The Lemming Who Wooden

One month out predictions...

2010-10-05T13:50:00.003-04:00

We're less than one month out from national election night and the pundits and talking heads are throwing around numbers, massaging the polls, "thinking outside the box" and generally proving that you get any 5 of them in a room and you'll get 8 opinions.

After looking at various polling data from around the country and taking some conservative estimates, I can say without a doubt this is going to be a historic election night.

My prediction is that the Democrats will retain the Senate at a margin of 52 to 48 and the Republicans will turn over the house and achieve 235 seats to the Democrats 200.

For those of you keeping track that would be a grand total of 7 lost seats in the Senate for the Democrats and a loss of 55 seats in the House for the Democrats. This roughly equates to a loss of 12% and 22% respectively. Overall 87.4% of the House incumbents will be reelected Nov 2nd. That means for the first time in electoral history that I can find, the rehire rate for the House of Representatives will be less than 90%. Most years its in the 90-96% range (very rarely does it even get close to 90% much less below it). The last time we had such a drastic turnover was 1992 at 88%. I know some may be thinking that 1994 (The supposed or unfulfilled "Contract with America") where Republicans swept the house for the first time in 60 years had to have been larger than this coming election (if my predictions prove accurate), but truly the turnover for 1994 was only a 90%. The last time we actually had a larger turnover (again against my prediction) was 1970 when 85% of the House was reelected.

It's still a little lower than what is required for the TMRHG. I think a lot a people would like to see better than 90%....fired that is....

What is TMRHG you ask? Why it's what I call the Turnover Margin Required for Honest Government...

So with us not reaching that threshhold (and yes it's a made up term and number, but I think it should become a standard to measure "successful" elections against), we need to ask the obvious question....

How long a honeymoon are the Republicans going to have?

The answer is how long a honeymoon are you going to LET them have?

Me personally, I'll be writing a polite letter the day after the election to let them know our "Congressional Ejection Threat Level" procedures so that they will always know without a doubt where they stand with the electorate.

GREEN=Really Happy=Parades in your honor.

BLUE=Content=Calm and Peaceful weekend visits to your District.

YELLOW=Ancy=The occasional call, Fax, and letter politely reminding you of your responsibility.

ORANGE=Irritated=Uncomfortable questions at town halls, lines of people registering their disgust at your home office, and frazzled staff at having to answer 1000's of phone calls a day.

RED=Angry=Protests, absolute phone bank meltdown, avoidance of your district for your own mental health, 1000's of pink slips in the mail, and launching a search for your possible replacement.

MAROON=&%#$'ing Pissed=Torches, Pitchforks, Asian Carp wrapped in paper and delivered to your office (ask Mr. Rahm Emanuel...he'll fill you in on that one), and people hounding you day and night.

PLAID=Rage beyond description=Warpipes, William Wallace impersonators, horse head in your bed, YOUR search for a place to serve as your home in exile, and you dressing as the opposite sex and wearing a wig when going out of your house.

Our current CETL is Red....

Dear future congressional leader, you will not start out anywhere less than orange...

Every month that goes by without you having done what we elected you to do will require an increase in the CETL...

That means you have until the beginning of April before we go plaid...

Don't make us go plaid, you wouldn't like us when we're plaid...

Clemens vs. History's Greatest Conglomeration of Hypocrites

2010-08-20T10:47:00.004-04:00

I know.

Everyone else is talking about "The Mosque".

I haven't written a post in a while because I've kind of been burnt out on the whole political scene, and with the overwhelming numbers of people out there demagoguing all these issues TOO DEATH. I felt there was little left unsaid, and honestly I had better things to do with my time.

However I couldn't let this one slip.

Roger Clemens has just been brought up on charges for basically lieing to the U.S. Congress.

Lieing to Congress...

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!

Bill Clinton lied to congress...
Congress Critters lie on their tax forms...
Republicans promised term limits...
Both of them promised fiscal responsibility...
"Most Ethical Congress in History"...
Our troops were never in Cambodia...
Our borders are secure...
Gitmo was going to be closed down...
The health care bill will SAVE us money...
"I read the bill"...

Lies, lies, and more lies.

They don't even follow their own rules, much less the ones they set up for us the underclass, the peasantry. I could list many, many, many more as I bet you could as well.

Listing the lies isn't important. It's just putting this news story in the absurd context that has been left out by ALL news organizations.

Where does any of the politicians in D.C. get off prosecuting ANYONE for lieing?

Let's call this what it is.

The politicians in D.C. don't like their own medicine, and feel that only they are allowed to lie, and because it is "For the Greater Good".

They rationalize their own sins while persecuting a citizen who happened to deny that he used performance enhancing drugs.

We have no jobs, no money, mountains of debt, the housing market is in the toilet, Arizona is being sued by the Federal Government for doing the job that the Feds are unwilling to do, etc.

And we're worried about baseball...

In other words, business as usual in Washington D.C.

We don't need no stinkin' papers...

2010-05-21T04:10:00.004-04:00

One of the tricks of blogging is, in my humble opinion, coming up with clever titles (or attempts at clever titles). So in dealing with the Arizona immigration law, I had so many to choose from. Here were some other choices.

"Much ado about nothing...."

"Immigration A-Z...."

"How many Washington Idiots does it take to read a 10 page bill?..."

In the end however, a quote from Mel Brooks classic "Blazing Saddles" is hard to pass up.

The quote comes from the part where the crooks are signing people up for a posse and some Mexican Bandito's sign up and the person signing them up is about to hand them deputy's badges and they laugh and say "We don't need no stinking badges".

Isn't that kind of what's wrong with our immigration system? I mean, if your from Africa, or Asia, or Europe, or Antarctica, or Mars....you best believe you need your papers. If you are from Mexico or points south and only speak Spanish....Asking for your papers is...

Discriminatory?!?!?

How does that work exactly?

Ask Arizona. It doesn't.

We've heard from the Lecturer in Chief on how this law is dangerous and allows for law enforcement to abuse the civil rights of illegal aliens. We've heard much the same from the Attorney General, the Speaker of the House, the Senate Majority leader, the President of Mexico, the ACLU, et al.

What do all these people have in common.

They haven't read a 10 page bill.

They haven't read the case law.

They have NO IDEA what they are talking about.

This is your tax dollars at work folks. After reading the bill myself, I am struck at how easy it is to understand (as compared to the Health Care debacle) this bill.

I also noticed that when compared with Federal Law, illegal immigrants actually have MORE rights under the Arizona law than the Federal law. According to a UNANIMOUS ruling by the Supreme Court in Mueller v. Mena, Federal officials do NOT need to have just cause for asking for your "papers". They don't need to have underlying cirumstances. Nope...not one.

In the Arizona law, you have to be "detained" in some manner. Such as a traffic stop, accident, search warrant, etc. In this way Arizona law is much more gentle than is Federal law.

So if that is in fact the case, why are the Democrats in D.C. so dead set against this law? Keep in mind I say the Democrats in D.C. Over 80% of Democrat voters support the Arizona bill, once they are TRUTHFULLY told what is in it.

They are dead set against it, because they never had any intention of ever enforcing our immigration policies and laws. Never. Ever. Ever.

Don't get me wrong. Very few politicians in D.C. are hot to trot on this issue. Everyone thinks pandering to illegals is the wave of the political future. They've just forgotten one thing. Oh yeah the people that already live here legally, might have a little problem with us advocating abuse of our sovreignty....oooops!

Arizona was tired of waiting for the Feds to do their job. More and more states are drafting similar legislation. More and more people are getting "Fed" up with a government that refuses to do their job. The one we pay them to do. Secure our borders. National security.

It's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. It's a respect for our laws and our sovreignty thing.

The Media doesn't get it.....
The President doesn't get it....
The Speaker doesn't get it....
The Attorney General doesn't get it....

but the American people do....you know those silly people who vote and give you jobs. You would do well to remember that the next time you open your mouths and speak on a 10 page legal document you haven't read.

Just Sayin'

I wish Harkin was the only pompous idiot in Washington....

2010-03-19T11:59:00.007-04:00

This was the comment of Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa...

"What this [senate health care] bill does is we finally take that step, as our leader said earlier, we take that step from health care as a privilege to health care as an inalienable right of every singe American citizen. . . . Like every right that we’ve ever passed for the American people we revisit it later on to enhance and build on those rights. And we will do that here, surely, that we will enhance and build on this, but we have made that first and most important step: to make it a right rather than a privilege."

At this point my jaw hit the floor and I had to rewind and play it a couple of times just to make sure I was hearing what I heard.

I previously had put out a blog post that was titled "What is in a name"....which discussed the differences between populists and progressives. In this blog I said that rarely do progressives come right out and tell you what they think. Most of the time it just slips out. Like this comment.

Some would say, "That was just a flub, he didn't really mean that." OH YES HE DID! He and others like him just don't want us to know about it.

For those of you who don't know why this is such a big deal here is the quote from the Declaration of Independence...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Why is that quote so important? It's because in no other founding document in the world does the writer proclaim that citizens rights are above the rule of government. That government can NOT usurp or assail those rights. In fact the unalienable rights clause is most of the foundation amongst the early Human Rights and Civil Rights movements. It was a beacon that lit up the injustices in society and forced governments to live up to this lofty ideal. The ideal that there is a law higher than any law they could pass or enforce. A law that would cause any legislation passed, that is in contrast to those rights, to be deemed illegal. It would empower the public to DISOBEY the rule of government should those immutable laws be violated.

It was a first. Never had this happened before in history. In fact before our document, it was generally considered that the ruling power (royalty at the time) could make any law and those laws would have the power of a religious decree because of the "Divine Right of Kings". Let there be no mistake, there were precedents to our constitution and our declaration, however none of them truly approached the issue of INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS and what they are derived from.

Let's talk about what is a right. People are starting to use the term for everything. Right to college education, cars, phones, jobs, food, health care, vacations, TV's, computers, internet access, etc...In truth, a right is only a right if that action does not require the involvement of other individuals to provide the ingredients for that "right".

Ie;

Right to free speech...Does that require any ones involvement to make that happen. Nope..you can say what you want, when you want, and it doesn't infringe upon anyone else's rights.

Right to bear arms....Does that require someone to provide you with arms? Nope...

Right to Privacy....Does that infringe on anyone else's life or liberty...Nope....

Are you getting the picture?

A right is something that you can DO without infringing upon someone else's life, liberty or pursuit of happiness.

OK...How about health care....OK you can't afford it. So who pays for it? Government? Nope...everyone around you.

Food...Someone has to confiscate it from someone who grew it and owns it, to give it to you.

So here's the bottom line. When we empower the government to take from one person to give to another, we empower the government to infringe upon those UNALIENABLE RIGHTS. When a person buys land and has to pay taxes it on it perpetually or risk losing the land...do they really own it? Or is it just leased from the government? If the government decides how much money you can make or when you can make it....do you really own a business? Or are you just a caretaker for the REAL boss?

Some have called it social justice. Some have called it "To each according to his needs from each according to his ability." Some have called it compassion. Some have called it temporary. Some have instituted it as an emergency.

For me it doesn't matter what pretext there is to it, it only falls under one word.....

THEFT...

Sen. Harkin is more proof of the arrogance, the hubris of our elitist masters in Washington D.C. We have removed God from government, and in that vacuum Man has made himself god. When there is no higher power than man, man loses the ability to form a moral compass. We start to rationalize actions. Ends start to justify the means. The greater good becomes the goal, but only greater sorrow will ever result from it. We as man are incapable of ruling each other. That is why so many restrictions or "negative rights" were placed on the government. It wasn't the myopic view of antiquated Judeo-Christian values that formed our country. It was a timeless realization, formed into operational language, that man is fallible and that never should so much power be concentrated in one place that the rule of a few morons could destroy a whole nation.

Yet that is exactly what has happened. We've been ruled by decades of self assured idiots, who have increasingly decided that they know better than us. We're misguided. They are enlightened. They can fix everything. Just one more law. Just one more regulation and everything will be put right.

They haven't learned yet, that no ruler can ever fix an individual's circumstances, except the ruler that seeks to rule himself.

I started this blog with the title I wish Harkin was the only pompous idiot is Washington, and I wish it true, but it isn't. He has a lot of company.

Sic praecedo dominatus per plumbeus...

(My Latin is a little rusty but basically that means "thus the result of rule by the idiot")

What is in a name....

2010-03-18T09:23:00.002-04:00

What it means to be a populist...

Webster's defines the populist as:

Main Entry: 1 pop·u·list
Pronunciation: \ˈpä-pyə-list\
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin populus the people
Date: 1892
1 : a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people; especially often capitalized : a member of a United States political party formed in 1891 primarily to represent agrarian interests and to advocate the free coinage of silver and government control of monopolies
2 : a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people

My opponent in the May 4th Primary joined the "Populist Caucus" and considers herself to be a populist. The problem is that by it's very nature a populist should respect the wisdom of the "common man". It's about truly having a point of view that comes from the common man. So where do these populists end up? In the congress the populists are populated mostly by progressives (Nice alliteration don't you think? Now say THAT ten times fast!), who by their very nature are considered "fringe". The largest groups of people in the voting public align themselves center and right. Progressives are a very small minority in the public-at-large, but make up a disproportionate percentage of our legislators, both Democrat and Republican. Over half of our legislators align themselves (or their votes align them) with the progressive agenda, the other half are split between conservatives and moderates (centrists).

So what exactly is a progressive? THAT depends on who you ask. Most people that do align themselves with progressives, do so because the word sounds nice...."I like progress, who doesn't like progress?" The problem is that the word has very little to do with the platform. See, the progressive believes that government can perfect society through laws and regulation (ie: control). The progressive believes that only the "elite" can rule, because only they have the wisdom and insight necessary to engineer society. It sounds offensive and condescending, and it is. However you will not hear, often, the progressive spout the truth of their beliefs in public, because after all the "populace" is what gets them INTO power. Once in power, promises are forgotten, spin ensues, and the water is muddied. Sound familiar? That is the hallmark of progressive governance. They wallow in murky waters, it gives them cover to do whatever it is they want to do. Then the progressive Republicans blame the Democrats, the progressive Democrats blame the Republicans, and the electorate becomes frustrated by what they perceive as a completely corrupt system. This isn't an accident, it's by design. Read progressive ideologues such as Saul Elinsky, Woodrow Wilson, Robert Creamer, Oliver Wendel Holmes etc....You will see exactly what I am talking about.

So when you have Populism which puts it's faith in the wisdom of the common man, and Progressivism that puts faith in the elite....How can the Populist Caucus in congress be filled with progressives?

So when our Congresswoman from the 13th Congressional District from Ohio proceeds to vote for a bill that 73% of the public (*note* that percentage is rather populist in number is it not?), when she votes for Cap and Trade that will put hundreds of thousands of union workers on unemployment, keep in mind that those that make up the "Populist Caucus" are truly progressives. Then it will all make sense.

Our legislators vote against the will of the people because they are progressives. They believe that you are just too stupid to know what is good for you. Nancy Pelosi says “We have to pass this bill to find out what’s in it.” Read between the lines it reads "Just sit down and shut up, you will get what we give you and you'll like it." Bill Maher says "Forget getting the sixty votes or sixty percent - sixty percent of people don't believe in evolution in this country - he just needs to drag them to it, like I said, they're stupid; get health care done, with or without them."

THAT IS PROGRESSIVISM....

So how much longer are we going to put up with this type of "Representation"?

To lemming or not to lemming...that is the question....

Clean a Port-a-Potty...are you kidding me?

2010-02-05T18:15:00.003-05:00

Anyone who knows me, will know how I harp on and on about the need for real world experience in Corporate America and Washington D.C. Here are some excerpts from a story about a show that will be debuting after the "Big Game" this Sunday.

Reuters
updated 6:59 p.m. ET, Wed., Feb. 3, 2010

LOS ANGELES - Larry O'Donnell may be president of a Fortune 200 company. But the Waste Management chief operating officer got fired on his first day in a humble job picking up trash when working for his own organization. A rare television series set in the real-life workplace, "Undercover Boss" hits U.S. airwaves this Sunday, Feb. 7, putting executives to work in everyday jobs in an era when many companies are cutting budgets and employees are working harder for the same pay, or less.

For O'Donnell, that meant a week of long, unsocial hours cleaning filthy portable toilets, riding a residential garbage truck and joining a fast-moving sorting line in a Waste Management recycling facility. Among his more eye-opening moments was garbage truck driver Janice, who has to urinate in a bottle on her rounds because she has no time or place for a proper bathroom break. "Actually getting out there and doing the job as a first time employee, I have a whole new appreciation of what they do each day," said O'Donnell, who adopted a beard and eyeglasses disguise to work alongside a handful of his workers. "They've got really tough jobs. They work long hours. They start their day at all hours of the morning."

Hey, boss, you're fired!

And then there was the basic job of picking up trash on a windy hillside. After O'Donnell saw his haul repeatedly blown away, he was told by his supervisor not to bother coming back. "It's the first time I have ever been fired, and even though I knew I really wasn't fired, I'm competitive and that really, really bothered me," he said.

O'Donnell said the experience had forced him to adjust some of his company's efficiency measures and to include front line workers more in corporate decision making.

Please hold while the writer recovers from that brilliant flash of the obvious!
What are they teaching in MBA programs these days anyways?
Back to your regularly scheduled blog post.

"It is so important to keep that communication line open, and it's difficult when you have that many layers between yourself and the front line. If you are trying to improve your company, who's the best person to go ask? The people who are facing the problems. Most of the time they've got in their heads some pretty good solutions."

Copyright 2010 Reuters.

Hmmmmmmmmm....Seems that I am not just blowing hot air. Experience always trumps every other factor in the real world. Who do you want doing your brain surgery? The guy who's been there and done that, or the guy who just got out of medical school?

Now, I ask you a question....If 90% of our elected officials in Washington D.C. are lawyers, and have never been anything but a lawyer. What do you think that kind of experience will get you? I've always said there are two people who should never run anything. Lawyers and Accountants. Unfortunately our government is run by lawyers, and corporate America by accountants. Can you imagine what a disaster it would be if accountants were the only people allowed to be a general in the military? "Colonel, you used 11% more rounds in that firefight than were necessary according to the statistics. I want you to investigate who was wasting rounds and I want a report on my desk tomorrow morning!" Absurd isn't it? Is it any less absurd having these people make decisions on Fortune 500 companies or for our Federal Government?

TANGENT ALERT!

This reminds me of something that happened recently. I have friends that were in the process of adopting a child in Haiti. Then the quake hit, and the child's orphanage was demolished. There were many prayers and the information was achingly slow to get, but they eventually found out that while his care taker was crushed by a wall, he was alive as well as all of the other children. Haiti then decided that the best thing for the children was to expedite their release and get them out of the country. In steps the "Bureaucrat". On at least 3 separate occasions the children were either walked or otherwise transported to a point where they could be taken off the island, but were turned back BECAUSE OF PAPERWORK. This is the nature of people like lawyers and accountants. There is nothing more important, to them, than the process.

So, dear friends, remember the next time you look into the eyes of an career bureaucrat/politician, more often or not, if they had a choice between proper paperwork and you....

Kiss your keister goodbye!

On a positive note, all the children from the orphanage got off the island, and once landing in Florida were tearfully welcomed to our country and the loving arms of Lady Liberty....

ooops...

Left out one part....The children came in on the last flight and the government workers refused to stay behind to process.....

What you may ask?

You may have guessed it....

"the paperwork"

...and the children had to be kept over night in a holding area, and the adoptive parents couldn't even see them. The children were hungry and not fed, and the government workers didn't give a damn! They had an important TV show to watch I am sure. On a positive note, the reason why they finally were extricated from the island is because a reporter from CNN completely embarassed our federal government officials over how horribly they were botching this situation and others, and the bureaucrats jumped into action in order to save...

the children?...

No just their own jobs.

God save us, we're surrounded by process zombies!

TANGENT COMPLETE

Getting back to the point of this post...

We really need to start replacing people in Corporate America and Politics with people with "real world" experience. If not, I fear there is no hope for the recovery of our country.

Message to all bosses and corporate heads out there...

Your employees need more than a paycheck. They need to know that they are appreciated. They need to know that you see how hard they work. A little thankfulness goes a long way. A paycheck does not entitle you to whip people within an inch of their life. That's what this CEO learned. When are the rest of the board rooms going to catch on?

Let's put the first nail in the coffin of a thankless America. Everyone take time every day to acknowledge the hard work of the people around you, you never know the effect you can have on some one's career, or private life, by just one well placed compliment.

Pay it forward.....

What is to be learned?

2010-01-19T21:57:00.001-05:00

So the Democrat candidate for the Liberal Lion's seat just conceded in Massachusetts. Many will spin this multiple ways over the next few weeks and months, since this is considered an indication of things to come in the 2010 elections.

What truly was the reason for this unprecedented collapse of Democrat power in Massachusetts? Mass defection of life long Democrats to Republican ranks? Highly unlikely.

In my humble opinion, the main issue that caused this loss was....

Arrogance.

Conceit. Elitism. Pure unadulterated ego. The Republican went door to door, reaching out to everyone he could. The Democrat hardly campaigned. Assuming that the 3-1 ratio of Democrats to Republicans would guarantee her a victory. The Republican campaigned from city to city driving a GM truck with over 200,000 miles. The Democrat candidate made fun of this, literally belittling the opponent for his lack of financial standing. The Republican prepared for the debate. The Democrat seemed like she didn't really care about the debate. The Democrat was rude to reporters, even to the point of her volunteers physically assaulting members of the media, yelling at them for even daring to ask the candidate questions. The Democrat ran attack adds accusing the opponent of being for legislation that would turn away rape victims from hospitals, when the candidate herself was known for leniency on sexual predators.

How could this election have turned out any other way?

The people have grown weary of the sense of entitlement of our political class. The statement was written Tuesday night in bold 20 foot black letters.

ENOUGH!!!

I guarantee you that political pundits and politicians will definitely find any other reason to explain these results.

I guess denial isn't just a river in Egypt anymore.

Nonsense and Insensitivity

2010-01-16T10:20:00.002-05:00

The Nonsense….

Those of you who inhabit Ohio’s 13th Congressional District may have been surprised to find two communications from our Congresswoman, Betty Sutton. Outside of the curious timing of this unprecedented communication from our representative, we are left to wonder at the complete lack of political tact, from this experienced politician. In one of the communications we are regaled with the somewhat candy coated history of the CARS (aka cash for clunkers) initiative that was spear headed by Ms. Sutton. Now I am sure that there were some positive results from the cash for clunkers program, but to announce it an unrivaled success and a model for future government programs, strains credulity. The Federal government purposely skewed the results to hide this program’s failures. During the last quarter of 2009, vehicle sales actually underperformed against market expectations, indicating that the increase in car sales only shifted the time period in which they happened, instead of actually spurring otherwise non-existent sales. According to her statement “The CARS program was about more than just cars. It was about people. It was about our neighbors who depend on auto related jobs to support their families. And it was about our communities that depend on the auto-related taxes to support their schools, police, fire and city services.” They say that the road to perdition is paved with good intentions, and unfortunately this proved true. Out of the top ten vehicles traded in for this program, all ten were made by American auto manufacturers GM, Chrysler, and Ford. Of the top ten purchased vehicles under this program as reported by the federal government, all but two of them were made by foreign owned manufacturers. This had chilling effect in the used car market, by the “unintended consequence” of depressing the supply of used vehicles, thus inflating the price of used vehicles, which has disproportionately affected the poor in our society. Over 600,000 UAW made vehicles were taken off the road, creating a severely depressed need for parts, which will create even further job loss. Edmunds.com, estimates that we paid nearly $24,000 in tax payer funds per vehicle once factoring in expected sales vs. addition sales attributed to CARS. We have also encouraged people to increase their debt levels during one of the most unstable financial periods in our history, further endangering their credit ratings and our financial institutions. We also stand to lose over 1,000 jobs at the Twinsburg Stamping plant, which while outside the 13th Congressional District, employs many members of UAW local 122 that live in her district. Legislators proclaimed that Chrysler duped them into believing that no plants would be closed and that they were as mad as the union at the contract violation. What wasn’t said is that this decision could not have been made without the express permission of the oversight committee assigned by the current administration to oversee the operations and sale of GM and Chrysler. At the very least, we could have halted this action permanently due to the generous bailouts that we, the taxpayers, have provided the trouble car manufacturers. Never mind that this smacks of partisan politics since the stamping plant resides in a district currently held by a Republican representative. Would our representative have fought any harder to save those jobs, if Twinsburg were in her district?

Now for the insensitivity….

The distinguished Congresswoman from District 13 is no doubt aware of the fact that the two communications, paid for by the tax payer, are completely legal. Being a lawyer, she no doubt knew exactly how to issue what amounts to campaign communication, in such a way as to be perfectly within the letter, if not the spirit, of the regulations surrounding the franking privilege. I wonder if our political elite in Washington D.C. fully appreciate the anger and the frustration they create, when they use taxpayer funds to further ensconce their posteriors in Congress. High unemployment, higher taxation, expanding foreclosures, empty plants, vacant store fronts, and anemic bank accounts are now the nightmarish reality of our daily lives. Now she is touting her appointment to the Congressional Task Force on Job Creation. What recommends her for such a position? Has she any experience working in a plant, a union, running a business, balancing a checkbook, making payroll, juggling bills, meeting a budget (now there’s a laugh), fending off unemployment, being laid off, bankruptcy, or fear of creditor’s calls? I wouldn’t count on it. So maybe we can look into her experience as a legislator. According to Recovery.org, Sutton has obtained over $153 million in funds, from the stimulus package, for her district, saving or creating 149.5 jobs, at an average cost of $1.26 million per job. I know you’re thinking “Where do I get one of those jobs?”, but no one is getting paid 1.26 million to fill in potholes and refurbish public restrooms. Even accounting for the overhead of these “jobs”, what we are seeing is a fiction created in order to blind us to their complete failure to live up to their oaths, their promises, and their rhetoric. I remain at a loss to find anything that gives me any hope that she has any idea what she is doing, seeing as she is seemingly unaware of her current failures. Congresswoman Sutton proclaimed that “Not until we end the culture of corruption can we tend to the people’s business. Washington’s failure to create good jobs is a failure borne out of corruption…”

Root out corruption? It’s worse. Reign in the irresponsibly corrupt spending of the previous administration? You’ve quadrupled it. We sent you to improve our economic situation here in Ohio, and deal with the corruption in Washington D.C.

We’re still waiting….

The question is, how long can we afford to?

Justin P. Wooden
Democrat for Congress
Ohio’s 13th Congressional District
Wooden4congress.com

The ground has shifted beneath their feet....do you think they know?

2010-01-09T22:23:00.003-05:00

During a years trek through my burgeoning political activism, community organizing and spending time on the campaign trail; I have had the opportunity to reaffirm some conclusions that I have had about politicians as a whole.

-Most can't spell the word "Constitution" much less adhere to it.

-Speaking clearly and to the point is as alien to them, as a fish trying to breath air.

-They are quite experienced in bloviating for hours on end, without saying anything of note.

-and finally they are completely ignorant of life in the "real world".

I guess it would be wrong to lay all the blame for their naughty behavior at their feet. After all, have we ever given them any indication before that there are consequences for their actions? Did we give them any reason to think that we were even mildly interested in what they did on the job, or what the results of their work were? They are operating now as they always have (maybe more brazen, but really no different). No matter how often our politicians slap us in the face, we find ways of forgiving their arrogant and misguided behavior (as long as they have the right letter behind their name), and assuage our feelings by saying "yeah but at least they're better than (insert evil opposition party member of choice)". The political guide titled "How to kiss babies while stealing their candy"* says on page 53 "Don't worry about upset voters until the month before an election, if you wait long enough they'll forget and move on to something else". Up until now that strategy book has done them quite well.

Here are some other tried and true strategies that have led to a 94% reelection rate amongst our ruling class.

-Never acknowledge someone disagrees with you, just send them a form letter back saying "Thank you for your support on this difficult issue".

-Always demonize the opposing party as "status quo" or "radical" or "regressive", etc.

-Never, and I mean never, answer a question.

-When people give money to you, it's called "gaining support from diverse citizen groups", when someone gives money to your opposition, it's called "Selling out to special interests".

-You're only for freedom and liberty when it agrees with your ideology.

-When you disagree with someone, it's standing on principle. When someone disagrees with you, they are racist, bigot, homophobic, Nazi, evil, Marxist, fascist, or just plain stupid.

-Integrity is for other people.

-Anger is temporary, a federal job is forever.

Now some of you may be reading this post, and thinking yeah those stinking blankety, blank, blank (enter party of your choice)! Funny how it is that whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, you invariably see the other party as fitting this characterization.

I started this post with the the comment "The ground has shifted...." followed by the question "do you think they know?".

I bet you thought I meant the politicians.

You thought wrong.

I have spent time amongst many diverse political action groups, advocating many things, and different candidates, and yes different parties. The one disconcerting problem are those that are still so blindly connected to party that they can not see the non-partisan cliff drawing ever closer.

So the question you need to ask yourself is; are you awake, or do you just think you are?

A wise man once said "Before removing the speck from your brothers eye, remove the plank from your own." How many of us have held our candidates to the same standards we expect of the opposition. How many of us have held our candidates to the same standards we live by every day? Have we become so callused to antics of our political gremlins that we have become infected by lowered expectations? The political "ground" has moved under our feet, and a shaking has started. How many of us think the ground only moved under someone else's feet? Funny thing about earthquakes, they don't discriminate. Those who think that the anger in the populace is only directed at one party or another, may be in the shock of a lifetime.

The times, they are a changin'.....

*There is no book by the name "How to kiss babies while stealing their candy", but I swear they all must be reading from the same book.

Everyone knows it...they just don't want to admit it...

2010-01-03T09:16:00.003-05:00

http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/article/108487/10-things-to-know-about-real-estate-in-2010?mod=realestate-buy

If you read the above link it will take you to an article about 2010's housing market. It'll take a few minutes, but this article is an example of what I will be talking about, so come back after you read it.

In the article they are trying to make it sound like things are going to be great in the housing market. Prices will stabilize. People will be buying again. Government is subsidizing the market. All is good in lollipop land! All is well....no really....trust us....ALL IS WELL.

Kind of reminds me of Animal House near then end where one guys is yelling at the crowd trying to calm everyone down.

*note* It didn't work, and this isn't working either......

Now if you actually read into the article, you will notice the following items.

#1 You need to have a stable job. (duh?)

#2 The economy is showing signs of life, but the unemployment rate is already at 10 percent and expected to go higher. (shouldn't signs of life equate to MORE jobs, not less?...just sayin)

#3 Buying a house makes sense only if you can bank on your income stream. (oh THAT doesn't sound ominous at all!)

#4 They proclaim that during the 3rd quarter housing prices only declined 9%!! (Wow doesn't that make you feel like the whole thing is turning around. That's like them proclaiming that the job market is turning around because we only lost 400,000 jobs instead of 500,000 jobs!)

#5 Mortgage delinquencies up. (?!?!?)

#6 Foreclosures move upstream. (This means more of your "expensive" houses and commercial properties are going to foreclose)

#7 Mortgage rates to rise.

#8 I think you get the point....

So the title of this blog post is "Everyone knows it, they just don't want to admit it."

So what is "it"?

Very simply, things are going to get worse in 2010, not better.

The press doesn't want to admit it and our politicians don't want to know it.

They want all of us to just keep quiet and believe in what they are saying.

So, my dear lemmings, are you just going to shut up and keep marching towards the cliff that they proclaim is the rosey future?

Or are you going to open your eyes to the truth? Regardless of how ugly that truth may be?

Beware of Politicians Bearing Gifts

2009-12-27T07:20:00.002-05:00

The first vote on Christmas Eve in 114 years.

It was historic. This will truly help those 14000 people who, everyday, will lose their health coverage...

Wait getting a note passed to me here....

Hold on....What do you mean the coverage won't start until 2014? I thought that those who were questioning the bill's intent were just callous individuals who didn't care that people were dying due to lack of coverage.

Then why doesn't the coverage start until 4 years later? The TAXES start now.

If we have four years to work on Health Care reform, why don't we slow down this process and get it right, instead of passing nearly 5000 pages (House and Senate bills combined) without going over these bills with a fine tooth comb.

Here's my thought. We'll walk the plank with you on this health care thing if you can do just one little thing.

You must take a 200 question test based on the Health Care bill. If you don't pass with at least 90% (after all you are legislators are you not, shouldn't you know it better than ANYONE?), you must immediately resign your seat in the house/senate. What say you? Any of you have the guts to take on this bet.

Doubt it.

The fact is these legislators in both the house and senate are marionettes.

They don't come up with the ideas.

They don't write the bills.

They don't read the bills.

They are the political version of Pavlov's dogs. Someone rings the money bell and they vote.

So the questions is...who does run Washinton D.C.?

Well one thing is for sure. It's not you, the people.

This just in...we have an interview with Senator Orwell about this historic legislation.

Interviewer: So Senator, some say that you have crammed through this bill without any thought to the views of your constituents. What would you say to them?

Senator Orwell: What a pedestrian view of politics...Oh I'm laughing myself hoarse over here. Where is my $1,000 handkerchief to wipe the tears.

Seriously, you need to get over these quaint notions of representative governance. We have moved beyond the constitution, that antiquated document that gives you notions of liberty. What rubbish.

Interviewer: Some are concerned that this may be a gateway to erosion of personal liberties due to the fact the government will now have control over your physical body through taxation and health care. Your response?

Senator Orwell: Don't worry we'll tell you what you can say. What you can do. We've got this all under control. Pay no attention to the pig tails popping out of the back of our pants or the occasional snorts of laughter. We really do have the common animal's....ahem....person's interests near and dear to our heart.

Now if you don't mind, we're busy finishing off our trough of champagne!

Merry *&%$# Christmas

The new year is almost here folks. Recharge and reload. This is where it gets interesting....

The Federal Tapeworm....

2009-12-13T20:17:00.002-05:00

A Phenomenon has been sweeping the land.....

Cities, counties, & states are laying off workers or bargaining furlough days in order to make budget shortfalls….

Jobs continue to be lost at a pace greater than 400,000 a month….

Our economy is breaking down, and in danger of exceeding the capability of life support….

Yet….

The federal government is growing….

Thriving…

Reaching…

Multiplying…

Check the following symptoms and see if any fit our nation’s condition…

 Nausea-- the sensation of unease and discomfort in the upper stomach and head with an urge to vomit (come on, who hasn’t felt that way about our country’s direction the last 10 years?)
 Weakness (read: economy)
 Loss of appetite (Discouragement, disillusionment, Apathy?)
 Abdominal pain (read:acute pain caused by lack of manufacturing in the “middle”, ie: abdomen, of the country)
 Diarrhea (Money goes right through us without producing anything solid)
 Weight loss and inadequate absorption of nutrients from food (anemic condition of our economy, the shrinking of our local governments, shedding jobs, worsening production, dollar losing value, etc.)

Congratulations…our country has a tapeworm….

3 guesses as to where the infestation is…

Big Business?….no that’s more of just a rash…irritating to be sure, but not life threatening…yet

Big Labor?....no that’s just a minor headache, but nothing contributing to the REAL problem…nothing a pill couldn't fix....

The Federal Government?

Bingo.

You can’t look at what is happening to our country as a list of separate events, or symptoms, but as an indication of an overall problem. (Watch the show House sometime and you will see what I mean...put all of our problems on a dry erase board, and suddenly all becomes clear.)

The reason our local governments can’t make budget is because not enough money is coming in (irresponsible spending not withstanding).

The money isn’t coming into our local governments because people aren’t working and the people will not consent to higher tax rates.

The people won’t consent to higher tax rates, because so much of their money is already eaten up in federal taxes…more is taken by the federal government than state, county, and local governments combined.

Considering that state, county and local governments provide the majority of the services that individuals depend on, this means we are sending much more tax money to Washington D.C. and receiving very little in return.

Our society is in a downward spiral.

Caused by the voracious appetite of an uncaring, Machiavellian worm.

Do you see the correlation between our Federal Government and a parasitic infestation?

Are you laughing, or crying?

If you are laughing, the infestation either hit your brain, or you are past the point of crying.

If you are crying...

What are you going to do to get cure our nation of this parasite?

Global Warming Conspiracy?

2009-11-21T21:13:00.002-05:00

The following is a link to a rather damning article from someone who has gotten a hold of some emails that have been circulating around the Global Warming/Climate Change community and their efforts to hide the decline in global temperatures.

In these emails from scientists all over the world are talking about deleting and altering data in order to hoodwink people looking into their hypothesis. Why would you do this?

I'll give you one guess....

THEY KNOW THEY ARE WRONG....

Their egos are just so wrapped up in this thing that they can't bring themselves to admit that they were wrong, and that many of their colleagues are charlatans. They would rather plunge our GLOBE into an economic dark ages than tell the truth.

Then in the emails they proceed to discuss how to delete emails and make sure they can't be retrieved.

Note to Climate Change Scientists/morons....you might want to invite a computer engineer, network engineer, or server expert into your group...that might have tipped you off to the fact that those emails could still be retrieved...but it is so much funnier this way.

You will laugh and alternately scream with rage at the things that are said in these emails.

Those with heart conditions should consult a physician prior to reading....

Couple of glossary issues...IPCC= International Panel on Climate Change (a UN agency)..."MM's"=group of people involved in issuing Freedom of Information Requests (FOI) for data from the temperature stations.

Enjoy...just don't take it out on your computer or your dog....

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_warmist_conspiracy_tthe_emails_that_really_damn_professor_jones#63704

We are All New Yorkers Again...

2009-11-18T22:20:00.002-05:00

You have got to be kidding me....We're going to take Khalid Sheik Mohammed to trial. In New York City of all places!!!!

Some stray thoughts that hit me today as I was processing this...this...this...oh I can't publish what this is in polite company....

#1 This is an incredibly insensitive thing to do to New Yorkers. First the fly by on the Statue of Liberty...now this...Hey what do you guys have against New York anyways? Must be BoSox fans...

#2 OK...I am not a lawyer....Thank God....but I play one in my nightmares, and correct me where I am wrong, but where in the hell does it say anywhere in the constitution that we have to provide murdering cowards, who are war criminals, any rights under OUR constitution. It's not a "world" document. It's OUR document. It applies to OUR people. Not the enemy. The Nazi's went to military tribunals, so did spies, and collaborators....How do these #$%holes rate better treatment then them?

#3 Lawyer thing again....so we are treating this as a criminal case. Was the prisoner Mirandized. Nope. Were they afforded lawyers before being interrogated. Nope. Where witness statements taken, perp identification lineups attempted, or was evidence procedures in accordance with our criminal justice system followed? Nope, Nope, Nope....So how exactly are we going to win a criminal case, when the prisoners were never processed as criminals. They were processed as enemies. How can you dare to provide these scum with the rights and liberties that our men and women are dieing to protect and preserve in Iraq and Afghanistan?

#4 Referring back to #3....yes they are war criminals. The Geneva Convention states that:
a. Those who fight without sanction of a national government.
b. Do not wear a uniform to differentiate themselves from the general populace.
c. and, as a rule attack civilian soft targets to insite terror.
ARE NOT COVERED BY THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS.
That is why we were able to indefinitely hold them as "unlawful combatants".

#5 I hate to say I agreed with Sen. Graham, but this seems like the most bone headed policy move since...wow...Jimmy Carter and sweatergate....

#6 If they get off on "technicalities" because this moron doesn't understand the difference between our system of justice and war. Whew....I would not want to be him. Dr. Mudd is finally going to have someone lower than him.

#7 I mean really, how much do you have to hate your fellow citizens to do this? It's never been to wise to poke a New Yorker. They poke back....

This all goes to prove that Accountants and Lawyers should never run anything, not even accounting firms and legal firms. Yet our corporations are run by bean counters, instead of visionaries, and our government is run by pin head lawyers, who expended every one of the last brain cells they had in passing the bar.

God Save Us!

We're praying for you too New York. We haven't forgotten. Once more we remember the day when we were all New Yorkers.

May the innocent victims of the tragedy continue to lie in peace.

Finally, a message for our leaders.

In case you've forgotten what it is to be American....

Rebuild the towers. Taller. Much taller. That's how we roll. We don't run from challenges. What better way to stimulate our economy? Build the towers and maybe you'll remember, Eric and Co....what it is to be American again.

P.S....instead of a public trial...how about public waterboarding? We'll sell Pay-Per-View and use those funds to support the families of the victims.

That may not be the law...but damn if that ain't justice.

The approaching storm...

2009-11-15T21:59:00.003-05:00

Take a moment to picture in your mind your least favorite legislator.....

Then imagine said legislator awake late at night, unable to sleep, then read the following...

(Apologies in advance to fans of Edgar Allen Poe, seriously...)

I submit the following for your enjoyment!!!

"The Lemming"

Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered weak and weary,
Over a quaint and curious
volume of constitutional lore,
While I nodded, nearly sleeping,
suddenly there came a squeaking,
As of some one gently squeaking,
squeaking at my office door.
`'Tis some donor,' I muttered,
`squeaking at my office door -
Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember
it was in bleak November,
And every concern-ed member,
found their amendment upon the floor
Fearing of next primary;
vainly I sought to bury
In my books increase of worry,
worrying of voters waxing sore
For It was them I did ignore -
Opening their eyes forevermore.

And the silken sad uncertain
rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with
fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating
of my heart, I stood repeating
`'Tis some donor entreating
entrance at my office door -
Some late donor entreating
entrance at my office door; -
This it is, and nothing more,'

Presently my soul grew stronger;
hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,' said I, `or Madam, truly
your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was sleeping,
and so gently you came squeaking,
And so faintly you came squeaking,
squeaking at my office door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you' -
here I opened wide the door; -
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Deep into that darkness peering,
long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams
no mortal ever dared to dream before
But the silence was unbroken,
and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken
was the whispered word, `Restore!'
This I whispered,
and an echo murmured
back the word, `Restore!'
Merely this and nothing more.

Back into the chamber turning,
all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a squeaking
somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,' said I, `surely that is
something at my window lattice;
Let me see then, what there at is,
and this mystery explore -
Let my heart be still a moment
and this mystery explore; -
'Tis the wind and nothing more!'

Open here I flung the shutter, when,
with many a twitter and a chatter,
In there stepped a humble lemming
of which I swear I've seen before.
Not the least obeisance made he;
not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady,
perched above my office door -
Perched upon a bust of Karl Marx
just above my office door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this furry creature beguiling
my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum
of the countenance it wore,
But it's face be stern and cross,
Lacking warmth like autumn frost.
Outrage in it's eyes embossed
So suddenly my panic soar
'Speak the name by which you're known
Then begone, and leave me door!'
Quoth the Lemming, `Nevermore.'

Much I marvelled this unlearned
rat to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning -
little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing
that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing
Lemming above his office door -
Mouse or beast on the sculptured
bust above their office door,
With such name as `Nevermore.'

Then this lemming I did remember
Alike to those of the 12th September
Have we managed to stoke their temper,
And awaken the patriots of yore?
Nothing further then he uttered -
not a tail or ear he fluttered -
Till I scarcely more than muttered
`Other voters have cried before -
We'll bide our time,
they'll forget the crime
as their anger wanes once more.'
Then the lemming said, `Nevermore.'

Startled at the stillness broken
by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters
is its only stock and store,
Taught, I'm sure, by
some scheming master
who's filled their minds with
tales of disaster
Till the dirges of his hope
that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never-nevermore."'

But the lemming still glowering
Awoke a curiosity overpowering
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat
in front of mouse and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking,
I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what
this ominous rodent of hill and moor -
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt,
and ominous lemming of hill and moor
Meant in squeaking `Nevermore.'

This I sat engaged in guessing,
but no syllable expressing
To the varmint whose fiery eyes
now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining,
with my career at ease reclining
On Nancy Pelosi's assurance, I had
checked my conscience at the door
But with Nancy Pelosi's assurance, I had
checked my conscience at the door
Integrity? A burden Nevermore!

Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed from an unseen dispenser
sprayed by lobbyists whose foot-falls
were hushed upon the tufted floor.
`Wretch,' I cried, `Nancy hath lent thee -
by these minions she has sent thee
Respite - respite and insurance from
the protests of summer before
Drink, oh drink of powers nectar to
forget the protests of summer before
Quoth the lemming, `Nevermore.'

`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! -
prophet still, if rat or devil! -
Whether tempter sent, or whether
tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this -
On this office by horror haunted -
tell me truly, I implore -
Can they, Can they be fooled just as before?
- tell me - tell me, I implore!'
Quoth the lemming, `Nevermore.'

`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! -
prophet still, if beast or devil!
With the book Elinsky taught us,
Bringing socialism to the fore
Tell this soul with panic laden
There be some distant haven
To shelter me from the anger
and the backlash that's in store!
Quoth the lemming, `Nevermore.'

`Be that word our sign of parting,
squeaking fiend!' I shrieked upstarting -
`Get thee back into the tempest
and the Night's unforgiving shore
Leave no paw prints as a token
of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! -
quit the bust above my door!
Take thy nose from out my heart,
and take thy form from off my door!'
Quoth the lemming, `Nevermore.'

And the lemming, never flinching,
still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Marx
just above my office door;
And his eyes have all the seeming
of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming
throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow
that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!

The Abortion Hokey Pokey

2009-11-09T21:40:00.003-05:00

It's in....It's out....It's back in....now it's back out again....

Next step shake it all around....

That's what it's all about....

Hey?!?!

I have heard so much discussion going baaaack and fooorth on what this means. Was it just a back door deal? Answer: Yes

Is it going to be reinserted later? Answer: Yes

How do I know? Answer: Our anti-life representatives and lobbyists would be burning Nancy's plastic face in effigy if it wasn't going to be reinserted.

Does any of this matter? Answer: Sadly no.

I know you're probably saying "Don't you care for the fate of the unborn?"

1st you need to recalibrate your knee jerk reaction, you could kill someone with that.

2nd, the reason it doesn't matter, is that no matter how long or how short the bill is. The bill means nothing.

Like marijuana is the gateway drug, this is the gateway bill. This bill could have 2 words in it "health care" and that would literally be enough to open pandora's box. What we need to understand is that laws are no longer what runs our country. Oh no. Not even close. It's regulations and the courts.

The United States Regulatory Code is much much much larger than the federal budget, the federal tax code, ney, even the federal legal code. It dwarfs them all. That's where the real governance happens. Do you really think that government gives two hoots for what is in that bill? Congress violates IT'S OWN PARLIAMENTARY RULES all the time.

Bill?!? We don't need no stinkin' bill....silly gringo!

When you get down to it most of this is a side show to the real event. The regulatory bodies and czars are the real power brokers in DC. Representatives and Senators are just a pleasant face on the beast that is our ever growing bureaucracy. Keep you eyes on the prize. It's about changing the way government does business. Nothing will stop what is going on but a wholesale change in the leadership and a whooooooole lot of healthy fear up on da Hill.

So don't fall in with the crowd and continue arguing about a bill that isn't a bill, and laws that aren't laws, and a government that rules over us instead of being ruled BY us.

Following the crowds is what lemmings do, and you see how well it works for them.

The Cost of Political Correctness? 14 and counting...

2009-11-08T20:34:00.003-05:00

A man jumps on a table and shouts "Allahu Akbar" and proceeds to shoot indiscriminately, hoping to kill as many "infidels" as possible....

Our Government's take....

"This was not a terrorist attack."

?!?!

Are you kidding me? Then what the @#$! was it? A pie fight? Performance Art?

Websters Dictionary states that Political correctness is "conforming to a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities should be eliminated"

We are told we need to be "tolerant". We need to be understanding. Here's a question. Why are we the only ones who are required to be tolerant? Why must we accept the murderous intolerance of a malignant group of people bent on our destruction?

No, not all Muslims are murderous thugs....but that doesn't mean we should ignore the fact that a death cult has developed out of that community and we need to do whatever we can to eradicate it. "Oh...but Mr. Wooden, we don't want to offend the Muslim community"....Why would they be offended? Is law and order offensive to the Muslim community?

Here's a thought....If you are a part of a community where sexual assault has become common place, are you going to keep your mouth shut? Are you going to cry "discrimination" when police start knocking on doors and patrolling the streets? Or are you going to help?

How much help are we getting from the Muslim community in identifying these monsters? Hmmm??

Quite frankly I am offended at the fact CAIR (Counsel on American-Islamic Relations), unindicted co-conspirators in funding of terrorist operations, continues to be allowed not only to operate within our borders, BUT ARE ACTUALLY GIVEN CREDIBILITY BY THE COURTS AND OUR MEDIA.

This beast was spouting his hatred to anyone and everyone. Even around "comrades" in the military. He had multiple times been accused of trying to convert his patients to Islam during counseling sessions. He literally had complaints filed AGAINST him requesting that he keep his political opinions to himself. He equated terrorist actions, against civilians, to a soldier falling on a grenade to save his fellow soldiers. Why was he still in the military? Why was he still allowed to counsel our soldiers who were suffering due to the stresses of combat?

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

Those two words were more germane to the deaths of 14 people (13 adults and one unborn child), than the guns he used. Where are the intellectuals who lecture us on tolerance? They are oddly silent. How many of them were killed by this murderer? None. How many of them have the guts to tell the parents of the 21 year old female soldier, who was heading home for maternity leave in joyous anticipation of the birth of her first child, that they need to remain tolerant of the death cultists?

No. Why? Those who espouse political correctness are cowards. They sit in ivory towers proclaiming the word of the elite, and how we mere mortals must see the rightness of their moronic and self serving ideas. Yes I said self serving. They say all these nice sounding things in order to gain the acceptance of their fellow intellectuals. Do they believe them? I don't know. How much would they believe them if it had been their daughter killed? I believe that if circumstances can change your principles...they weren't principles in the first place. They were platitudes.

13 heroes and one unborn child.

Yesterdays news or a wake up call to the lemmings?