Our parable for the day, Pilgrims, is:..........

And as promised, spends every waking hour (not on the golf course) thinking of ways to create even more!!

Dear Diary, I survived both the Mayan Calendar prediction of the end of the world and Obamanation's prediction of the same thing over "Sequester"!!

Well well, I woke up this morning, 'Sequestration Day', 2013.... and the sun still rose in the east, my electricity is still on, water is coming out of the faucets.

I open Drudge and discover, that AG Holder admits he might have over spoke about loss of safety, Sec of Ed admits he might have exaggerated about closing schools, etc etc etc .... those thousands of criminal illegal aliens being released turned out to be a trickle of illegals without criminal records.

My My.......   now maybe (I doubt it but) just maybe, grown-ups in both parties will sit down and come to some agreements to how we can save the country from the 'draconian' cuts caused by only RAISING the budget 7.6% instead of 10%... which is what sequestration is all about.

Oh well... one can dream....

Note from Pecoz: I know I posted this a day early, official Sequester Day isn't until tomorrow, Friday, 1 March.... but I am in hopes that positive vibes will bring good results..

I'll be watching for that sunrise tomorrow!!      

Lights, camera ...... Action! Scream!

"Nice kid you've got there, I'd hate to see a train run over it! You get my drift"?

Oh my, at least he learned some tricks from his liberal Hollywoody friends!!

Will the sun rise tomorrow morning, if Sequestration cuts in tonight?

I am so blamed tired of Obamanation and all his half-assedqualified underlings running around screaming the sky is falling, or will fall if this disastrous Sequester (Obama-planned) goes into effect tonight at midnight. 

Homeland Security is gonna release 10,000 illegal alien criminals.... and on and on, you've read them all, I won't repeat the 700,000 job layoffs, falling bridges, babies yanked out of incubators, etc..  Hell, it sounds like our reasons for running Irag out of Kuwait years ago.

Let me instead simply post a graph created and promulgated by the Congressional Budget Office.... a bi-partisan bean counting department.

Take a look at that graph from 2013 to 2023 -- even with my glasses on, I can't find one glitch, hiccup, or even level area where the federal budget doesn't continue to rise over those ten years....... can you?  

From $3.7 TRILLION this year to almost $6 Trillion in automatic increases over ten years.  Does this sound like a budget plan that would cause you to turn off the electricity and water in your house?

Going up, up and away!

Give me a break!   Oh, and please share this graph.....

Breaking news on CNN, the thousands of shootings on the streets of Chicago are the fault of......... gulp.... Congressional Republicans!!

Yessir, you heard it here first.  In Rahm Emanuel's Chicagoland, a city that has been a private fiefdom of the Dims for 80 years, in a state run by Democrats, and the home of Obamanation hisself....  the truth, as CNN and their spokesmen see it, is that Killer city is the fault of the a few Republicans in Washington, who are encouraging Sequester in the last couple of months..

I think this pinhead spilled his morning Mimosa on his talking papers.....

Click here for the story and short video.....

Nobody, but nobody, can get to the gist of the point like award winning editorial cartoonist , Ramirez!

Please note those tiny crumbs on the lower right, they represent the drop in the bucket that Sequester means!!

Obamanation has spent that much running around the country on Air Force One with his accompanying posse of airplanes, doing his Chicken Little Imitation shouting 'The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!'

Warning Warning - Political Correctness may be crossed! You have been warned!

I note with more than nodding 'what's new' attitude that a couple of elementary school teachers in PS #59 in New York City decided to enhance their math classes with historical (social studies) questions. Here are just a couple:

1. “One slave got whipped five times a day. How many times did he get whipped in a month (31 days)?”

2. “In a slave ship, there can be 3,799 slaves. One day, the slaves took over the ship. 1,897 are dead. How many slaves are alive?”

Isn't that cute? These belong in no public school, but certainly not in a reasonably even mixed race class of fourth graders.  60% white, 15% Hispanic, and about 5% black. 

The civil war was over a hundred fifty years ago!!!!!!!!!  Over!!! The massive civil rights bills have been passed one after another...   There are no victims!!

Ooops, no victims? Let's make some then!!!

Let you mind flow freely, think what would happen if they posed these questions?

1. Leroy Jones has 22 members in his Gang. Four were killed in a shootout with the bloods over their crack business. How many gangstas are left in Leroy's gang?

2. Jorge Quinones steals three bicycles a week from a nearby Gringo neighborhood. How many bicycles does Jorge steal in three months?

You get my drift.... the tip of the liberally slanted iceberg that we see is scary, because we know how much of that iceberg we never get to see.   

Sleep with one eye open partner!

(Thanks to the Daily Caller for printing this article)

Can we talk toilets and government? (or is that a redunant question)

I've had a lot to think about these last few days...   Some really deep subjects and some... while not so deep, are equally serious when measuring gob'mint interference in our personal and private lives in this Democratic Republic. 

We've all heard Senator Rand Paul rant in senate committee hearings about the 1.6 gallon flush toilets forced on every citizen by the US Gob'mint.  We all noticed the total 'couldn't care less what you think' shrug from the gob'mint agency witness. Even his Senate committee chairman has been so instilled with gob'mint knows best, that he scoffed at Paul's rant. "Sorry your toilets don't work and you need to flush twice."

So I won't address that -- we've all come to our own conclusions in that regard. 

Here is my rant for today -- Why am I forced to buy a toilet (commode) which by gob'mint edict must sit exactly 14½ inches off the base floor or 16½ inches. Nothing higher, nothing lower and God forbid, nothing in between. I recently replaced both commodes in my house, not because I wanted to, just because the old ones were tired. I was amazed when I got to my local Home Depot and couldn't even special order commodes of my wants and desires. 

Don't get me wrong, I can understand how there should be some normal code for toilet height in public places..... for the benefit of most.... but I am speaking of the privacy of my home bathrooms.  What possible concern could it be to a billion dollar regulatory agency in Washington, or the US Senate. whether I want a ten inch commode for my great grandson to visit , or a 26 incher hi-rise so my old old knees don't have to work quite so hard to get up and down.

I see they sell add/clip on risers for folks with broken hips and such, but they ain't too solid and confidence building I am told. BTW, why ain't they against the law if it's such a terrible thing to vary commode heights. I'm surprised they don't sell them in dark alleys.

I have been bending over my bathroom sink for 30 years with a bad back because the bureaucrats in Washington have decided how tall, short my bathroom sink should be. IN MY HOUSE! 

So my Libertarian genes make me cry out - "Why can't I have a 24 inch or 30 inch commode installed? Why can't I have a bathroom (or kitchen) sink at my comfort level.  Aha! You sheeple say -- 'But what about the next owner when you sell?"

To which I reply, 'If my commodes or sinks are too high or too low for the next owner, then he and I can reach some accommodation in changing them out before our sales contract is finalized!'

Enough, my rant is through, but the next time you lower yourself  below chair height, or bend down to brush your teeth --- be aware.... Freedom....... or gob'mint edict?

And then, Partners, look around you and see how many other little things in your daily life are regulated by those same faceless, nameless, unwatched, gob'mint bureaucrats!!!

I'll bet Donald Trump has a personally designed commode built to exactly the height he wants.............  (a little class envy here)

My apologies, Partners, I went on a sudden (but short) Med Vaycay (no - not Club Med) and just got back.... it's 3 am. so let me post this one perfect cartoon, and I'll be back to life tomorrow.....

This cartoon should be on the front page of every paper in America. Talk about much ado about nothing and all being stirred up by the Rabble Rouser in Chief in the White House trying scare everybody to death, while he won't even admit that he signed the whole Sequester Law himself!!

The taxes collected on the 'rich', although punitive to them, would carry Obamanation's spending for five days! Then what?

When pictures speak louder than words....

Let me see if I have this straight now.......

For five months, the White House has been stonewalling on the events of Benghazi.  To the Congress, to the Press and to the American people.

For five months, the Press has been unconcerned about the White House stonewalling. Not even mildly curious about the missing twenty survivors, where they are, were they interviewed, what did they say, where are the reports?

For three days, Obamanation took a $980,000 golfing weekend in Florida. The press pool was upset, nay - they were outraged at being stonewalled at the golf course gates. No photo ops, no happy chatter... and then when they heard his Sunday round was going to be with Tiger Woods, .... they were apoplectic with 1st Amendment indignation.

So, when the POTUS arrives by Marine One back on the White House lawn last evening, and the reporters were within bleating shouting distance, what was their first question?

"Did you beat Tiger Woods?"

Give me a break! - a pox on both their houses...

As an aside, I am given to understand that some Left coast zillionaires were miffed that they couldn't land their private jets at Aspen because Michelle Antoinette, her posse, and kids arrived there with Air Force 2.5 first and the airport was locked down !!!  Oh the pain!

Some less than positive thoughts about President's Day....

President's Day seems like an apropos time to reflect on the good fortune that America has had in choosing it's presidents over the last couple of hundred years. We've had great ones, starting with George Washington himself, we've had mediocre ones, and a couple of pretty lame ones ...

But for the most part, our presidents have risen to their position and to the occasion, Harry Truman comes to mind.  

But our Presidents are only as good as the citizens that elect them, and with few exceptions the American voters have done well.  One of those exceptions occurred in 2008.

Fifty-three percent of the voters that went to the polls decided they wanted 'hope & change' even though they were never told exactly what that was. Thus, they elected to the highest office in our land, an inexperienced Illinois state senator who was so afraid of leaving a paper trail, that he managed to vote 'Present' 129 times during his brief tenure in that office. 

Five full months ago, when the al qaeda attack on Benghazi occurred on September 11th, during the full eight hours of the attack, this President didn't even answer 'present' on his telephone. He neither took any calls from his Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, or Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, nor made any offering Commander In Chief's advice. He then left early in the morning (skipping the Daily Intel Briefing, again)  for Las Vegas for a campaign stop. 

This is not my opinion, this is the testimony sworn to under oath in Congress.

President Obama didn’t make any phone calls the night of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House said in a letter to Congress released Thursday. “During the entire attack, the president of the United States never picked up the phone to put the weight of his office in the mix,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, who had held up Mr. Obama’s defense secretary nominee to force the information to be released. Mr. Graham said that if Mr. Obama had picked up the phone, at least two of the Americans killed in the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi might still be alive because he might have been able to push U.S. aid to get to the scene faster. The White House has said Mr. Obama was kept up to date on the attack by his staff, though after being alerted to the attack in a pre-scheduled afternoon meeting he never spoke again with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin E. Dempsey or then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
This empty suit that the voters returned to office just four months ago has since sworn that he will not rest until we all have jobs, the economy is in full swing, guns are gone, the waters recede, global warming cools, and we all have cake to eat - if not bread. 

So, I guess we can assume that these events have all come to pass as he spends the weekend in Florida golfing  with Tiger Woods and Butch Harmon (@$1000 per hour) and Michelle Antoinette drinks cafe mocha latte's on the patio of the plush hotels overlooking the Aspen ski slopes.... 

He barely made it back from that multi-million dollar vaycay in Hawaii to catch AF One to Florida didn't he?

A Happy Sunday morning thought......

I had this thought this morning.....

During the last 4+ years, Obamanation has managed to campaign Nine months a year (in between golfing), officially vacation Two months a year (with regular golfing) and preside in the White House One month a year ( with weekly visits to the local AFB golf courses).

During this time, with Valarie Jarret, Van Jones and their ilk running the country, we have managed to go six trillion dollars deeper in debt, found no solution to job creation or the nation's economy!

How much worse off would we be today if His BO'ness decided to work full and regular office hours?   It pales the mind......

Breaking news.... White House prepares for belt tightening with sequester coming.....

In the face of possible budget constraints, and in their concern for our economy, it has just been announced that Obamanation will fly (by hisself) on Air Force One for a weekend of golf and golf instructions from the most expensive coach in the land, Butch Harmon, who he is flying in accompanied by his son, also a coach.  Ka`ching$$$

Not to be outdone in the cost cutting White House, Michelle Antoinette is grabbing the kids and flying out on Air Force Two (or Three) to Aspen, Colorado to parade around in her ski suit. Poor gal has got to be ready for a break, it's been about three weeks since she returned from her extended multi-million (tax) dollar vacation in Hawaii!

She will be joined by VEEP Bite-Me,  who will probably have to take which ever plane Michelle leaves behind. 

Since you are spending your own money, not mine, how will you spend Presidents Holiday Weekend?  What's that you say, you'll be parked on your couch watching the Golf Channel or ABC's World of Sport re-runs of ski jumping?   Oh, the agony of it all!

I'll bet Carney will tell us today in the daily briefing that neither trip will cost us 'one thin dime'!!!

SOTU Address - Over an hour of promised benefits, and the continued promise that they won't cost ONE THIN DIME, summarized by, "Trust Me!"

And how many of his most fervent supporters, those in the 47% group that pay nothing and receive everything just lapped that up. Probably had note pads out to make a list of what to apply for next!

On unhappy fact, Obamanation din't lie, it won't cost us 'one thin dime' ----- it'll cost us billions and billions of thin dimes and greenbacks and borrowed Chinese yuan!!

How did you treat your Valentine yesterday??

Your president decided to treat Michelle Antoinette to a special dinner at the smallest, but most expensive restaurant in DC. Called 'Minibar', it seats only twelve folks, and the meal, and the twenty dish menu -  and the price is fixed.

That is, the price for tasting approximately 20 small dishes is $225, not including tax and tip, while wine pairings will set you back $75, $120, or $200. If we assume a mid-range $120 for wine, the total comes to $345 per person, or $690 for two. Add in Washington’s 10 percent restaurant dining tax and a 20 percent tip and we’re at $910.80 for dinner.

 I'm not even going to question if they were health foods, or should be served school cafeterias......   but somehow this morning, I feel a little lighter in the pocket, 'cause I don't reckon Obamanation reached his wallet and pulled out a 'Grover Cleveland'  to pay for this meal himself.  

Any of you recollect him and Michelle stepping out for a thousand dollar dinner during the recent campaign? Naw, I din't think so...

If they were from Arkansas instead of Chicagoland, some might think of them in the Southern white trash vernacular...  but they ain't, so call 'em what you will.

(Thanks to Keith Koffler at Whitehousedossier.com)

Chris Kyle, Texas National Hero, laid to rest...

With all the insanity in the San Bernardino mountains the last couple of days in the search and police killing of Christopher Dorner and the 24/7 news coverage it received;

With all of the insanity in the District of Columbia for the annual Ruling Class 'Dog & Pony Show' we know as the State of the Union speech;

You may have missed the Monday Memorial service in Cowboy Stadium for a true American hero, Chris Kyle.... and the accompanying funeral procession down Interstate 35 on Tuesday, said to be the longest such in U.S. History.  

A lot I could say - but here, but this link (and it's links) pretty well say it all!

RIP Chris Kyle ...
from millions of your fellow veterans.....

Needs no introduction...!

"I see yer little wife has a $187K per year gob'mint job, be a shame if she was laid off, get my drift?"

It's all Woodrow Wilson's fault!!

There are many reasons to dislike or at least, not admire, that great progressive of the last century, President Woodrow Wilson.  I would submit, that in addition to his other failures, his greatest negative legacy was his return to the personally delivered 'State of the Union' address to congress each January or February. A practice wisely discontinued by Thomas Jefferson in 1801.

Last evening, as I was NOT watching Obamanation repeat the Chinese Fortune cookie cliches of the last four years (I opted to watch Pawn Stars and discover the current value of a 1794 Sharpes Buffalo Gun, of much more import) I silently cursed that POTUS of a hundred years ago.  

Two hours plus of prime time posing and posturing by our Washington ruling class and the network sycophants sucking up to them.  Nothing new was offered (I checked this morning), no new coming together occurred, bid'ness as usual. The Parties blame each other, the deficit continues, the National debt rises, and his BO'ness and Michell Antoinette get to fawn over some luckless people "props", about whom they will never meet or ask about again!

This annual charade has all the pomp, ceremony, and deep meaning of the Queen's annual address to the British Parliament.  At least she was honest, and called one year, "annus horribilis"...... of course that was all about her and her wayward kids. Not the state of the nation.  Come to think of it, wasn't Obamanation's speech much the same.... folks jest ain't payin' him no never-mind like they should!

But like most narcissists in high places, he'll get us for that bad attitude eventually!

Ole' Joe don't make sense even when he ain't making gaffes!

Just in case y'all think that his was just a Joe Bite-me typical gaffe, it wasn't.. These are his actual words as stated at a White House Conference with the ARA. Their lawyer, James Baker heard and reported them.

Biden: We need more gun laws because we don’t have time to enforce the ones we have

Joe Biden headed up the task force on gun violence that supposedly wanted to hear all perspectives before proposing a new raft of laws that would restrict access to weapons, magazines, and ammunition. According to one participant, one reason that Biden and Barack Obama want new laws is because they don’t have time to enforce the laws already on the books — specifically, the laws relating to background checks that Biden and Obama want expanded:
During the National Rifle Association’s meeting with Vice President Joe Biden and the White House gun violence task force, the vice president said the Obama administration does not have the time to fully enforce existing gun laws.
Jim Baker, the NRA representative present at the meeting, recalled the vice president’s words during an interview with The Daily Caller: “And to your point, Mr. Baker, regarding the lack of prosecutions on lying on Form 4473s, we simply don’t have the time or manpower to prosecute everybody who lies on a form, that checks a wrong box, that answers a question inaccurately.”

(Thanks and a Tip O' the Stetson to my vet pal Al in the Peoples Republic of MD)

Teddy Roosevilt's 'bully pulpit' has been morphed into 'Bully in the Pulpit' by this prez!

I'll take this hour to insult every Republican in the room, and I want you to just sit there! Understand?

Apparently nobody ever taught BHO that you get more done by talking with people instead of down at them.  

I recollect his admonishments of the Supreme Court Justices two years ago at the SOTU address. They had no recourse, they had to just sit and squirm through it. Although it is noted that not all returned last year. 

We all remember his very personal attack on GOP Budget Chairman Paul Ryan on national TV in a setting where Ryan could only sit and squirm. I've noticed that Chairman Ryan has never returned for another one of Obamanation's lofty tirades. 

And now I am thinking about tonight's forecast State of the Union Address. Will our Dear Leader address the state of the nation, offer solutions to national problems, or use the hour to berate the GOP members of congress sitting there uncomfortably squirming. 

In my finest dream - I envision that upon the fading echo of his first insult, slight, put down, that the entire GOP delegation from both Houses will rise quietly in unison and exit the chamber.. 

Would they take some heat? You bet! The MSM would castigate them -- their responses to the mikes shoved in their faces should be measured and quiet. "We came to listen to a plan to help restore this nation to fiscal prosperity and a land of growing jobs. Not to be lectured like school children with 'It's my way or the highway.' 

Whatever else --- it would be a State of the Union Speech that the Nation would never forget...   the night the GOP stood up on it's collective hind legs and said 'NO MAS!!"

Alas - it's only a dream....

Take two swallows and call me in the morning!

Color me doubtful.....

Every time I surf to a new new site, I am hit in the face with the meme of the week;

'Hillary Clinton is the most popular political figure in America"

These articles (even in the so called right wing blogs) start quoting numbers from various polls which show that her approval rating is even higher than that of our Dear Leader Obamanation. 

Here is a link to just one of them.

This reminds me of one of Hellary's more famous lines when she was the carpetbagging Senator from the State of New Cuomo....when interviewing  General Petraeus;  reading these reports of her popularity require "willing suspension of disbelief". 

I am also reminded of her ill fated primary campaign in 2008 when she reminded Americans of the importance of having someone in the White House who could take and handle those emergency '3 AM' telephone calls.   Well, I reckon last September 11th, she got her '3 AM' telephone call from Benghazi!  

And she didn't come out from under the bed for two months..  when in typical fashion of the Clinton household, she carelessly announced to Congress that it was old news and 'what possible difference could it make now' that our Ambassador and three other Americans died for lack of support from her Department of state.

Most popular political figure in America? Even though I have lost all confidence in an informed electorate in this country , I find this very hard to believe!

We have four dead Americans... What difference at this point does it make?"

Dimmocrats are not Happy People....

Dim Senators Baucus, Reid, Mikulski & Murray

Even when they are proposing tax increases on the evil rich and their corporate jets, they just can't seem to smile.  This picture this morning accompanied an article about their proposal to save the Nation's $16 Trillion dollar debt problem by squeezing $4 billion more in taxes out of corporations.

Oh yeah, and raise the taxes on that oil and gas you don't really need.... but should pay more for... er, something.

Click here for the rest of the sad story, it's such old news, coming around again, I can't bear to report it....  

Smile!!

Obamanation's Army

This ain't the military that your's truly served in for 21 years!!!!!

(With a Tip O' the Stetson to Chip Bok!!)

So God Made a Liberal.......

On Tuesday, (four posts down) I linked you to two great clips of Paul Harvey. The "So God Made a Farmer" as used in the Superbowl commercial and his original classic; "If I Were The Devil"...     both outstanding I think. 

But a feller who calls hisself 'Soopermexican' has just released a 2 minute video parody entitled, "So God Made a Liberal"....  I think it is humorous, truthy, clever and on point - what do you think?


 

LA Killer Police Officer's left wing legacy...

LA Ladies delivering newspapers riddled by police bullets!

Strange times in Las Angeles this week. 

Y'all have heard that an ex LA cop has gone on a rampage, started killing cops, oh, and by the way, left a long 'manifesto'.

What you haven't heard is that this feller is sooo far to the left that he makes Chris Rock look like a Republican.  The MSM has carefully redacted what they quote from his 22 page manifesto to make sure that we don't get the drift. He is pro-Feinstein and gun Control. A big fan of Hillary Clinton, worships at the feet of Obamanation, and thinks strict gun control should be the law of the land. 

Speaking of gun control, you probably wonder why I posted that picture.  If you look real, real close (click on it) you'll notice several bullet holes in the back of that blue pickup. Two ladies were delivering newspapers in that truck, but had the misfortune of driving a pickup truck that resembles the one that ex-officer Chris Dorner (and now wanted killer) was said to be driving.  

How untrained and out of control must those cops have been to start shooting at that similar truck driven by two women. By the way, neither were killed but they were both wounded by the gunfire.  Several newspapers were blown away as well. 

Even though the complete and unedited Manifesto that Dorner left behind is being withheld by the MSM.... here is a link to the whole original litany. Admitted, it's long, but you can skip through the slower parts and get a real feel for this obviously bright young man. 

I have a feeling that Christopher Dorner will not survive the arrest procedure by LA cops, what do you think?

I also have the feeling that if his Manifesto was a hard right wing writing -  blasting everybody on the left instead of loving and praising them..... even Matthews and Piers Morgan....... that it would be the lead story on every newscast you see or read...   again, what do you think?

The History of Aprons.....

I don't think our kids know what an apron is.

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few.  It was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.

It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.  From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.  And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.  Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.  Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.  In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.  When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

People would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.  But you know what?  I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron.  
Except maybe .. love....

(borrowed from SassyScrub.com)

Time to let the can roll into the gutter......

Four over four years, Obamanation has been playing Brinkmanship 101 with the Republicans in congress.  Maybe it's time for the game to end. 

It's time for Mitch McConnell and John Boehner to stand up on their hind legs and shout, "No Mas!!" 

His BO'ness is now politely asking them to join him in kicking the can down the road once again... 'let's just raise taxes and pretend were are making cuts just for a few more months', he says with much less sneer that he has for the last four years. 

Sequester seems to make the strongest politician quake....   why? Life will go on, events will still event, and perhaps with serious spending cuts (if even for a little while) may bring sanity back to Washington. He got his huge tax revenue increases, he just keeps forgetting about instituting those pesky cuts. 

Obamanation's Legacy?

Let sequestration begin...  let the chips fall where they may....  before it's to late to reverse the flood of damage being inflicted on this country.  

Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Reid have both proven to be the most inept, unskilled, partisan politicos in the history of the Congress... yet their constituencies in Nevada and San Francisco keep re-electing them and sending them back. 

If Mitchell and Boehner were to stand up and shout, "We're maddern' hell and we ain't gonna take it any more. It's your problem, you fix it, we ain't gonna enable you any more!"
The good folks of Kentucky and of the 18th District of Ohio would probably hail them as heroes and send them back to Congress in a tsunami of votes.  The hell with what the blue state voters think - they don't get to vote! Besides, their states are already bankrupt!

History won't remember those two gentlemen, but it sure as hell will remember who was at the helm when we almost went over the brink!!

(In the spirit of truthiness, I've got to point out that these comments were inspired by a great item by DrJohn on FloppingAces)

About that Paul Harvey Commercial at the Super Bowl....

If you haven't seen the Ram Truck commercial broadcast on Sunday's Super Bowl, you gotta be the last one in the country that hasn't .... but just in case .... here is a link to it:

And God Made A Farmer

Now then, Partners, I'm not sure how many real Paul Harvey fans there are out there, but those of you who are, will remember this Saturday editorial just as well. I'll provid both the video link and the script so you can follow along.  Try to tell me he didn't hit it spot on!!!

 Here is the script for that editorial:

“If I were the devil … If I were the Prince of Darkness, I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness. And I’d have a third of it’s real estate, and four-fifths of its population, but I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — Thee. So I’d set about however necessary to take over the United States. I’d subvert the churches first — I’d begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: ‘Do as you please.’
 
“To the young, I would whisper that ‘The Bible is a myth.’ I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what’s bad is good, and what’s good is ‘square.’ And the old, I would teach to pray, after me, ‘Our Father, which art in Washington…’

“And then I’d get organized. I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting, so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I’d threaten TV with dirtier movies and vice versa. I’d pedal narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.

“If I were the devil I’d soon have families that war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves; until each in its turn was consumed. And with promises of higher ratings I’d have mesmerizing media fanning the flames. If I were the devil I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions — just let those run wild, until before you knew it, you’d have to have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door.

“Within a decade I’d have prisons overflowing, I’d have judges promoting pornography — soon I could evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and then from the houses of Congress. And in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and deify science. I would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls, and church money. If I were the devil I’d make the symbols of Easter an egg and the symbol of Christmas a bottle.

“If I were the devil I’d take from those, and who have, and give to those wanted until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And what do you bet? I could get whole states to promote gambling as thee way to get rich? 

I would caution against extremes and hard work, in Patriotism, in moral conduct. I would convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on the TV is the way to be. And thus I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In other words, if I were the devil I’d just keep right on doing on what he’s doing. Paul Harvey, good day.”

You are more than welcome, thank you for taking the time to read it, I feel I need to say nothing more!!!

I spotted a poster that speaks volumes......

I reckon it's all a matter of priorities and keeping our eyes off of the pea in the national shell game he's playing on us.....  What do you think?

Newtown (Sand Hook) Testimony you didn't see or hear..on TV

The MSM was so busy editing doctoring  the various video clips from the congressional hearing, that they just didn't have time to share Mr Bill Stevens' testimony.  In his brief two minutes, he made it clear that - his daughter was safer at home than at school -- and that the reason for that was because he exercised his constitutional right to own and maintain arms and weapons.

 "You want to take my rights are away, lets go to court," Steven's said. "But criminals and tyrants, tyrants especially, beware. Lockdown is not an option at the Stevens residence and 911 will be dialed after the security of my home has been established. Why is that same security my daughter enjoys at home with her dad not available at school in Newtown? That is what you should be considering, not making her dad a criminal. Charlton Heston made the phrase 'from my cold dead hands famous' and I will tell you here today, you will take my ability to protect my Victoria from my cold dead hands."



 I think he made his points clearly, succinctly and on point! It's not the guns, nor the number of guns.... it's the person. And the Constitution does not call for registration, permits or background checks....   a serious father with serious thoughts.

I told you that you didn't see this on your evening news!!

SecDef Hagel, an error, an Obamanation practical joke on the country - or a simple mistake?

If reaction to Benghazi was slow with Panetta & Clinton, what will happen to a 3 a.m. call to Hagel and Heinz-Kerry?

SECDEF Hagel? An error or part of the plan?

I don't know about y'all, but I had the misfortune of watching the Senate hearings with SECDEF (nominee) Hagel.....  and it scared the britches off me.

The man is obviously barely 'compos mentis', cannot articulate his thoughts, does not know Obamanation's positions, has never managed anything bigger than his checkerboard, has a naked resume`.... and he is the BEST person in this country of 300 million souls to fill this job according to our brilliant POTUS?

Since 2009, we've seen our best generals fired or relieved, we've seen the military once again used for social experimentation - DADT - eliminated, women in the foxholes, a total go-along-to-get-along party hack as Defense Secretary - who has overseen the decimation of our armed forces and now?

In case you missed his hearing, here is one of the gentler parts..... you watch, you be the judge! Is there another agenda of which we are not aware?

Remember Ross Perot's reference to 'that great sucking sound'?

A couple of years ago, I referred y'all to an almost historic cover article in the American Spectator regarding the 'ruling class' of the USA. It was well written and well received, and an eye opener to some.

Here is a link to a shorter (not as important, maybe) article posted there this week. When you have five minutes, to read five short pages, you'll find lots of food for thought...  
or not.... You read it.... you decide!

Another crazed shooter runs amok

Normally, when I come across a story like this, I search a couple of sources and then if it seems interesting, I put my own spin on it when I write it..... but this article by Jim Treacher is so spot on, I'm not changing a word!

Crazy gun nut shoots man just for breaking into her house

Posted By Jim Treacher On 12:44 PM 01/31/2013 @ 12:44 PM In DC Trawler,DC Trawler | No Comments

Everybody knows that guns don’t protect people. More guns = more gun crimes. Like this one!
KPRC in Houston:

MAGNOLIA, Texas – A home invasion suspect was arrested at a hospital after a mother shot him during the crime at a Montgomery County home, deputies said Wednesday.
Erin, who asked to be identified only by her first name, told Local 2 she was putting her 6-year-old son to bed when she heard a loud noise coming from her bedroom on Mink Lake Drive Friday night…
Erin said she turned around and saw three masked men, pointing a gun right at her…
“Somehow the way it happened, as they were going down the hallway, I told them sometimes I keep money under the mattress, which is not true. But I needed to get to where my gun was,” she said.
The men followed her to her bedroom.
“I was pretending to move the mattress. It’s really heavy, so I was trying to move their attention to the mattress because they wouldn’t take their eyes off of me. I needed a split second for them to take their eyes off of me. I said, ‘It might be under here.’ They started talking to each other in Spanish and then a roll of duct tape came out,” said Erin…
“They all turned around and looked. I grabbed my gun, cocked it, I turned and shot him right in the stomach,” said Erin.

I think it’s pretty obvious what happened here. Some hardworking gentlemen from the Hispanic community were just trying to make a living selling duct tape door-to-door. They were going for the hard sell because times are tough, especially when you’re a minority. Then this demented hillbilly racist went nuts and just started shooting at them. And because it’s Texas — gun-wacko central! — they arrested the victim.
Are you happy now, Wayne LaPierre? Are you satisfied?

(Hat tip: William Jacobson)
P.S. Why Does Self Magazine Think Women are too Dumb or Crazy to Own a Gun?

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Hellary goes out with a whine and a 'plaint!

As reported by that unbiased AP:

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is leaving office with a slap at critics of the Obama administration's handling of the September attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. She told The Associated Press that critics of the administration's handling of the attack don't live in an "evidence-based world" and their refusal to "accept the facts" is unfortunate and regrettable for the political system.

In her last one-on-one interview before she steps down on Friday, Clinton told the AP that the attack in Benghazi was the low point of her time as America's top diplomat. But she suggested that the furor over the assault would not affect whether she runs for president in 2016.

Just as a reminder, this is the same half of the Clinton Liar's Pack that as a NY Senator in 2007, when questioning General's Petraeus and Crocker, voiced her now memorable: 

"You have been made the de facto spokesmen for what many of us believe to be a failed policy" in Iraq, Clinton said. "Despite what I view is your rather extraordinary efforts in your testimony both yesterday and today, I think that the reports that you provide to us really require a willing suspension of disbelief."

Now, here we are 6 years later, we heard her strained testimony, phony tears, and the infamous cry, "Four Americans are dead, what difference, at this point, does it make now?"

I know some pretty honest folks from Arkansas, so it can't be in the water there -- just like the meaning of 'is' --- ain't!