Really?

Ok, call me anything you want but I claim no particular political party. I do tend to vote republican, however, I just saw an interview with Republican John Flemming that set me to laughing my ass off. He actually claims that after taxes and paying 500 employees and rent on his buildings and food for his stores he only makes 600 thousand a year. What set me to LMAO was his next statement that after feeding his family he's only left with 400 thousand to buy new locations upgrade his locations and by new equipment. This to my knowledge does not include his 174 thousand dollar congressional salary. This means he spends 200k on food for his family a year. Where do I sign up for him to adopt me. I love the republican party but dude, My family lives on less than 40k a year, we pay for a house, a car groceries and all the stuff that makes our life comfortable on a fraction of what it takes to feed your family. Oh and BTW How farking big is your family. I have one thing to say to you, "Quit bitching because they want to raise the taxes on the rich. I'm on the verge of bankruptcy and you're whining because you have to live on (with your congressional salary) just under 800 thousand a year. Personally I think you assholes in the senate and congress should be paid minimum wage until you can figure out how to balance the F***ing budget. I wish I had the money to buy national advertiseing time I'd go on t.v. every day till the election telling the country to vote all you silly asses out of office and put in some real Americans that actually give a damn about the little people struggling to support themselves while you whining, crybaby, power hungry, egotistical panty wastes take our money to redistribute it to people to lazy to work, not to mention to pay your exhorbitant salaries. You want us to think you know whats best for us yet you can't balance a budget. The country is going bankrupt because you keep raising the debt ceiling without a budget, oh did I forget to mention you can't balance a budget? Lets inact the fair tax system and then everyone pays the same amount of taxes including the 14 million illegal aliens in this country and the tourists. I think if we added over 14 million tax payers the budget could then get balanced. Oh wait, i forgot, if that happened then the government wouldn't be able to control what we make, how we spend it or how much of it they get to keep for their next raise, sorry what the hell was I thinking.?

A new day in Government.

I wonder what would happen if the people of the United States of the Offended were to suddenly retake control pf our government. We could simply replace every incumbent senator and congressman in the next election. It would be a new day for our country. A good day or a bad would would yet to be determined but it really couldn't be any worse than what we have now could it?

Wonder how it would turn out?

You know, I think I'll find out if I can sue the government for infringing on my constitutional right to freedom of religion. I mean, telling someone you can't say the word God at a funeral in a cemetery or telling me I can't pray with like minded students at a school or other function denies me my rights to freedom of religion. If everyone would worry about themselves and quit worrying about what other people are doing you wouldn't get offended now would you? Do me a favor, worry about your own religion, or lack of one, and leave me to worry about mine. Mind your own business and quit minding mine, I don't answer to anyone but God and the law. If I offended anyone who reads this know that I do not apologize. I love my God and my country and I get ill when I'm told how I can and can not worship and even more ill when our soldiers sacrifice their life and have their funerals protested.. We are no longer the United States of America, as far as I'm concerned we are now known as "The United States of the Offended"

United States of the Offended

From this day forward I will no longer be calling our country the United States of America. I will from now on refer to our country by its new name, The United States of the Offended. I first heard this term used by Robert D. Raiford of the John Boy and Billy Big Show years ago. Now, after years of watching our rights slowly being taken away for fear of "Offending" some group or another, I have finally realized that we are a nation of people who are offended and outraged when somebody else doesn't think or believe the same way we do. Our government, right now is trying to curtail our rights to freedom of religion. They are so scared of offending non Christians and Muslims that they are trying to keep the Christians from praying or even speaking the name of God in public places. The only group of people the government does not seem to care about offending are the Christians, and yes, this offends me. There are other rights that the government and the lawmakers are trying to circumvent for fear of offending other groups but the one mentioned above is the one that first comes to mind because it is the most prevalent and the one that gets the most coverage in the media.
 I will be continuing this post and going into more detail about the other rights our leaders are trying to take from us in order not to offend the others of us, but for now it is late and I'm to tired to think any more.

Reporting from the front: Again.

Here is a follow up for you on my last post. Today the US has learned that after the first two British tomahawk missles hit Qadaffi's compound that Libyan officials invited a group of CNN and Rueters reporters to the compound to view the damage done by the missles. In effect they used them as human shields, British Tornado fighters had to call off the follow up attack on the compound after learning the reporters were there. Again I ask you, what the hell are civilian reporters doing in a battle zone? What the hell is their purpose for being there?

Only good news for reporters today is that the four New York Times reporters captured last week were in fact released today by Libya.

Reporting from the front?

A thought has come to me after watching the world news of the last few months. I understand the need for news, I even understand the need for news overseas during turmoil and war. What I don't understand is why we can't get that news from a military source who is there during the fighting for the military rather than sending in civilian reporters and crew. The military does have, after all, reporters and camera men serving in every branch of the military. In almost every war that has happened in recent times, reporters and their support crews are captured, detained and tortured, detained and slaughtered or in some cases detained during the conflict and eventually released, not to mention the civilian reporters who give away our own troop positions and movements claiming freedom of the press grants them the right to say anything they want. There's a special place in hell for this last group of reporters and I personally feel any reporter who gives away their own troops movements should be arrested and tried for treason.

Reporters really chap my ***

I really am interested in what is going on in Japan right now.  After all, I spent two years of my life stationed aboard the USS Midway in Yokosuka. I'm reading the news every couple hours to try and keep up with the situation there, but every reporter in the world seems to work into their story that the death toll could go as high as 10,000.  Doesn't matter what the story is about, they always refer to the predicted death toll. I read a story while ago that not only mentioned the death toll but did so in each of its five paragraghs. Reporters seem to think they have to beat us over the head with certain facts or we'll forget them.  What makes them think that every piece they write has to contain some mention of how many are likely to die is beyond me.

I don't claim to be a writer; what I can tell you is this: when the information doesn't relate to the story, I don't see any purpose to working it in. The latest story I was reading was on the situation with the Fukushima Nuclear plant.  Wouldn't you know, the second paragraph goes right into the predicted death toll from the tsunami and earth quake. Umm look, I wasn't reading the article to be reminded yet again how many people may have died, I was reading the article to find out how the efforts to cool the plant down were going and how much radiation was being leaked into the atmosphere!

Let's hit the Links!?!

Lets go play golf. Why not, President Bush played 24 rounds of golf in his first 2 years and 10 months as president before finally giving the game up saying he didn't feel it sent the right message for him to play golf while our parents/children/siblings/family were dying in a war over seas.
 Obama played 24 rounds of golf in his first nine months in office, in fact he has now been in office two years two months and 16 days and he has now played sixty one rounds of golf. Now I love playing golf as much as the next golf fan and last year I got to play more in one year than I ever have before, approximately four rounds. I don't begrudge anyone a little time on the golf course but come on, you are the president of the United States, you have responsibilities. We are right now in crisis mode in much of the world, and you are out playing golf. I'm sorry, I'm not being fair, you did play eighteen holes of golf on Saturday but I forgot to mention what else you did on Saturday. Saturday was also the day you sat down and video taped your picks for the NCAA basketball tournaments for ESPN. I keep forgetting how well rounded and talented our illustrious leader is, he has been called the Messiah which must mean his mad community organizational skills are doubly effective.

Whats wrong with this picture?

Ok, Wisconsin is in an uproar. Why? The labor unions are all hot and bothered because the Republican party took the horse by the reins and decided to vote on collective bargaining with or without the democrats. Well,  it seems to me the people should be revolting against the democrats, after all, the democratic party are the ones who fled the state in an attempt to keep Republicans from curtailing union labor bargaining rights. The democratic party are the ones who decided not to do their jobs. Obama said that while he understands state governments' need to make cuts, the Wisconsin proposal seems like "an assault on unions." Well, we knew he would take the side of the unions, after all he is all for the unions and the government running everyone's life. 
  I'm sorry but it seems to me that the anger the labor unions have should be directed at the democratic party since they are the ones who let them down. They say during elections that, "If you don't vote you have no right to complain about the outcome." Well it seems to me the labor unions have no right to complain, their chosen party didn't stick around to barter or vote on their behalf. If it were me, I would dock the pay of the senators who fled the state for every day they failed to perform their job, after all if I decided  not to show up at work I wouldn't get paid. This would also save the state money. I would also let the democrats know that if they failed to do their jobs again they would be the ones recalled. In my opinion, if they had stayed in the state, a compromise might have been reached.