The End of Ends
On this fine Easter Sunday, as we celebrate the end of eternal death, it is perhaps appropriate to think about some ends of another sort. Lately, it has become fashionable to pontificate about the end of this and the end of that.

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The Audacity of Hype!

Watch out! The squaws are off the reservation.

Just listen:

“In one of his disturbing spells of passivity, President Obama decided not to fight Congress and live up to his own no-earmark pledge from the campaign. Team Obama sounds hollow, chanting that ‘the status quo is not acceptable,’ even while conceding that the president is accepting the status quo by signing a budget festooned with pork.”

Who’s that? You ask. Could it be John McCain? No, it’s none other than Team Obama cheerleader Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. Mo, even had the audacity to give Johnny Mac a left-handed kudo for his diatribe in the Senate over the pork laden Federal Budget.

“There was a bit of King Lear in the scene on the Senate floor, a stormy, solitary John McCain on ‘this great stage of fools,’ as the Bard wrote, railing against both parties and the president in fiery speeches and rapid-fire tweets.

‘He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath,’ the Fool told Lear. And he’s truly mad that trusts in the promise of a presidential candidate to quell earmarks.”

Methinks squaw speaks truth.

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Substitute post

I have written, edited, rewritten and edited several posts in the last two or three days without publishing any of them. Don't look for a my piece on the paper this week, I didn't send one in.

I know what I want to say, I just can't decide weather to say it. You know, like your mother told you, "if you can't say anything nice..."

It's not that I don't want to offend anyone, I offend people on a regular basis, I just don't think the people who need to understand what I am saying are up to it at this point. They need a little more time to soak in what is happening right now.

I always save my drafts so I can come back to them, and in time I may.

The Obama Plan

The plunging stockmarket should be the first clue in decoding the Obama plan. President Obama only has to say a few positive words about our economy to encourage investors toward restoring confidence. But he does not - he continues with the fear speeches, and the Dow plunges daily.

Socialists and Communists inspire fear in order to gain control. That is exactly what is happening today. In a carefully orchestrated plan, President Obama and the majority Senate and Congress are working diligently toward a government takeover of the free-market in America.

Nationalizing banks.... Nationalizing healthcare... Allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire... Terrorists let out of Guantanamo Bay...

A blogger friend sums it up this way: But after five weeks in office, it's become clear that Mr. Obama's policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery. From punishing business to squandering scarce national public resources, Team Obama is creating more uncertainty and less confidence -- and thus a longer period of recession or subpar growth. Chlorinated Liberty

It is becoming increasingly clear that President Obama does not care. He is out of touch with the day-to-day reality of Americans and has lived a very insulated life for many years.

Obama cannot continue to distance himself from his failing economic mess. He has very pathtically tried to blame the Bush administration for this, but never, in 8 years of Bush, did the stockmarket experience such dismal numbers. It wasn't until Democrats took over Congress in 2006 that America began the economic plunge.

Even liberals are suffering and are now vociferous about losing their retirement savings and college funds. However, it is always liberal economic policies that cause failure - jobs in government do not grow the economy. Government owned and operated projects are not growth of anything except the government.

Watch closely - Obama and friends have already started the takeover by plunging our economy so far into the abyss that we come begging to them for help. Does this sound familiar?
In January 1933, Adolf Hitler took the reins of a 14-year-old German democratic republic which in the minds of many had long outlived its usefulness. By this time, the economic pressures of the Great Depression combined with the indecisive, self-serving nature of its elected politicians had brought government in Germany to a complete standstill. The people were without jobs, without food, quite afraid and desperate for relief. Now, the man who had spent his entire political career denouncing and attempting to destroy the republic, was its leader.

We are headed for disaster if conservatives do nothing but stand by and watch in horror. We cannot let history repeat, knowing what we know.

Dirty Jobs in Washington DC

Hello, Mike Rowe here taking a look at yet another dirty job. So where am I going ? Am I going to animal rendering plant or a dairy farm? Nope, I am heading to quite possibly the dirtiest place I have ever been in.

I am here in the nation's capital, Washington DC, and more specifically, in the office of Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid. Senator Reid, nice to see you and thanks for letting us take a look behind the scenes at your office to see what really happens inside the beltway. I am also pleased to have Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi here with us. Thanks to you both.

Thank you Mike, glad to have you here in the capital.
I love your show Mike, but I don't really see why you came to DC. While we work pretty hard, we don't usually break a sweat, right Nancy?


That's right, we are always working hard for the American people Mark, but it isn't what you would call a dirty job.



That's Mike, Mrs. Speaker. Well, I may not know a lot about the finer points of politics but one thing I am very familiar with is manure. I was looking over the 'Stimulus Package' you two are working on, along with President Obama and I must say, it is loaded with manure.



Mike, we have to do something to get this economy back on track. Every dollar of this stimulus package has been specifically targeted to create jobs and jump start the economy.



Wheew! I'm glad you folks at home can't smell the load of manure Senator Reid just flung at me. I have smelled some pretty rank things on this show, but how do you two get used to the smell of this stimulus package?



What smell?



C'mon guys, I am getting pretty good at recognizing certain smells, and this stimulus package has the distinct stench of pig. It must be the hundreds of billions in pork barrel spending you guys loaded into this thing. No wonder you want to get it passes before people have a chance to look at it, let alone smell it. Look at this crap right here. What is this, it says its $13 million in improvements in Las Vegas, much of it for a pedestrian bridge at the Tropicana hotel-casino. Whew, that stinks Mrs. Speaker.


That's unfair Mike. The President, Senator Reid and I are acting in the best interest of America, we want to do what's right for everyone. And it's in Senator Reid's home state, so it must be a good project.



Ughh, there is that smell again, I think my eyes are tearing up. What about this handful of manure right here? This one is $4.8 million for a polar bear exhibit in Rhode Island.



Those are critical infrastructure projects that will put Americans back to work. And both Senators from Rhode Island are Democrats, so that helps.



Ughh, I can't take any more of this. Thanks Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi for this chance to look at the mess here in Washington. Folks, I have only been digging around here for an hour and I have been covered head to toe in this crap. I am taking a long shower, and now a word from our sponsors.



Up to your eyeballs in crap? You need the new CrapWow!

Nancy (soylent green) Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi made it clear that the birth of babies is a burden to the states during an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos . With the rapid aging of the baby boomers its time for them to watch out also. They will be an unprecedented burden to the economy. So unless you are a Senator or congressmen you just might be made to drink the kool aid.

Interesting talks

Last night my son and I were watching a History Channel show on Martin Luther King Jr. It seemed to me, as I watched the black and white footage of the first attempt at the Selma march, that I was watching an America from 100 years ago. An America I didn’t know. I was trying to give my son a frame of reference, explaining a world and a way of thinking that he has never known.

One of the things my son wondered about was why it took more than 100 years, from the end of the Civil War until the Civil Rights movement, for southern blacks to truly gain equal rights? That was, and still is, a good question. A question I am not sure I or anyone can answer.

I told my son that the worst blow made to the newly freed slaves was the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Without the leadership and vision of Lincoln, the nation tore it self apart again as factions fought over the reconstruction of the South. President Andrew Johnson, a southern Democrat, was no match for angry northern Republicans incensed at the assassination of Lincoln by a southerner, and he fared no better with southern Democrats who saw him as a traitor to the confederate cause. With the divisions in the federal government and impeachment of Johnson, the southern states slowly and deliberately enacted laws to deny blacks the freedoms won by those who fought and died in the Civil War.

Lincoln would have had a tremendous task, insuring the newly won rights of the former slaves, and no doubt there would have been more bloodshed, setbacks and even compromises, but the foothold of government sanctioned racism would have not been allowed to become a 100 year yolk around the neck of our nation. I told my son that had Lincoln lived, a 1960’s style Civil Rights movement in the south may have happened before the turn of the 20th century. But what do I know?

The next two days offer two examples of how much this nation has changed since March 7th, 1965, and that Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama. If you asked one of the marchers or one of the march protesters if they thought somewhere out there, a four year old son of black Kenyan father and white Kansas mother would grow up to be President of the Unites States, I don’t think either side would have thought it possible.

The great thing about this nation is its ability to change, grow and evolve. As Bill Bennett points out in his book, America - The Last Best Hope, one of the best milestones in race relation we experienced was not when Frank Robinson was hired as the first black manger in the major leagues, it was when he was fired. It proved more than anything else that we were ready to judge people on their performance, not on the color of their skin.

As President Obama is sworn in amid the fanfare and celebration, I can tell my son that America has come a long way in my lifetime and I hope it goes even further in his. While I will still vigorously disagree with policies and legislation I believe to be harmful to our nation, I will continue, as I did at church on Sunday, to pray for our new President. I would like to see Barack Obama remembered, not as the first African-American President, but as capable, successful President. I want him to succeed because I want to see America succeed.

American Express

Now the American Taxpayer will be picking up the dime for dead beat card holders.
The American Taxpayer don't leave home without them!

The "No on 8" group has no valid argument!

I challange them to try to show how one side can marry the same sex, while the other side can't marry the same sex!

What if a straight male wanted to marry another straight male just to get the benifits of the marriage contract? They are denied the same as if two gays want to do the same thing.

Therefore under the "Equal Protection Clause" there is no need for a change to the Constitution, and Prop 8 was properly voteded on as an "Admendment" and not a "Change."

Again, I challenge anyone to show how gays are being denied a "right" to marry the same sex and the "straights" somehow are allowed!

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