which have plagued our Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, and I am sure that you are aware that many are calling for his resignation, including some Democrats. But of course, the world's most articulate and intelligent human, Barack Hussein Obama, has publicly stated that he would not accept Geithner's resignation should he submit it.

So with that being said, I was amazed at Secretary Geithner appearing before a Congressional Committee and actually proposing that his office should be granted broader powers which would enable he and his cronies and the Chicago "Mob Mentality" Obama Administration to be in a position to have even more control over privately owned businesses. The way I heard it explained was that he was requesting "Resolution Powers" for his office which would enable he and his henchmen to merely pass a resolution dictating some idiotic rules which must be followed or face serious consequences.

Once again, I was not a big fan of the bonuses paid to executives with AIG but I also recognize that according to the way the legislation was written, the bonuses were permitted by law. Of course the man who was largely responsible for this language, Senator Chris Dodd, waffled like the gutless mutt that he is and on whom did he try to place the blame? Timothy Geithner and the Treasury Department, the same bunch of bozos who want even more power.

I do have this one question: How can any department in the federal government force a United States Senator to do something to which he/she is opposed? Answer: THEY CAN'T.

Ah, but after this request was made, Nina somebody or other and Juan Williams on FOX News both thought it was an excellent idea. Then I knew for sure it was a load of crap. How can you know that, residents in the People's Republic of Massachusetts ask? Easy, both Nina and Juan Williams are Democrat Hacks. You see, FOX News keeps trying to even out their contributors between conservatives and liberals so we are also subjected to liberal lunacy on occasion. In all fairness though, I must says that on occasion, Juan Williams will say something with which I agree. Not very often though.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I am sure that most of us watched the film clip of Ol' "Bug Eye" Nancy Pelosi do her act in some church in San Francisco. She was kissing up to the illegal alien crowd. She was telling her audience, which contained some legal immigrants as well as illegal aliens that they were all "Patriots" and that "We need to stop breaking in doors at 2 o'clock in the morning. I don't guess Nancy knew that evidently someone was filming her do her little act. This woman is a disgrace. Seems as if California has more than its share of elected idiots.

On March 25, 1634, about two hundred English settlers climbed off of two small ships, the Ark and the Dove which were anchored in the Potomac River. They rowed ashore to a slice of land which they name St. Clement's Island. They erected a cross, and held a thanksgiving service. These settlers were Catholic and Protestant alike. It was the beginning of the colony of Maryland. Good thing they aren't around today to see what has happened.

On March 25, 1865, Robert E. Lee ordered his last attack of the Civil War against Fort Steadman, near Petersburg, VIrginia. On this same date in 1965. civil rights activists ended their march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama at the steps of the state capitol.

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, James & Pat Murphy, Tony Aguilar - HOBBS,NM; Ella Dunlop, Kitten Winthrope - SAN ANTONIO,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA, OK; Susan O'Brien -VACAVILLE,CA; Meryl Coleman, Dan Higdon - FLORENCE, OR; Paul Gula - ORlANDO,FL; Bill Alderman - CELINA,TX; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, GySgt. James Walker, Lt. Michael Rice, LtCol. James Moore, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, Sgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas - US COAST GUARD; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Clair Vest, SSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Lt. William Jourdan, LCDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown - US NAVY; Midshipmen Levi English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek - US ARMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory - DEA; Dustin McGuinnes - GUNNISON, CO*

VARMINTS:

"Fat Teddy" Kennedy; Attorney General Eric Holder; "Bug Eye" Nancy Pelosi; Harry "The Wimp" Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; Olympia Snowe; Henry Waxman; Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; "Fat Jack" Murtha; Barack Hussein Obama; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olberman; Chris Matthews; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; ACLU; PETA; LULAC; ACORN; All of the Obama appointees

QUOTES:

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality."................... AYN RAND

"We are not yet a banana republic, though that is the direction in which some of our politicians are taking us- - especially those politicians who make a lot of noise about 'compassion' and 'social justice'. What makes this all the more painfully ironic is that it is precisely those members of Congress who have had the most to do with creating the risks that led to the current economic crisis who are making the most noise against others, and summoning people before their committee to be browbeaten and humiliated on nationwide television.".............. DR. THOMAS SOWELL

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing it happened. ....... I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform. .... NORMAN THOMAS - 1944 - Six time Socialist Party Presidential Candidate.

MORE STUFF:

A little earlier today I was listening to reports of some of Barack Hussein Obama's new tax law proposals One of them had to do with cutting down on the amount of charitable contributions which would be eligible to be written off as an income tax deduction. It struck me almost immediately what was behind this game.

Most of the contributions, particularly large contributions, made to charities are made by people in the middle to upper income brackets. Now I don't know for sure how this new tax deduction will read but I do know the idea behind it. If the deduction has a ceiling put on it, many contributors will cut off their charitable donations at that point. This will have an immediate effect on the charitable entities and their staff and services will have to be cut. OH! But wait a minute I know where we can make up the difference. The good old Obama Socialist Government will give us the money. So in reality all Obama and his "Mob Mentality" cronies are up to is getting more people DEPENDENT on the Federal Government. They are trying to create as many welfare recipients as they can.

Obama gave everybody the little double shuffle about not raising taxes. OK. Let's look at this for a minute. Say you are making over $200 thousand per year. I am not sure exactly what the tax rate is or when it jumps from 15% to 25% or whatever the next step is. But if they take away $10,000 in donations or a combination of donations and interest and say you are in the 25% bracket, then you will be responsible for paying an additional $2,500 in taxes. I'm sorry but that is a tax increase any way you look at it. Now I must admit that if you are in the 25% bracket and you are making a donation to save the taxes you are spending a dollar to save twenty five cent. But the whole point of his program is to force more people/charities to be dependent on the Federal Government.

I must say at this point that lemmings, aimlessly running off the cliff to a certain death, show more intelligence than did many of the American voters last November. I heard someone say this morning that in reality, our country would be better off had Hillary Clinton been elected. I thought about that and decided that they were probably correct. I think she is a hell of a lot tougher than this con man, and it might have been sort of interesting every day to have been subjected to a high pitched laugh, followed by: "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too."***

**** Now for those of you residing in the Freedom Loving Peoples Province of Austin, those were the words spoken by The Wicked Witch Of The West in the movie, The Wizard Of Oz.

Anyway, tough times ahead Mouseketeers.

Later

JEM

WEDNESDAY - February 18, 2009

Hello once again from the West Texas Headquarters Of The Culture Of Corrupt Jingoist Smear Machines.

STIMULUS:

Let me get this out of the way first; NO I HAVE NOT READ THE STIMULUS BILL. So that makes me at least even with the majority of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. None of them have read this idiotic piece of legislation either. Oh, some of them probably read small parts but I'll wager that the only parts they read were those which dealt with their own particular district or state.

According to some of the information which I read, California was first with funding for 1971 projects; Florida was second with funding for 1752 projects; and Texas was third with funding for 1240 projects. Now since I live in Texas I believe I have a right to sound off on the $10.7 BILLION Taxpayer Dollars earmarked for my state.

Leading the State of Texas in hog meat is the City of Dallas with nearly $1.3 BILLION; Followed by San Antonio with $1.07 BILLION; Followed by Austin with $1.03 BILLION and Houston with a paltry $588 MILLION in swine handouts. Now I am not going to bore you with everything on which these funds are being spent but San Antonio has $10 MILLION earmarked for upgrading the Alamo Dome. Now I am sure that the Alamo Dome probably could use some sprucing up but this is a stadium owned, I believe, by either The City of San Antonio or Bexar, County. So why should taxpayer money from other parts of the state and nation be used to improve something which is owned by the government in that area? Actually that doesn't gripe me as much as the $18 MILLION earmarked in Austin for a boardwalk around "Lady Bird" Lake. But I imagine that quite a bit of this so called "Stimulus Package" in every state is going to be blown on similar projects.

But before I leave this subject, I really must mention some funding earmarked for the state of California. I read in a couple of places where this idiotic piece of legislation also earmarks some $30 MILLION for wetlands conservation in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco Bay area district. Part of this will be earmarked for a project designed to protect the "Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse". Now I thought this type of money being spent to make sure that a particular type of rodent feels at home was absurd. But then I began to really think about this and am just about to change my mind, and here's why:

Just imagine the natural habitat of the "Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse" being unable to support the little beasts, what would happen?

For starters they would more than likely move out of their rural settings and invade California cities in numbers too great to imagine. OK now you are going to have to stay with me on this. Just suppose that several of these creatures came in contact with Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Maxine Waters, Diane Feinstein, Henry Waxman, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The marsh mice would be stricken immediately with an incurable disease known as; Stupido Politicianus. Now this disease has no known cure and can be contracted by just being in the same area as one of the above named carriers. It is highly contagious and anything coming in contact with one of the marsh mice would also contract the disease. I'm sure that you can see that from the original contaminated marsh mice how the disease could spread to other marsh mice and in turn could spread to birds, cats and other predators. So perhaps spending $30 MILLION taxpayer dollars to keep these little buggers where they belong might not be all that bad. Of course some of the mice could come in contact with Barbara Streisand or Jane Fonda or perhaps Whoopi Goldberg and be stricken with Entertainus Idioticus. This also has no known cure. I feel sure that PETA is most supportive of this earmark as is The Sierra Club.

But seriously, the American public has been lied to by BOTH Houses of Congress as well as the world's most articulate and intelligent human. President Obama felt it necessary to fly to Colorado to sign this piece-o-crap bill. According to the news he did this to show his support for "Green Legislation" which evidently is liberally sprinkled throughout this bill.

Like for instance, they never told the American public that giving these tax dollars to the states to dispense to the various cities and statewide projects is normally sliced up with a percentage of the total amount received by each particular government entity going toward "Administrative Fees". I can recall working on federal grants to law enforcement in which the whole amount designated for a particular state had a percentage taken by the state for "Administrative Fees". Then when the funds hit each city or county, that city/county could also take a percentage off the top for their own "Administrative Fees". I must say that the City for whom I was employed DID NOT take their "Administrative Fees" with the entire amount going for the equipment or salaries for which it was intended. Not all cities did that but ours did.

I keep hearing all of these so called economic experts attempting to put us all on a guilt trip like it is somehow our fault that certain members of our population applied for and received a loan which both the lender and the borrower knew at the time the loan was made, was completely un affordable to the borrower. It doesn't take a genius or a master's degree to figure out that someone making $35 to a$40,000 per year cannot afford the monthly payments on a $175 - $200,000.00 home. But since our government has made it their business to involve themselves at every level of our lives, and it was their wish that EVERYONE was entitled to own "Affordable Housing".

Now our government is wanting to control the housing market just like they want to control the lending institutions and the automobile industry. So I have this question for our federal government. Since the government feels it incumbent on them to give all sorts of perks to people who made bad loans and cannot afford what they purchase, what are they going to do for the majority of Americans who lived within a budget and saved money and did without certain things to be able to purchase and pay off their loans on or before the deadline? I hear stories every day of families who did without new automobiles, cell phones for their children, credit cards for their children, iPods, satellite television and any number of other things so that they could, dare I say it, SAVE MONEY and pay cash for what they needed or wanted.

Believe me when I tell you that the Socialists who now are in the majority in our federal government hate those of us who perhaps actually did save money. That makes some of us a little less dependent upon the federal government. The Socialists want us all to be dependent upon them for everything we need. Of course they don't want that for themselves, just you and I.

OTHER STUFF:

Sometime last week, I believe it was, Bill O'Reilly made a comment about White House Correspondent, Helen Thomas, bearing a striking resemblance to "The Wicked Witch of the West" in The Wizard Of Oz. The role, incidentally was played by Margaret Hamilton. Now while I do agree with Mr. O'Reilly on a number of things, I had to take issue with him on this. So I tried to find video of Helen Thomas and in the few clips I was able to pull up I was unable to get a good look at her as there was always a troop of flying monkeys swirling around her head. However in every single clip Helen could be heard to say, "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too." So I guess I will have to give in to Mr. O'Reilly and take the position that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Anyway, to me she always sort of reminded me of Jabba The Hutt from Star Wars.

OK. You want to talk about government intrusion into your life? Then try this on for size. And of course it could come from no place other than the "Freedom Loving Worker's Province of Massachusetts". This was from Scripps wire service: "A tentative plan to overhaul a Massachusetts transportation system by using GPS (for those of you residing in The People's Republic of San Francisco, that would be a Global Positioning Satellite) chips to charge motorists a one quarter cent for every mile behind the wheel may have angered some drivers."

" It's outrageous, it's kind of Orwellian, Big Brotherish, said Sen. Scott Brown, (R-Wrentham) who drafted legislation last week to prohibit the practice."

"But a 'Vehicle Miles Travelled' program like the one the Massachusetts Governor may unveil this week has already been tested --------- with positive results------- IN OREGON."

"Governors in Idaho and Rhode Island as well as the federal government, also are talking about similar programs."

All I can say is "Beam me up Mr. Spock, these clowns are out of their minds". You see, a real clue in this is that "It worked----in Oregon". The defense rests.

Earlier this week I went to one of our local Wal-Mart stores to purchase some .22 caliber ammunition for my two youngest grandsons. Now keep in mind, this was .22 rim fire ammunition. One of the stores had one box left and when I went to pay, the clerk asked me if the ammunition was for a rifle or a pistol. Now the ammunition was for the .22 rifles used by my two grandsons so I told him for a rifle. He punched some key on the cash register and I suppose it registered the kind of weapon for which the ammo was purchased. I went to the other Wal-Mar store and purchased another box of .22 rim fire ammunition and once again was asked if the ammo was for a rifle or a pistol so I again answered for a rifle. I am still not sure why this question was asked and if this policy just started but I strongly imagine that the owners of the Wal-Mart chain themselves could care less about what type of weapon the ammo would be used in. Strange, then again maybe not so strange. I think the next time I will tell them that it is for a handgun and see what happens.

Last week I was driving back to my house. Just behind our house runs an arroyo which actually goes several miles to the North before emptying I believe into the Concho River. The South end of this arroyo starts several hundred yards at the city limits and actually starts at the property line of a ranch. Lots of deer and other wildlife live on that ranch among which are some feral cats. These cats are plenty wild and on occasion in the early mornings I can catch deer feeding in the arroyo along with a number of feral cats heading back toward the ranch.

On this particular morning I saw a huge orange colored tom cat (For those in the Peoples Gulag of Austin, that would be a male cat) crossing the street heading for the arroyo and headed for the ranch. I had never seen this particular cat before and was absolutely amazed at his size. When he walked, he reminded me of one of those huge male lions in some of the African movies. He walked very slowly and deliberate and was really showing the world that he was in charge. I stopped and let him cross in front of me and he stopped in the middle of the street and gave me a glare. I noticed then that he had a tail which had been cut off about midway. His left ear was chewed off and just barely stuck out from his head. This ol' boy had seen some battles and he gave me a look that said "OK, I've let you and that green monster go this morning but you better be damn careful anytime you see me." After staring at me for about 15 seconds he slowly turned and headed for the arroyo and the ranch. What a great animal. This old orange tom cat had more character than our entire House and Senate. Of course a group of lemmings headed for the cliff has more character than do those mutts.

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, James & Pat Murphy, Tony Aguilar - HOBBS,NM; Ella Dunlop, Kitten Winthrope - SAN ANTONIO,TX; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Arthur Baebel - HOUSTON,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA,OK; Meryl Coleman, Dan Higdon - FLORENCE,OR; Paul Gula - ORLANDO,FL; Bill Alderman - CELINA,TX; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow; GySgt. James Walker, Cpl. Michael Rice, LtCol. James Moore, Cpl. Brandon Robinson; Sgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas - US COAST GUARD; Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Clair Vest, SSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Lt. William Jordan, LCDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown - US NAVY; Midshipmen Levi English, Russell Brown US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt.(Fr) Kevin Peek - US ARMY; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory - DEA

QUOTES:

"Imagine you see a person at work taking buckets of water from the deep end of the swimming pool and dumping them into the shallow end in an attempt to make it deeper. You would deem him stupid. That scenario is equivalent to what Congress and the new President proposes for the economy.".............. WALTER WILLIAMS

"A little state control never hurt anyone."........ JERRY BROWN-Former California Governor

""Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and mechanical products, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism."............... KARL MARX-Das Kapital, 1867

"We are well on our way with this President and Congress." ......... JIM MURPHY-2009

VARMINTS:

"Fat Teddy" Kennedy; "Fat Jack" Murtha; "Melon Head" Kerry; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Barney Frank; Diane Feinstein; Henry Waxman; Barbara Boxer; Chuck Schumer; Bill Clinton; "Mr. Toad" Al Franken; Arlen Specter; Olympia Snowe; Susan Collins; Jimmy Carter; President Barack Hussein Obama* After his performance this week, I just could no longer leave him off this list.

Now for something completely different. This past week was of course St. Valentine's Day on February 14th. February 15th was our 51st Wedding Anniversary. February 20th is my wife's Birthday. So I have been pretty fortunate to have all of these important days occur within a week. Sure makes it easy for me.

Oh, before I forget, this past week we were subjected to two different FOX News shows on which Whoopi Goldberg was being interviewed. One was the O'Reilly Factor and this was a two part interview and we were subjected to Whoopi two nights in a row. But the big hoopla was on the Sean Hannity Show. All week he advertised that he was going to go 'Head to Head' with Whoopi Goldberg. I did not watch any of these interviews in their entirety but saw enough to reinforce my opinion that Whoopi Goldberg is a pure mutt. Of course O'Reilly was much better than Hannity as it was obvious that O'Reilly was much more intelligent than was Whoopi. I'm not sure about Hannity though. But I still must ask this question, Why would anyone care about the opinion of a super ugly woman who was named after a cushion which made the noise of someone passing gas? It is beyond me.

Well I must be off for another week and since I am such a fan of PETA and the Sierra Club I believe I will start a "Save The Fire Ants" movement. After all, insects do have rights. Or so I'm told.

Later

JEM

Thursday - February 12, 2009

Greetings from the West Texas Headquarters for Jingoistic Smear Merchants From The Land Of The Tyranny Of Oil. At least this is pretty much how President Barack Hussein Obama views American citizens who are involved in any phase of the petroleum business. "The Tyranny Of Oil" was one of his descriptive statements in one of his town hall meetings.

TYRANNY OF OIL:

So we now are aware of his feelings toward an industry which actually does quite a bit more than manufacture fuel. Someone really needs to explain to the new President that petroleum is used in the manufacture of many other things. Medicines, plastics just to name a couple. Here are just a few of the over 6,000 products made from petroleum:

Solvents, Bearing grease, Ink, Floor wax, Insecticides, Perfumes, Shoe Polish, Tool boxes, Putty, Dyes, Panty hose, Epoxy, Paint, Clothing, Candles, Trash bags, Antifreeze, Awnings, Detergents, Artificial limbs, HEART VALVES, Pillows, Parachutes, Telephones, Artificial turf, Tents, Vitamins, Antihistamines, Petroleum jelly, Toothpaste............. and the list can go on to name over 6,000. One 42 gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline. Now even those of you residing in the "People's Republic of San Francisco" should be able to tell that 19.4 is less than 50% of 42. So to put it so that even the residents of the "Freedom Loving Worker's Province of Massachusetts" can figure out that less than half of petroleum goes into the manufacture of fuel.

But keep in mind, here is a President who, with a straight face, tells us that this idiotic piece of legislation which the liberals/socialists call a "Stimulus Package" contains NO PORK.

PORK:

OK. Contains no pork. Well here are just a few items which should do a damn good job of being used as an excellent "Pork Substitute":

$1.5 million to reduce prostitution in Dayton, Ohio.

$ 5 billion for political action groups which include ACORN

$ 1 billion for a frisbee golf course

$ 4.8 million for polar bear exhibit at the Providence, RI zoo

$650 million on top of the billions already laid out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons.

$1 billion for Amtrak

$34 million to remodel the Department of Commerce headquarters

........and the list goes on.

I heard on a couple of morning programs that the bill is now in excess of 1400 pages. Someone please convince me that these elected mutts have actually read any portion of the bill other than that which tosses pork in their direction.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING:

Earlier in the week I was reading an article on the editorial page of our local news paper The (Sub) Standard Times. The article was by Dr. Thomas Sowell and was entitled: Government Fueled Housing Crisis.

Here is a little portion of that article:

"When I first left home in 1948, I rented a room about 4 by 8 feet, costing $5.75 a week. Since my take home pay was $22.50, that was 'affordable housing'.""After three years of living in rented rooms, I began living in Marine Corps barracks, and sometimes tents --- none of which cost me anything. That was certainly affordable."

Dr. Sowell went on to tell of living in rented housing and apartments for the next six years. None of them were fancy but were affordable. He went on to tell of gradually upgrading his rental housing until about 1981 when he began to purchase his FIRST HOUSE. Let's see now, that would be some 33 years after first leaving home. He points out that most people, without government interference, will generally pay for housing that they can afford. He went on to say:

"What they are saying and doing usually boils down to trying to enable people to choose what housing they want first---- and then have some law or policy where somebody else, somewhere else, somehow or other make that housing 'affordable' for them."

Of course Dr. Sowell points out that this is a formula for disaster. Our federal government over the past couple of administrations have made it possible for people to go around buying whatever they wanted regardless of their financial means. These people are depending upon someone else to make up the difference.

Dr. Sowell said that he did basically what most of us did. We compared the cost of housing with our income at that particular time. THAT is affordable housing.

When you look back beginning with the Carter Administration, every President, Democrat/Socialist and Republican alike have slowly been chipping away at an individual's "Personal Responsibility" for setting up their own standards as to what they could afford.

GLOBAL WARMING:

I once again saw an editorial in our local newspaper written by Deroy Murdock. The editorial piece was titled: "Even Left Laughs at Global Warming". He had several sources whom he quoted. Here are a couple:

*Commentator Harold Ambler declared January 3rd on HuffingtonPost.com that he voted for Barack Obama. He further added that Al Gore "Owes the world an apology for his actions regarding global warming." He called Gore's assertion that 'the science is in' on this issue "the biggest whopper ever sold to the public in the history of mankind."

*"Not only is it false that human activity has any significant effect on global warming or the weather in general, but for the record, global warming is OVER", retired Navy meteorologist Martin Hertzberg wrote on carbon-sense.com. The physical chemist and self-described "Scientist and life-long liberal Democrat added: "The average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere has declined over the last 10 years. From the El Nino Year of 1998 until January, 2007 it dropped a quarter of a degree Celsius (0.45 degrees Fahrenheit). From January, 2007 to the spring of 2008, it dropped a whopping three quarters of a degree Celsius (1.35 degrees Fahrenheit). This data further proves that the fear-mongering hysteria about human caused global warming is completely unjustified.

BUT, in our new and improved Stimulus Package, we have $400 million dollars earmarked for the study of global warming. How absurd is that?

TRILLION COMPARISON:

I received an e-mail earlier in the week as a forward and I later e-mailed the author of these figures. The man who came up with them is a retired General. He stacked up a number of $100 bills and measured them with a machinist micrometer and then did the math from there. Here are his results:

If you could stack $100 bills this high, here would be the results ---- 1 billion hundred dollar bills would be almost exactly 1/2 mile high, which means that $1 Trillion dollars would extend 500 miles into space.

Anyway this is roughly what this stimulus package is going to cost the taxpayers of this country.

SOCIALISM - Keynes At Harvard - Published 1960

"In 1913, Keynes adopted the concept of eliminating gold as a standard of the monetary system of the nations of the world. His notion of a managed currency,(which he sold Franklin D. Roosevelt on twenty years later) was an old socialist catch call, espoused by Fabian Socialists since the turn of the century. It is a fundamental concept of State-Socialism."

"Keynes proceeded to expound, in clear-cut terms, that private enterprise, as a general rule, was historically finished and that socialized forms were a natural and progressive development of society."

"Keynes' attitude toward the free enterprise system was in all essentials the same as that of the Fabian Socialists. The Fabian Socialists project of allowing private enterprise to operate while gradually chipping away at its foundations until THE GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER ALL FUNCTIONS was identical with the Keynesian concept. Keynes advances the softening-up stage as a basis for future socialism."

"Keynes sneers at private enterprise as 'often a lottery' from which 'great inequalities of wealth come about'."

"Fabian Socialists have long considered those who saved and invested as a stumbling block against the march of Socialism. Keynes concept of controlling society extends beyond political and economic matters. He even advocates social control of the number of children per family."

Along these lines, does the $200 million dollar earmark to "Family Planning Services" in the new so called 'Stimulus Package' begin to fall into place?

These Fabian Socialist concepts brought to America in the late 1800's and written about in 1960 are ,as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright said, "Coming Home To Roost." I'm sure you all remember Reverend Wright who was the Obama's pastor for 20 years BUT NEVER said anything radical during that time period which was heard by either Barack or Michelle.

When I think of Jeremiah Wright and several others who were close to Barack and Michelle Obama, I can't help but think of a whole room full of mutts. Which brings us to:

VARMINTS:

"Fat Teddy"(Kennedy); "Fat Jack"(Murtha); Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Barney Frank; Chuck Schumer; Barbara Boxer; Diane Feinstein; Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii); John Kerry; "Mr. Toad"(Al Franken); Al Gore; Jimmy Carter; and now for three so called Republicans who should be booted out of the Republican Party; ARLEN SPECTER (R?-PA); OLYMPIA SNOWE (R?-ME); SUSAN COLLINS (R?-ME) and anyone in the state of Maine who votes these two sows back into office.

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, James & Pat Murphy, Tony Aguilar - HOBBS,NM; Ella Dunlop, Kitten Winthrope-SAN ANTONIO,TX; Susan O'Brien-VACAVILLE,CA; Arthur Baebel-HOUSTON,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan-ADA,OK; Meryl Coleman, Dan Higdon-FLORENCE,OR; Paul Gula-ORLANDO,FL; Bill Alderman-CELINA,TX; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, GySgt. James Walker, Cpl. Michael Rice, LtCol. James Moore, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, Sgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross - USMC; Jason Plilar,Kenneth Thomas-US COAST GUARD; Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Clair Vest, SSgt. Aaron Brown-USAF; Lt. William Jordan, LCDR Robert McLay-US NAVY; Midshipman Levi English-US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek-USA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory-DEA

QUOTES:

"Conservatives don't need to reinvent themselves. They need the courage to be once again what they were."........................... RUSH LIMBAUGH

"Much of the social history of the Western World over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.".......... THOMAS SOWELL

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - - but the harm does not interest them. Or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves" ..... T.S. ELLIOT

Just prior to shutting off our computer last Sunday evening, I sent out a notice to everyone that we would be out of town for several days. The only problem was, I thought the short message went out to everyone on my mailing list. I must have cut off my computer before the message was sent. So when we got back into San Angelo on Wednesday evening, I turned on our computer and saw that I was sending a message. Of course it was the message from Sunday evening so that is the reason that it was late reaching you all. And that was the reason that a whole bunch of stuff got kicked back as my box filled up pretty rapidly. I'll try to do better next time.

Anyway, we went to Victoria and visited some old friends from Houston. Two other families also came to Victoria and while the wives went on some type of shopping spree, us old school buddies played Boo-Ray until about midnight on Monday and started back up again shortly after breakfast on Tuesday and played until the afternoon. It reminded us all of our days together at Lamar High School in Houston and of some really good times. All in all, it was one of our most enjoyable trips. Old friends are hard to beat and they last forever. I consider myself a very fortunate person to have my family and my friends. I know that all of us who met in Victoria this week don't want to wait this long before getting together again. And the older we all get, the more we appreciate these gatherings.

Before I forget, I got an e-mail earlier today which gave a website where you can go and e-mail or fax your State Governor and your U.S. Senators and Congressman. Here it is:

www.conservativeusa.org

I don't know about the rest of you but I believe I can keep this place busy. And we all need to. Don't be satisfied with just writing your own Senators and Reps. I believe I have a few things that I would like to pass on the the three Republican VARMINTS.

MISCELLANEOUS:

Reflecting back for a moment on the quote this week from T.S. Elliot. I have to disagree to the extent that I believe that some of these people actually do mean to do harm. Most of them however, I believe have been in the public light for so long and have had their backsides kissed for so long and have been given special recognition and special treatment for so long that the not only like it but have come to expect it. We need to boot their sorry butts back into private life and let them get a taste of that for awhile. We are looking at having a President who was obviously the media darling and a man for whom the media mutts were in the tank, with few exceptions.

I remember during the very first campaign run by George W. Bush against Al Gore. At one of those events, the microphone was left on and picked up Dick Cheney making this statement about a certain reporter: "He's a major ass hole". To which George Bush replied "Big time". From that moment on, most of the mainstream media was out to do everything within their power to do a character assassination on George Bush and Dick Cheney. This has lasted for eight years and it is STILL GOING ON. The media is prone to overlooking and covering for Barack Obama. So within the next four years the Republican Party had better get off their dead backsides and get back to the concepts which gave us a Republican President and Republican controlled Senate and House.

Anyway I guess I'd better get down the road. I have a PETA meeting to attend this evening. That is People Eating Tasty Animals.

Later

JEM

Wednesday - February 4, 2009

A big West Texas welcome from the Central Time Zone Headquarters For Jingoistic Right Wing Smear Merchants.

SUPER BOWL:

Well I for one enjoyed the Super Bowl. It was a really interesting game and exciting all the way to the end. Both teams exhibited the traits which showed why they both deserved to be there. Actually, not really having a dog in the fight, I was able to watch the entire game without feeling any pressure. The final results pretty well proved the old saying: "Offense wins games, defense wins championships." Although both teams exhibited very good offenses, the Pittsburgh Steelers obviously had the tougher all around defense.

OK. You know what I enjoyed about the game, now for some of the things which I did NOT enjoy. And I am sure that you all already know that I did not enjoy the rendition of our National Anthem. Once again some singer felt it necessary to make the song more about her singing voice and range than she did about singing the song in a manner which honored our country and our men and women who have fought and died for our freedoms.

And I am sure that it will come as no surprise to you that I found the half-time entertainment seriously lacking. Of course this might be due to the fact that I find "The Boss", Bruce Springsteen to be a bit of an ass and while I did not intentionally watch the half-time show, I did switch back a few times to see if perhaps the network would be so crass as to interrupt "The Boss" with a commercial break. Of course they did not. And we did have a few moments where some of the NBC staff had to waste our time by telling us what we had just observed.

And why is the entire day prior to the actual game taken up by several channels giving us the Pre-Game Shows. Many had to endure about seven and one half hours of pre-game hoopla.

Now for the commercials. The Budweiser commercials with the Clydesdales were all very good. The Go-Daddy.Com commercials I found to be almost as entertaining as the National Anthem as sung by that Hudson broad. Not many of the commercials outside of the Clydesdales showed me much of anything. I am proud to say that I did not watch one single Post-Game show.

Another area which I believe the NFL and for that matter the NCAA needs to address are the obligatory divas on the sidelines conducting idiotic interviews. OK. Now here is the scene:

Arizona is on the Pittsburgh two yard line with about fifteen seconds left in the half. They are in a position to either go ahead or at least kick a field goal and be tied with Pittsburgh going in at half time. Arizona quarterback Curt Warner mis-reads the defense and throws a pass which was intercepted by Pittsburgh and returned one hundred yards for a touchdown giving Pittsburgh a ten point lead.

The teams leave the field and Andrea Kramer stops the Arizona coach and asks him what went wrong with the play which gave Pittsburgh an extended lead? You could tell by the look on that coach's face that he really didn't have time to dally around answering stupid questions and gave her a pretty short answer before going into the dressing room. Then prior to the second half, Andrea felt duty bound to tell the broadcast crew that the Arizona coach had been rather curt with her. Curt? This heifer obviously does not have a clue about what is and what isn't curt. My point is though, these sideline heifers need to be OFF THE FIELD and no one, male or female should be bothering those coaches or players either at the beginning or at the end of the half. It is stupid and adds nothing to the game. The NFL and the NCAA need to put a stop to it TODAY!

STIMULUS:

We have all been hearing and reading about the Stimulus Package which was passed by the House of Representatives. It is my understanding that this package pretty well had the approval of the world's most intelligent and articulate human. I believe the last figure I heard was that this package ended up with a total value of $819 Billion dollars. Let's look at just a few of the hand outs of our tax dollars:

$1 Billion for Amtrak, which has not earned a profit in four decades.

$2 Billion to help subsidize child care.

$650 Million for coupons to help consumers convert their TV sets from analog to digital.

$75 Million to fund programs to help people quit smoking*

* I smoked for a number of years. I stopped smoking several times and went right back. Then when I finally decided on my own that I wanted to stop smoking, I stopped without any federal funding. It is called will power and I'll be damned if I agree to funding programs to assist people do something which they can do on their own IF THEY REALLY WANT TO.

$21 Million to re-sod the National Mall, which suffered heavy use during the inauguration.

$20 Billion over five years for an expanded food stamp program.

These are just some of the earmarks in this horse crap bill.

The House version of this bill was passed, pretty much along party lines. Now the legislation goes to the Senate.

I just heard a few minutes ago that the Senate has put their clutches on the bill and it is NOW over $900 Billion dollars. Way to go Senate.

APPOINTMENTS:

It appears as if the world's most intelligent and articulate human has a bit of a problem in judging the character of some of his appointees. It seems as if three of them pulled out on their own prior to hearings. Own their own my backside. I am speaking of New Mexico Governor, Bill Richardson who pulled out several weeks back due to his being under investigation regarding some campaign contributors and state contracts.

Then within the past twenty four hours, former Senator Tom Daschle pulled out, allegedly own his own, from being considered for an appointment as Health and Human Services Director. Also within the past twenty four hours perspective appointee for the position of "Chief Performance Officer" has also withdrawn due to some type of payroll tax questions for two Nannies for her two teen age children. What does a Chief Performance Officer do, you ask?

I am not entirely sure but it sounds awfully like a Personnel Director or what a few years back was called a Personnel Director. I have watched the gradual power gained from when the person in charge of personnel with a government was called the Personnel Officer. Then that changed to Personnel Director. Then a few years passed and the title changed to "Director of Human Resources". Or as it is named in the comic strip "Dilbert" by Scott Adams, "Catbert, Evil Director of Human Resources". If you have ever worked for a government entity you would appreciate the subtleties of Mr. Adams regarding modern businesses. All of the characters are generally either the boss (not Springsteen), management or engineers who are all human. Then you have the consultant who is a dog (Dogbert) and the rat (Ratbert) on whom all the new stuff is tested but only Catbert has the title of Evil Director of Human Resources. Many of us who worked for the City of Hobbs during a certain time period know exactly what Adams means when he uses "Evil Director of Human Resources."

NEWS REPORTER:

Last week I was watching a piece on FOX News channel and observed an interview with White House News Correspondent, Helen Thomas. I know you have all seen this old squack at the White House Press Conferences. She is always on the front row. She is well on up in years and has a face which would stop your watch. Anyway, this interview was regarding liberal bias in the media. Now Helen said that she had been doing the news for something like 30 or 40 years and had NEVER seen any media bias toward the left. She admitted being a liberal herself but had never really seen any liberal bias by media personnel. Now this told me a couple of things about her. First, Helen has a face which would make a freight train take off on a dirt road. Second, she must have the IQ of mildew. The liberal media is in my opinion the main group who is responsible for the election of Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States. What do you suppose would be the position of the far left media should President George Bush have attempted to make an appointment of anyone with the obvious honesty problems of some of the Obama appointees? Believe me when I tell you that I had some major problems with a couple of Bush appointees.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:

My wife was born in the small Central Texas town of Bremond. This small town has a weekly newspaper called the Bremond Press. We have taken it for years and you can read about all the local goings on as well as reports on their high school sports teams. We look forward to receiving the paper. During this past campaign season, it was also pretty obvious that the management of the paper were pretty well in the tank for Obama. For several weeks including the last week's edition contained a photo of someone wearing either an Obama T-Shirt or an Obama Cap. But what really got my attention in this edition was a photograph of a new city employee. This employee has a position which collects payments for various city services. BUT, the newspaper also felt duty bound to let the reading public know that his new city employee was the FIRST Native American to work for the city. Now this small town has a population of less than 900 people. So the fact that this new city employee was a Native American was probably not a pivotal moment in the lives of most of the other residents of that community. Anyway, I've got news for everyone. I am a native American. Let's look at this term:

native : - belonging to a locality or country by birth: being or connected with the place of one's birth: as found in nature: a person born in the place indicated: an original inhabitant; an indigenous plant or animal.

Native-American: - American Indian, now often the preferred term.

OK. Preferred By Whom????

In school when we studied a certain part of the history of this country I remember reading about "The French and Indian Wars". Not the French and Native-American Wars. And I believe that our own federal government still has an organization called the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

According to these definitions, if you were born here in the United States of America you are a native American. So according to the dictionary the term Native-American is just a politically correct term meant to pacify liberals/socialists.

Under any circumstances, pointing out this fact was completely unnecessary and pretty insulting to our intelligence when you really look at it.

FLDS:

Over the past year or so there has been an investigation and some grand jury indictments regarding some of the members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). If you remember correctly in about 2003 the national head of that organization was arrested and later tried and is serving time in the penitentiary as we speak. At the present time there is a hearing taking place here in San Angelo. The FLDS compound is located in El Dorado,Texas which is South of San Angelo. Last week the head of this compound and his son were both subpoenaed into court for this hearing. Now these next figures should perhaps give you a little insight into whether or not these two are involved in some illegal activities. On Thursday, January 29th, Merril Jessop invoked the 5th Amendment 267 times during his testimony. Then the next day, William R. "Willie" Jessop invoked the 5th Amendment 110 times during his testimony. Now for those of you who reside in the "People's Republic of San Francisco" perhaps you should consult a copy of the United States Constitution to find out what the Fifth Amendment is. That is if you can locate one in San Francisco.

TRILLION:

When they tell us that this Stimulus Package will end up costing over a Trillion Dollars, I sometimes wonder if people really have any idea about how much One Trillion Dollars is. Here is what it looks like written out: $1,000,000,000.000.00 That is one followed by TWELVE ZEROS. I was watching the Mike Huckabee Show last week end and Mr. Huckabee asked audience members this questions: How much of the Microsoft Company would $1 Trillion dollars buy. They answered that is was something like 10%. Same question regarding what percentage of GOOGLE would the trillion purchase and they came up with another small percentage. Same answers for Wal-Mart, Coca Cola Inc. and PepsiCo. Then Mike Huckabee gave them the correct answer. $1 Trillion Dollars could purchase: Microsoft, GOOGLE, Wal-Mart, Coca Cola Inc., and PepsiCo IN THEIR ENTIRETY and there would be $23 Billion dollars left over. So when these politicians start throwing around these billion and trillion dollar figures we need to be very suspicious and wonder if those idiots realize just exactly how much of our money they are willing to give away.

SOCIALISM:

I was listening to Mark Steyn who is from Great Britain and is rather familiar with their socialized health care system as well as the socialized health care systems predominant in Europe. He said that first of all they feed it to you in small increments and the more you get, the less your expectations become. He said that when you go to a hospital for emergency treatment and you are expecting a 48 hour wait and the waiting time is only 18 hours, you are satisfied and settle for less. When you look at it, this can be said about every aspect of socialism.

MISCELLANEOUS:

Here is a news item I heard on one of the morning newscasts. Tanzania has recently passed a law which prohibits the killing of albinos. It seems as if albino children are valued as a producer of body parts which are used by the witch doctors in some of their treatments. The report said that at the present time there were around 90 individuals who were awaiting trials for murdering albinos for body parts. This included members of their police force and military. Sure makes you feel like they have made great strides since their colonial days.

Wonder how the CEOs of some of the companies who have received government bail out money feel about the President of the United States telling them that they now have a salary cap? Now while I admit that I believe that the salaries and other compensation of many of these company executives is way out of proportion to everything else, the thought of our government having any say in these matters is steering us ever closer to pure socialism and nationalization of private industry. Thanks a bunch Uncle Nanny.

Within the past two days I have heard Texas Republican Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Maine Republican Senator, Olympia Snowe singing the praises of Tom Daschle. I even caught the tail end of Arizona Republican Senator, John McCain speaking about his friendship with Daschle. Does the term RINO ring a bell?

Which brings me to the next segment.

VARMINTS:

"Fat Teddy" Kennedy; "Fat Jack" Murtha; "Bucket Head" Kerry; Chuck Schumer; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Dick Durbin; Maxine Waters; Barbara Boxer; Diane Feinstein; George Soros; "Mr Toad"Al Franken

QUOTES:

"The ultimate authority resides in the people alone.....The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of every other nation......Forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition."................... JAMES MADISON -1787

"This administration and Congress are now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s -------- use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations."............... DR. THOMAS SOWELL

"When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country."...................... ANDREW JOHNSON

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, James & Pat Murphy, Tony Aguilar - HOBBS,NM; Ella Dunlop, Kitten Winthrope-SAN ANTONIO,TX; Susan O'Brien-VACAVILLE,CA; Arthur Baebel-HOUSTON,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan-ADA,OK; Meryl Coleman, Dan Higdon-FLORENCE,OR; Paul Gula-ORLANDO,FL; Bill Alderman-CELINA,TX; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, GySgt. James Walker, Cpl. Michael Rice, LtCol. James Moore, Brandon Robinson, Sgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross - USMC; Jason Plilar,Kenneth Thomas-US COAST GUARD; Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Clair Vest, SSgt. Aaron Brown-USAF; Lt. William Jordan, LCDR Robert McLay-US NAVY; Midshipman Levi English-US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek-USA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory-DEA

As you see in our prayer list is the name of a young Midshipman at the United States Naval Academy. His name is Levi English. He is the oldest son of some good friends who reside in Ozona, Texas which is about 75 miles Southwest of San Angelo. Several of us got word from Levi's Dad, Ben English, that his youngest son Ethan English, a senior at Ozona High School had also received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy. I would like to add that these two young men are two of the nicest young gentlemen I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. I am so proud of both of them for receiving the honor of being appointed to the Naval Academy. I can only imagine how proud his parents and family must be. Congratulations to the English family.

Well I guess I'd better be off and running. I have been attempting to find some variety/talk show somewhere on the planet which DOES NOT have Rod Blagojevich as a guest. This might be an impossible task as "Blago" is making every attempt to prove to America just what an honest person he really is. Let's see now. Ol' Blago appears to have all the humility of an NFL Wide Receiver and appears to be as truthful as a Kennedy. Other than that and the fact that he is a part of a totally corrupt Illinois political machine, I can find nothing wrong with him.

Later

JEM

Wednesday - January 28, 2009

Greetings once again from the West Texas Association For Jingoistic Gun Clingers With Mob Mentality.** (The Mob Mentality is evidently how conservatives are viewed by Tom Brokaw)

PRIORITIES:

Anyway, we are now in our eighth day of the ObamaLand tour. ObamaLand is almost identical to PelosiLand and ReidsVille. I could not help but notice that the new President of the United States must have a bit of a problem with his priorities. What makes me say this is that I could not help but take notice of the absence of the new President and the First Lady at one of the inaugural balls. That would be The Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball which was begun in 1953 for President Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration. The event recognized recipients of the Medal of Honor. There were 48 Medal of Honor recipients in attendance, who were undoubtedly disappointed by the Commander-In-Chief's failure to show. In the past 56 years and 14 inaugurations, no President has skipped this event - UNTIL NOW. This event is sponsored by the American Legion, and co-sponsored by 13 other veteran's service organizations, including the Paralyzed Veterans of America and the Military Order of the Purple Heart.

So what did he attend instead, you ask? He chose rather to hang with Stevie Wonder, Shakira, Mary J. Blige, Faith Hill, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Adam Levine, will.i.am, Sting, Mariah Carey, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Also on his choice were balls which had in attendance, Kanye West, Kid Rock, Marc Anthony, and Cheryl Crow. In other words he chose to skip the event without all of the "Name Celebrities". Well I have a bit of news for the world's most intelligent and articulate human (The President). I think you have insulted all branches of our military, past and present, along with their families. I cannot understand anyone, let alone the President of the United States who would pass up an opportunity to meet these wonderful people who have given so much for our country.

GUN CONTROL:

We had all better be prepared for the Obama Administration to make a run at firearms control and individual licensing. Keep in mind that President Barack Hussein Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden, Attorney General Appointee Eric Holder, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have never met a piece of gun control legislation which they were not in love with. I am sure that almost all of you have received various e-mails regarding the Ammunition Accountability Act along with H.R. 45 which is being pushed by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill), H,R. 45 contains provisions that all handgun owners submit to the federal government a photo, thumb print AND MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS. Further this bill would order the Attorney General to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer and owner's address in America. It would additionally require completion of a written firearm safety test and of course a fee. Further, the bill makes it illegal to transfer ownership of any qualifying firearm to ANYONE who is not a licensed gun dealer or collector.

Everyone needs to write, telephone, send smoke signals, drumbeats or any other means known,to their Senators and Congressman to urge them to NOT SUPPORT any legislation which by any stretch of the imagination could be viewed as firearms control legislation. I've already done mine.

MORE PRIORITIES:

Now as you already know, I have absolutely NO USE for the following news TV networks:

NBC

CNBC

MSNBC

CNN (I and II)

CBS

ABC

PBS

I can tolerate FOX News most of the time.

So which one of these networks did President Barack Hussein Obama choose for his FIRST TV Interview after being elected? GIve up? Well the correct answer is None Of The Above.

Nope,the new President of the United chose Al Arabiya News Channel. Al Arabiya, you ask? Why that sounds like some Middle Eastern controlled Muslim channel. Well you would be right on all counts. I guess when push comes to shove, Al Arabiya probably is more truthful than the above mentioned networks other than FOX News. At least they don't have Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman slobbering all over themselves. I actually had more respect for "Baghdad Bob" who was the Iraqi News Minister during the beginning of the Iraq War.

During this interview here is one of the little snippets from the mouth of the world's most articulate and intelligent human:

"And my job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives". Did the world's most articulate and intelligent human perhaps leave something out? Perhaps he might have left out the part about the Muslims who want ALL Jews and everyone else who is non-Muslim dead.

Perhaps he also might have forgotten the part of his job that has to do with "Protecting" and "Preserving" and "Defending" the Constitution of the United States. Oh, but I almost forgot. President Obama made the statement that our Constitution had "Deep Flaws". That our Constitution reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues today.

He went on to tell the Muslim World about a draw down of troops in Iraq and closing Guantanamo and that while we were going to pursue terrorist organizations that it would be done respecting the rule of law. Now I don't know about the rest of you, but an Illinois politician harping about the "Rule of Law" strikes me as a bit bizarre.

And speaking of MSNBC, if I were to suddenly be in a position of power in that dippy network, Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews would BOTH have the life expectancy of a male praying mantis on his wedding night. (Now for those of you residing in the Freedom Loving Workers Province of Austin perhaps I'd better explain. You see, immediately after the male praying mantis fertilizes the female, she bites off his head and eats him for protein, so you see immediately after mating the male is toast.)

RINO:

Now for those of you who reside in the "People's Republic of San Francisco" RINO is an acronym. Now once again for you residents of PelosiLand, an acronym according to Webster is:

"A word formed from the first or first few letters of several words."

Thus the words Republican In Name Only, would create the acronym of RINO.

I am pretty sure that many of you already know a few of those people who belong to the Republican party but subscribe to very few Republican views. Of course in the past you have known that: Voinovich (R-OH), Snowe (R-ME), Hagel (R-NE) and Lugar (R-IN). But here in the first week of the Obama Presidency, and I must say that it came as no surprise to me, but three more Republican Senators began to kiss up to Obama and began to urge everyone to participate in bi-partisan behavior and "Unite" behind President Obama. Of course I am speaking of Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and neither of them came as much of a surprise. I am basing that from a couple of years back and their views on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation which was co-sponsored by John McCain and "Fat Teddy". But this past week I was a bit surprised that they were joined by a Senator whom I had always thought was pretty conservative all the way through. I am speaking of Senator Orin Hatch (R-UT). I was pretty disappointed in his efforts to get everyone to play nice with the new regime. How about sticking to your guns and doing what is right?

And before the liberals/socialists get bent out of shape I am pretty much of the same views as expressed by Rush Limbaugh. And that is this:

If President Obama wants to pursue policies which will make our country less safe, head down the path toward socialism, erode our Constitutional rights and pursue programs which have never worked, are not working now, and never will work, and in general make our country weaker, then I hope Obama fails.

I don't give the first damn about bi-partisanship nor do I really have any feelings of guilt for being the strongest country on the planet. If Obama and the rest of the liberals want to feel guilty then have at it. But I hope that President Obama remembers one thing. He was elected President of the United States and not some global President.

I would like to see us get along with other countries but not at the expense of our sovereignty.

MISCELLANEOUS:

President Obama was upset with Merrill Lynch for allegedly spending $1.5 million in TARP for re-modeling of executive suites. But the money they used was not TARP money. Now, which decorator is Barack Hussein and Michelle Obama using to re-decorate the White House? The same firm which did the work for Merrill Lynch.

I imagine that most of us have seen the video of the House of Representatives hearing testimony on the solvency of FreddieMac and FannieMae. It was fairly obvious to me that the Republican Representatives knew back then that there was something wrong with the way those to companies were conducting business. The people in charge of the oversight were certainly trying to tell Congress that FreddieMac and FannieMae were "Cookin' The Books". But, Congress Varmints Maxine Waters (D-CA), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Lacy Clay (D-MO), Arthur Davis (D-AL) and of course Barney Frank (D-MA) were incensed that these investigators could even suggest such a thing. They knew nothing and these Congress Mutts knew everything. Only problem is, they were WRONG. I absolutely could not believe how those elected officials talked down to the people who were trying to tell them that there were big problems. I would have been pretty hard pressed not to have cornered Congressman Gregory Meeks during a break and slapped him into another time zone. Of course you would have had to be a little more gentle with Barney Frank. I don't think he could take a serious ass whipping.

I got an e-mail a couple of days back which was a notification of the death of Col James E. Swett - USMC. Col Swett was a pilot during WW II and was awarded the Medal of Honor. I had seen a program on the History Channel on Medal of Honor recipients and Col. Swett's story was one they covered. If I remember correctly, in his first air combat, he shot down 7 Japanese aircraft. According to the program after shooting down his last one, his aircraft was also damaged and he had to ditch in the ocean. He was picked up by a Naval vessel. All in all a really great story. Col. Swett was in his 80's when he passed away.

Earlier this week I was listening to a blurb on one of the sports radio shows and they were talking about the Presidential exercise programs. They brought out the fact that Clinton was a jogger; President Bush rode mountain bikes; but Barack Obama was a basketball player. He summed it up by saying, "It's good to see that President Obama plays 'A Game of the People'. It's nice to know that we have a President who will sacrifice his body to go after a loose ball." I don't know about the rest of you but I am not nearly as interested in a President who will go after a loose ball as much as I am one who will stand up to Russia, China, Iran, and the other nations who do not have our best interests at heart. The people did not elect a "Point-Guard-In-Chief".

Last year I wrote several pieces about the NAFTA SuperHiway and the TransTexas Corridor which was actually the first leg of the NAFTA SuperHiway. This was to be a toll road which ran for the West Coast of Mexico, through Texas and eventually into Canada. It was to be 1200 feet in width and also have a rail system run parallel to the highway. It was also to be financed by European money. Last Thursday I attended a luncheon in which the chairman of the Tom Green County Republican Party and many elected Republican County and State officials were present. During the question and answer session a lady asked about the present progress of the TransTexas Corridor. I don't recall which one of the officials answered the question but we were told that the construction was on hold and the width of the corridor had been cut in half and was now 600 feet in width. Now here is the good part. Nobody calls it the TransTexas Corridor or the NAFTA SuperHiway anymore. It is now called "Inter Native Connectivity". So I guess that all you need to do is a name change and everything will be OK.

I was listening to one of the daytime talk radio shows and they played an audio clip of some black politician who made the statement that Obama's election did not mean an end to racism but it did make America a little less racist. He went on to say that it was a Down Payment. A down payment? OK. Now tell us the interest rates and what will our monthly or annual payments be?

I was watching an interview with Neil Cavuto a couple of days back and I have come to pretty well respect many of his views on financial matters. Anyway he made a statement regarding the "Great Depression" of the 1930's. You remember, the one that the liberals/socialists tell us was ended by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal". Neil Cavuto said that was a bunch of bunk that World War Two was the main reason our country came out of the depression. He went on to say that the only two ways to end a recession or a depression were War and Tax Cuts. I have heard many economists say that you cannot tax or spend or borrow your way out of debt or a depression.

TURDS OF THE WEEK:

"Fat Teddy"(Kennedy); "Fat Jack"(Murtha); "Fat Head" (Kerry); "Mr. Incompetence" (Harry Reid); "Mrs. Incompetence" (Nancy Pelosi); "Mr. Stupidity" (Rod Blagojevich); Barney Frank; Maxine Waters; Barbara Boxer; Diane Feinstein; "Mr. Toad" (Al Franken); AlGore,

QUOTES:

"He is indeed the first African American President----------------------By the time there was a United states of America, most black Americans had never seen Africa and neither had their grandparents. There is no group less eligible to be called hyphenated Americans. Nevertheless, Obama is one of them, and race is part of the symbolism of this moment.--------- No doubt the race-hustling industry will continue, and no doubt their chief victims will be blacks, especially young blacks, who buy the paralyzing picture of victimhood and the counterproductive resentments that sap energies that could be better used to improve their own lives.".................... DR. THOMAS SOWELL

"The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution."......................

........................... THEODORE ROOSEVELT

"America was not built on fear, America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."................... HARRY S. TRUMAN

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." .......................................... SECOND AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, James & Pat Murphy, Tony Aguilar - HOBBS,NM; Ella Dunlop, Kitten Winthrope-SAN ANTONIO,TX; Susan O'Brien-VACAVILLE,CA; Arthur Baebel-HOUSTON,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan-ADA,OK; Meryl Coleman, Dan Higdon-FLORENCE,OR; Paul Gula-ORLANDO,FL; Bill Alderman-CELINA,TX; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, GySgt. James Walker, Cpl. Michael Rice, LtCol. James Moore, Brandon Robinson, Sgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross - USMC; Jason Plilar,Kenneth Thomas-US COAST GUARD; Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Clair Vest, SSgt. Aaron Brown-USAF; Lt. William Jordan, LCDR Robert McLay-US NAVY; Midshipman Levi English-US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek-USA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory-DEA

Last week I prescribed several steps and activities which could combat Campaign Fatigueulitus. Well I was able to catch "Outlaw Josey Wales" on television. One of my all time favorite Western movies. Then the next day my wife and I went to the theater and saw "Gran Torino" which is Mr. Eastwood's latest movie. I thoroughly enjoyed that movie also. and my Campaign Fatigueulitus disappeared.

See ya' next week.

JEM

Wednesday - January 14, 2009

Hello once again from The West Texas Headquarters Of Ammunition Hoarding Jingoistic Gun Clingers.

Let me begin by telling you that I have not been kidding regarding purchasing ammunition before the prices go up to the point of it being un-affordable. A couple of days ago I went to our local Wal-Mart Super Center. I have been purchasing ammunition there for the past 5 years. Imagine my surprise when I went to the sporting goods section to purchase a couple of boxes of .22 stingers and one of those 500 round bricks of .22 long rifle ammunition for my two youngest grandsons, only to find out that they had not one single round of .22 long rifle or .22 magnum ammunition in the store. I noticed that in their section which handled handgun ammunition they had one box of .32 automatic ammunition. The were completely sold out of .380, 9mm, .38 special, .357 magnum, .40 caliber, and .45 automatic ammunition. Nor did they have any .44 magnum or .45 long colt. That box of .32 automatic was the ONLY handgun ammunition.

Nor did they have any 30-06, .308, 30-30, .223, .243, or .280 ammunition for rifles. They were completely sold out of all of the rifle magnum rounds. I asked the clerk if they were going to get any more ammunition in at any time soon and he said that he hoped so but that their warehouse was also out of ammunition. They only had bird shot in the .12 and .20 gauges for shotguns.

Just for the heck of it I checked at another local gun shop and they had quite a bit of ammunition on hand but the guy there told me that the .500 round bricks of Federal .22 long rifle ammunitions had just gone up in price from about $12 to almost $20.

So my point is this. If you find ammunition for any of your firearms, you had better jump on it quick before it is gone and the Obama administration gets some idiotic legislation passed which will either drive the price of ammunition up to the point of un-affordability or drive some of the ammunition manufacturers out of business with stupid regulations.

HATE CRIMES:

I don't know whether or not you live in an area which has "Hate Crime" legislation already passed. Now this is one of those things which might sound all right but when you really examine this type of legislation, you will find that it is the first step in the formation of the "Thought Police". I know prior to leaving the State of New Mexico our state mandated crime reporting form had a section in which the investigating officer had to check a box to determine whether or not a particular act was a "Hate Crime". It got me to wondering that if in fact there were such a thing as a "Hate Crime" then conversely there should also be a category of criminal acts which would be classified as "Love Crimes" or perhaps "Love Behavior". But then if they did that, why stop there? Why not have a couple of categories entitled:

"Upset But Not Really Mad" crimes.

"Fairly Pissed Off But Not Angry" crimes.

"Pretty Well Mad" crimes.

Actually the whole point of all this idiotic "Hate Crime" legislation was to make sure that if the victim were members of ANY group which could be called a "Minority" that doing something to them was worse than if the same act were perpetrated on you or your family.

I can't remember when all this "Hate Crime" crap started but I can sure tell you that it has gone way further than necessary. I do know this for sure though. A murder victim is dead regardless of their race, religion,height, weight,hair color, ethnic background, sexual preference, or sex. And I thought it was fairly inane to expect an investigating officer to make a call as to the thoughts of the perpetrator. I also always wondered what would happen if the murder victim, right before death, uttered the words, "I HATE YOU" to the perpetrator? Then we would need another whole category called "Reverse Hate Crimes".

Now to show you just how idiotic all of this can be, I was listening to a news program the other morning and it was reported that in jolly old England one group of liberal idiots were attempting to get the lyrics to the song "The Hokey Pokey" classified as "Hate Speech". Now with Great Britain becoming as socialist as they are, this does not surprise me in the least. But,"The Hokey Pokey"? (Oh, before I forget, for those of you residing in the 'People's Republic Of San Francisco', the lyrics to a song are the words."

INFLATION:

With all of the financial problems occurring in our country from real estate foreclosures, stock market crashes, federal bail outs of the auto industry, federal bail outs of banks and lending institutions, I read an article in yesterday's (Sub) Standard Times about some real inflation elsewhere. In Zimbabwe, their wonderful government is now printing a $50 BILLION note. I have never heard of any denomination of currency this large. But this $50 billion note is actually worth $1.25 U.S. Currency. (For those of you living in the Freedom Loving Worker's Province of Massachusetts that is One Dollar and Twenty Five Cents)

I am sure that many of you remember that the present country of Zimbabwe had been called Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia at various points in time when it was a British Colony up until 1965 when the country declared its independence fro Great Britain but returned to Colonial status briefly in 1979 up until control was turned over to the majority in 1980 and re-named Zimbabwe. Much of what was Zimbabwe was under the control of several primitive African tribes until the Matabele under their founder and King Mzilikazi invaded the area from South Africa. The Matabele under this king were break aways from the Zulu nation under their founder and King, Shaka. Mzilikazi had been a general under Shaka. The Matabele were as warlike and well trained as the Zulus and it did not take long for them to conquer the other tribes, principle among which were the Mashona people.

And of course the politically correct historians don't want us civilized people to know that the Matabele enslaved all of the other tribes. The only reason they were allowed to live was to do the labor for the war-like Matabele. I read one account of an encounter between a British envoy and a Matabele King. The King was asked about who did all of the manual labor insofar as tending the crops and doing all of the heavy lifting so to speak and the Matabele King's answer was this: "Why do you think we allow these Shona Monkeys to live? They do that work." So as you can see, Africa knew slavery long before the white men took power.

And basically things haven't gotten much better in Zimbabwe under the present rule of Robert Mugabe. There has been ethnic cleansing and of course the present government has taken over EVERYTHING of value in that country. They seized property of people, both black and white, whose ancestors were born in Rhodesia before Robert Mugabe was born.

So evidently the general population was better off under British Colonial rule than they are at the present under the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe. At least their $59 Billion note would purchase more than a cup of coffee at the Target Store. Hey! What about a Federal Bailout?

MGM:

Yesterday I was watching the second of a three part series on the Metro-Goldwin-Mayer movie studios. In looking at the movie industry today it is amazing how much things and people have changed. Back during the 1930's and 1940's, MGM studios had most of your really top name entertainers. They showed a film at some gathering, I believe it was on Louis B. Mayer's birthday. Just some of the famous actors at this gathering were: Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Robert Taylor, David Niven, Mickey Rooney, William Powell, Errol Flynn. Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Spencer Tracy, Ray Bolger, Hedy Lamarr, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Kathryn Hepburn, Vivian Leigh, Greer Garson, and the list goes on.

Incidentally, Hedy Lamarr was probably the most beautiful woman who ever lived. Besides being beautiful, she was also very intelligent. In the early 1940's, Hedy Lamarr and a man named George Antheil invented a radio control guidance system for torpedoes which was well ahead of its time. She also assisted in developing some type of advanced communications system. She actually toyed with the idea of quitting the movies and devoting full time into developing inventions.

Of course when World War II broke out, unlike today's so called stars, the movie greats began to volunteer. Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Robert Taylor and many others volunteered and were inducted into various branches of the U.S. Military. David Niven was a British Commando in WW II. Several others including Errol Flynn attempted to enlist but could not pass the physical. Lana Turner, Bette Davis, Hedy Lamarr and many other actresses did work for the USO. And of course we all know about Bob Hope and the work that he has done. A far cry from these overpaid mutts who call themselves "Stars" in today's industry.

Part three will be on this evening and I am not going to miss it.

MISCELLANEOUS:

OK. Here is a little something for the liberals/socialists to think about. Please tell me how much "Gun Control" has helped the State of California. I heard these figures from a FOX News program. In Oakland, California the Murder Rate is 5.7 TIMES higher than the national average. The Robbery Rate is 5.9 TIMES higher than the national average. The rate of Rape is 2.5 TIMES higher than the national average. Yes sir. Gun control works. BUT it only works in favor of the criminals.

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon was indicted for accepting illegal gifts while in office and using Gift Cards intended for use by the poor to purchase things for herself. Hey! Doesn't she realize that she lives in BALTIMORE,MARYLAND? Where does she think she is? CHICAGO?

Earlier in the week there was a video of Britain's Prince Harry, who is presently serving in the British Military, I believe in Afghanistan. In this film which was taken, evidently in a combat area, showed Prince Harry making a statement and using the term "Raghead". This evidently insulted some idiotic member of the media and they made the film public. It was shown on FOX News during an interview with Monica Crowley and some other diva. Anyway the other girl was shocked that Prince Harry used this term and thought he should be stripped of his title, I suppose. BUT Monica Crowley said that she was tired of the "Feminization" of our fighting forces and said that she had much rather they all talked like General Patton. I didn't see anything about what the British press thought about it. Probably thought it should be a "Hate Crime". Anyway, I do like Monica Crowley. She is very conservative. Very pretty. But she has a complete varmint for a brother-in-law. Alan Colmes is married to her sister.

Earlier today I went into a local book store. Also while at the Wal-Mart store the other day, I checked in the book section. I have never seen so many books with Barack Hussein Obama's picture on the cover. They must have been lying in the wings just waiting for him to be elected so they could bombard us with all of these books about the chosen one.

VARMINTS:

"Fat Teddy" (Senator Edward Kennedy); "Fat Albert" (AlGore); "Ol Bug Eyes"(Nancy Pelosi); Harry Reid; Rahm Emanuel; Barney Frank; Chris Dodd; Dick Durbin; Al Franken AND Every Single Person In Minnesota Who Voted For This Turd

QUOTES:

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of LIBERALISM, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing what happened. I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has ADOPTED OUR PLATFORM.".........................................................

........... NORMAN M. THOMAS - 1944***

***Norman Mattoon Thomas (11/20/1884 - 12/19/1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America***

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."........................

......................... MARGARET THATCHER

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."............... THOMAS JEFFERSON

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, James & Pat Murphy-HOBBS,NM; Ella Dunlop, Kitten Winthrope-SAN ANTONIO,TX; Susan O'Brien-VACAVILLE,CA; Arthur Baebel-HOUSTON,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan-ADA,OK; Meryl Coleman, Dan Higdon-FLORENCE,OR; Paul Gula-ORLANDO,FL; Bill Alderman-CELINA,TX; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, GySgt. James Walker, Cpl. Michael Rice, LtCol. James Moore, Brandon Robinson, Sgt. Eric Harmon-USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas-US COAST GUARD; Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Clair Vest. SSgt. Aaron Brown-USAF; LCDR Robert McLay-US NAVY; Midshipman Levi English-US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek-USA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory DEA

I was listening to a news report the other day from Washington, D.C. and they were saying that they expected over one million people to attend the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama. So being the good American that I am, I cancelled my plans to attend this auspicious event thereby cutting back the work of the D.C. police. I hope I can count on most of you to cancel your plans as I know that each and every one of you were every bit as interested in attending as was I.

So instead of attending the inauguration I guess I will continue my ammunition search.

Later

JEM

Wednesday - January 7, 2009

Happy New Year and greetings from The New And Improved Association Of Jingoistic Gun Clinging Ammunition Hoarding Conspirators.

CIA:

Well all the talk over the past couple of days has been over the appointment of Leon Panetta as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Needless to say that I do not believe this to be an appointment which will be in the best interests of our nation. I do not believe that during a time when we have troops fighting terror abroad and local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies fighting terror at home, is a very good time to experiment with someone with absolutely no intelligence background or training to head this important agency. I guess we should all be thankful though that Barack Obama didn't appoint Valerie Plame or her idiot husband to head the agency.

This appointment should really not come as a complete surprise as it was made by a President Elect who himself is dangerously inexperienced. Perhaps though we can understand why the appointment was made. As already stated, Barack Obama himself has no experience in this field. So while you or I might want to appoint the most experienced person we could to head the CIA, this is simply not the democrat/socialist way. Secondly, Leon Panetta has shown during his past position as White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton that he is completely loyal to the socialist who appoints him to any position. And when you look at it, Barack Obama made a smarter choice than did President Bush when he left George Tenet as head of the CIA. If you will all remember, George Tenet was appointed by that fierce warrior, Bill Clinton. Also let us not lose sight of the fact that Leon Panetta is against the Patriot Act and electronic surveillance and surprisingly enough, so is the future President. So I guess we had better be prepared to see our government spend massive amounts of taxpayer money on stools as many of these terrorist mutts will probably be made to sit in the corner for hours on end. That is unless their self esteem might suffer.

I am convinced from listening to various others who are experienced in the intelligence field that our country will suffer another attack within a year of Barack Hussein Obama taking office. A damn high price to pay for being fashionable and politically correct.

SENATE:

Let me first state the obvious. I have no high regard for Roland Burris who was the man named by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat created when Barack Hussein Obama resigned. I refuse to believe that Mr. Burris is any different from any other Illinois politician who has been a member of the corrupt democrat machine which has been running Illinois for years. But the fact remains that since Blagojevich has not been impeached and is still the Governor of the State of Illinois, that his appointment is legal and under the Constitution should be recognized as valid. The main reason, however, that I am taking this particular stance is that Mr. Burris' appointment has Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin on "TILT". Anything which those two idiots are against, I am in 100% support. On the other hand, of course, if those two turds were for the appointment, I could take the other position just as easily. If you have formed the opinion that neither Harry Reid or Dick Durbin could do anything which would please me, then you are very perceptive.

GLOBAL WARMING:

A few days back in our local liberal rag, The (Sub) Standard Times, [ For those of you residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco, the word "Sub" in parenthesis is my addition and not actually a part of the name of the liberal rag] there appeared an article regarding how many species of birds had been observed recently in our fair city. The article stated that this bird count was conducted by the National Audubon Society. This included the area within a 15 mile radius centered at the H.E.B. parking lot. The group's sponsor noted that the Great Tailed Grackle and White-Winged Doves have been "creeping into the area".

This study noted that there were 116 species of our feathered friends spotted, a total of 25,590 birds. This count was down from 2007 when a total of 30,213 birds were observed. The most common bird was the Common Grackle totaling 11,487 birds. This terribly interesting article also listed the following numbers as the highest count numbers ever recorded in the 44 years San Angelo has participated in the count for these specific species:

* Black-bellied whistling duck: 15

* Neo tropic cormorants: 15

* Eurasian collard dove: 190

* Hooded merganser: 88

* Carolina wren: 19

Now while all this information was interesting but not horribly important to the average American, either this group or the broad who wrote the article came to this conclusion:

"These birds have come in the area relatively recently because of: shifts in habitat that were almost ASSUREDLY EXACERBATED BY GLOBAL WARMING. The study also noted that there was a marked absence of regular wintering birds, including cedar waxwings, lark buntings, and dark-eyed juncos. Also notably absent were both western and eastern screech owls." Aren't owls generally a nocturnal bird? So, how many then should we expect to see during the daylight hours?

Now before you go off half cocked, the article also went on to explain that there were 20 participants who took place in the 2008 count.

So let me get this straight: 20 people spread out over a 30 mile circle made their one day count and came to the conclusion that the count showed almost ASSUREDLY that the amount and species of birds in our area was due to GLOBAL WARMING. One must wonder if all of our scientific information is conducted in such an in depth manner?

Never mind that many places on our planet are reporting colder than normal temperatures. Never mind that many reports by the scientific community show that our polar ice caps are actually INCREASING. Never mind that a recent article reported that our sea ice is approaching 1979 volume. Never mind that in the past 25 years or so that our polar bear population has gone from 5,000 to over 25,000. No let us all sit idly by and follow the lead of that fat jerk, Al Gore.

Also, if they are worried about the increase in the grackle population, just say the word and I can go to work on cutting it down significantly.

GOVERNMENT INTRUSION:

I read an article a couple of days back which was written by George Will. The article was entitled: Government Intrusion Blossoming.

Mr. Will began his article pointing out that in 1966, the price of eggs rose to a level that then President Lyndon Johnson judged, God knows how, was too high. Mr. Will pointed out that there were two culprits ---- Supply and Demand ------ and Johnson's agriculture secretary told him that there was not much that could be done.

LBJ, however, a can do fellow, directed the U.S. Surgeon General to dampen demand by warning the nation about the hazards of cholesterol in eggs. Incidentally, I have watched reports by several medical doctors who say that the cholesterol scare regarding eggs is in error.

Today we have our Congress getting into our every day operations and bring politics ------- like the push for green cars ------- into the equation. But don't worry, no less an authority than Congressmutt Barney Frank said: "Oh well, a push for green cars is very much a part of what we're involved in. We don't think that's politics."

So when the government sticks its hands into our economy, uses its power to compel an industry to pursue the objectives of the political party that controls both of the government's political branches, we should not view that as POLITICS. Now Barney Frank said that he was not competent to say whether or not GM should acquire Chrysler, he obviously views himself at the top of the competency heap to say what type of vehicles the auto industry should make.

I personally think that Congressidiot Frank was, as William F. Buckley would have said, "Fastidiously Correct" when he indicated that he was short on the competency gene.

Now if you think that our federal government ceases its involvement in our everyday lives with their pitiful showing on our economy, just look at what they have done to our public education system, AT EVERY LEVEL. Now go back and remember what Nikita Kruschev said many years ago about taking us without firing a shot and doing it through our children.

U.N.:

I have watched several reports regarding proposed U.N. resolutions and U.N. rhetoric regarding the fighting between the Israelis and the Hamas Terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

In case you have not gathered from my past expressions on my views of the United Nations, let me bring you up to date. They are useless. They are irrelevant. They are dishonest. They are a drain on our economy. We should either use the Corleone method of diplomacy (Make them an offer they can't refuse) and if they don't take heed, pull all of our funding and close down the headquarters in New York City and let them set up shop elsewhere.

As has been shown too often in the past, none of the aggressive terrorist countries pay the U.N. any heed. When you look at a map of the Mid-East and look at tiny Israel completely surrounded by Muslim Nations and if you pay any attention at all to what the real intentions of these Muslim countries are, you should have absolutely no doubt as to the incompetency of the diplomatic efforts of the United Nations. They have about as much a chance of success as you would trying to block my wife at the front of Tuesday Morning during their 90% off after Christmas sale. In case you don't know how ugly that can get, just try it sometime. (Also, for those of you fortunate enough to live in "The Freedom Loving People's Province of Austin, Tuesday Morning is the name of a rather large department store).

PRAYER LIST:

Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, James & Pat Murphy - HOBBS,NM; Ella Dunlop - SAN ANTONIO,TX; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Arthur Baebel- HOUSTON,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan-ADA,OK; Meryl Coleman & Dan Higdon-FLORENCE,OR; Paul Gula-ORLANDO,FL; Bill Alderman-CELINA,TX' Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, GySgt. James Walker, Cpl. Michael Rice, LtCol. James Moore, Brandon Robinson, Sgt. Eric Harmon - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas - US COAST GUARD; Eric Grudziecke, Elizabeth Chaffon, Clair Vest, SSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; LCDR Robert McLay- US NAVY; Midshipman Levi English - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt (Fr) Kevin Peek; USA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; John Mallory-DEA

QUOTES:

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedan lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy."..................... WINSTON CHURCHILL - On Islam.

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad governments result from too much government."............... THOMAS JEFFERSON

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.".......... THOMAS JEFFERSON

KEYNES AT HARVARD - Published 1960

** The Keynesian theory of economics has swept the academic world to an extent unprecedented in modern times. The focal point of the Keynesian doctrine in the United States has been Harvard University. From Harvard Keynesian influence spread to Yale, Princeton, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and eventually almost every College and University in the United States.

From academic circles the Keynesian dogma percolated into government departments on all levels. Not only those bureaus having to do with economic and statistical matters were affected but policy making bodies such as the State Department, the Presidential Office, the Treasury Department, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Labor were dominated by Keynesian thinking.

Certain industrialists, particularly those depending on government contracts and handouts, became enamored of this new philosophy.

A check of the outstanding representatives of Keynesism in America discloses the fact that they are largely the same people who had been leaders in the socialist movement for many years past. **

A bunch of this stuff should be looking pretty familiar to us all. Keep in mind this publication was published in 1960 (For those of you currently being held prisoner in the Gulag of Boston, that would be 49 years ago.)

VARMINTS:

"Fat Teddy" Senator Edward Kennedy; "Fat Albert" Al Gore; Harry Reid; Nancy Pelosi; DIck Durbin; Rod Blagojevich; Rahm Emanuel; Barney Frank; Senator Chris Dodd; Every person in Minnesota who voted for that turd Al Franken.***

*** Have any of you ever noticed that Al Franken looks frighteningly like Thaddeus J. Toad in the old Walt Disney cartoon feature of "The Wind In The Willows"?

MISCELLANEOUS:

OK. I'm pretty sure you all are already aware of this but your time is running out to purchase either individually or the entire set of the President Barack Obama Commemorative Coins. The set consists of the Statue of Liberty on one side of the coin and on the other side "In Color" is Barack Hussein Obama and either George Washington; John F. Kennedy; Abraham Lincoln; OR the Hawaiian Islands.

Surely you must all be almost as excited as I was when I found out that these collector coins were going to be made available to us commoners. I am sorry but I cannot tell you the price of the coins as I was too busy rolling on the floor with laughter at some idiot's idea of pushing these pieces of crap off on the American public.

Last week I was listening to the Glenn Beck radio program and they were interviewing various people who were residents of the United States who had live here for five years. They were all asked questions which were pretty simple and had they been U.S. Citizens, should have known most of the answers. One dude was asked the question as to what would be John McCain's position now that the election was over. The answer was of course, he would be the Vice President since he came in second behind Barack Obama. Anyway the results surprisingly showed that most of these Obama voters had an I.Q. which roughly approached that of a soccer ball.

Yesterday I received an e-mail from a friend in the Tucson,Arizona area. This person was at a local club and was involved in a conversation with a new acquaintance and during the discussion they got on a subject and it seems as if each of them were in contact with some conservative Jingoistic nut from Texas. They both then figured out that it was the same guy. ME. Needless to say, I was really pleased to learn that this proves that there is definitely a brotherhood/sisterhood among us conservatives. Anyway I got a kick out of it.

Yesterday, my wife and I took part in a little volunteer program which we do every January and at other times during the year when we are called upon. Here in San Angelo there is a locally run program entitled "Meals For The Elderly". This is not "Meals On Wheels" which receives federal and other government funding. This program is entirely financed through donations and local fund raisers. With just a very few exceptions, all of the workers are volunteers and the administrative costs of this organization are something like 8%. Compare that with some of the administrative costs of some of these national so called charities at from 60% to 75%.

Anyway, our route was in a relatively low income section of the city and it was pretty easy to tell that most of these people lived on either their small Social Security income or in some cases they were living on their deceased spouse's Social Security. All of them were over 70 years old and some had to use walking assisted devices. Our last meal delivery was to a lady who I would guess to be in her late 80's. She was bedridden and lived alone. There was a note on the delivery sheet and also on her door to bring the meal to her in her bedroom. The house was small with a small kitchen, a small living area, a bathroom and one small bedroom with a small black and white TV. I took the meal back to the lady and she did have a wheel chair at her bedside. No one was in the house with her. This little lady had a nice smile on her face and when I set the meal down on the table and handed her a newspaper, she smiled and said "Thank you honey, you have a nice day."

This is the type of greeting you generally receive from these people who are certainly among our poorer residents. Their attitude is amazing and I never do this without stopping to realize just how very fortunate most of us are. So every time this year when I get to thinking about how the world has treated me, I will think of this little bedridden lady with the nice smile and great attitude.

I sincerely hope all of you and your families have a great 2009. My 2009 got off to a pretty good start with the Fiesta Bowl with Texas being on the winning end of a 24 - 21 game. It was a really exciting game up until the last few seconds.

So with that I must be off to continue my quest in search of something which does not offend the Nation of Islam. In the event I am unsuccessful in this seemingly impossible task, I will try to locate a democrat politician who possesses even the slightest vestige of common sense.

If unable to complete either of these tasks, I think I'll just buy up all the ammunition I can.

Later

JEM