Thank you Lord,
Had you not blessed me with a micro-managing, governing body of hardly elected "officials". I might not have been able to make a decision for myself. In fact I know I am incapable of making a good sane decision. But for the grace of God I have Government® to guide, nay, marshal me through my meager existence.
I often find myself inadequately prepared to confront my conscious reality. Were it not for Government® I would have most likely have perished before I was conceived.
They often know best what I should do, consume, say and think. Government® protects me from my own defective thoughts and decisions.
God Bless Government®
Amen
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Monday, November 28, 2005
I haven't updated my blog in sometime now.. so much has taken place since then. BUT I've been busy working my ass off trying to make a living instead of staying at home and complaining about the state of the union. I generally have to say that is the primary difference between liberals and conservative thinking people.. the "silent majority" is just too damn busy WORKING and taking care of their families to be out protesting and lobbying.
I'm hoping to have some time this Christmas to post some opinions of recent events and issues.
I'm hoping to have some time this Christmas to post some opinions of recent events and issues.
Friday, July 22, 2005
Been out of it..
I haven't had a chance to post a new entry for nearly a month now. So much has taken place in that time I fear I won't be able to cover just a drop in the bucket...
I'm also working on a new site to host this blog and move over to my own domain.
In the past month I've discovered a new career I'll be pursuing. More on that later.
I'm also working on a new site to host this blog and move over to my own domain.
In the past month I've discovered a new career I'll be pursuing. More on that later.
Thursday, June 30, 2005
"But I said no to that pay increase!" "oh well I'll spend it anyway"
So Congress "voted" to give themselves a raise. AGAIN No wait I'm sorry they don't like to call it that. It's a "Cost of living increase"
And they didn't vote for it.. no they just didn't vote to stop the automatic increase. And actually many of them DID vote against it. Convieniently the day after the deadline. "Ooops my bad I missed the deadline, but hey I DID vote it down." :rolleyes:
Wouldn't you like to be able to just vote yourself in a $3,100 per year pay increase?
Maybe its just me but I think they are already overpaid. I want my represenatives to be motivated by ideas not a paycheck.
And at $165,200/yr (and remember they are like teachers they don't work a full year)
I see that as a motive to get into office. That doesn't even include all the HR benefits and travel benefits.
I always viewed public service as just that SERVICE, not public fleecing.
Then we are told that its expensive to live in D.C.
Hmm why not have a secure apartment complex for all of our represenatives. They don't need to have a nice huge house just to go into work. Not only would that save them money on commuting, but then the pay that they receive would go further to support their family and homes in their home state.
This automatic COLA increase came about in 1989 when they voted to get it in lieu of hitting the paid lecture circuit. At that time they were paid $89,500/yr
Am I the only one that thinks they should be working for us, not out moonlighting.
If you don't think your getting paid enough then stay in the private sector where your free to ask whatever you like and you get paid based on worth.
I also think they should be subject to performance increases just like the rest of us.
The matter of congressional pay increases has had a long history of uncertainty. The 27th amendment was proposed in 1789 and didn't make it into the original Bill of Rights.
"No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."
It took nearly 200 years for it to finally be ratified in 1992.
Of course all it says is that a pay increase is to go into effect following an election.
But don't you think any increases in pay should be determined by their constituents?
How about the Senate. Most of the Demoncrats that did nothing but block progress from taking place shouldn't get an increase in pay. They weren't doing their job. And don't try and tell me the threat of a fillibuster is doing their job. There was a time when a fillibuster involved the reading of the phonebook or whatever they could and as soon as they stopped. They had to get off the soapbox. But now they just have to threaten the other side with a fillibuster and it acts as one?? So, that's lazy in my view.
And what about people like John Kerry, he pretty much dropped his obligations as a Senator to go for another job. I have a real problem with that.
Just as the President shouldn't spend as much time campaigning while he's on the job. Some might argue that its part of their job to campaign for their reelection.
What do you think YOUR boss would do if you left halfway into the fiscal year to try and get another job? While you continued to collect your paycheck.
Do you think its right to be spending half of the fiscal year telling everyone your the right man for the job next year, rather than just DOING your job to the best of your abilities, and letting your boss decide if your the man based on your actions.
I guess I always thought those that wanted to serve their country as a politician did so because they have ideas lots of ideas.
Not because they have a knack for picking apart others, or because they just want their finger in the cookie jar...then once they get one they devote all their time to remaining in there because the cookies are so good.
We are also at war. It's time for all of us to take make some sacrifices in order to preserve our future.
I'm not against them getting pay raises like the rest of us, when we deserve it. But the automatic pay increase needs to end. And all pay increases need to be approved by those who judge their performance. We the People
And they didn't vote for it.. no they just didn't vote to stop the automatic increase. And actually many of them DID vote against it. Convieniently the day after the deadline. "Ooops my bad I missed the deadline, but hey I DID vote it down." :rolleyes:
Wouldn't you like to be able to just vote yourself in a $3,100 per year pay increase?
Maybe its just me but I think they are already overpaid. I want my represenatives to be motivated by ideas not a paycheck.
And at $165,200/yr (and remember they are like teachers they don't work a full year)
I see that as a motive to get into office. That doesn't even include all the HR benefits and travel benefits.
I always viewed public service as just that SERVICE, not public fleecing.
Then we are told that its expensive to live in D.C.
Hmm why not have a secure apartment complex for all of our represenatives. They don't need to have a nice huge house just to go into work. Not only would that save them money on commuting, but then the pay that they receive would go further to support their family and homes in their home state.
This automatic COLA increase came about in 1989 when they voted to get it in lieu of hitting the paid lecture circuit. At that time they were paid $89,500/yr
Am I the only one that thinks they should be working for us, not out moonlighting.
If you don't think your getting paid enough then stay in the private sector where your free to ask whatever you like and you get paid based on worth.
I also think they should be subject to performance increases just like the rest of us.
The matter of congressional pay increases has had a long history of uncertainty. The 27th amendment was proposed in 1789 and didn't make it into the original Bill of Rights.
"No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."
It took nearly 200 years for it to finally be ratified in 1992.
Of course all it says is that a pay increase is to go into effect following an election.
But don't you think any increases in pay should be determined by their constituents?
How about the Senate. Most of the Demoncrats that did nothing but block progress from taking place shouldn't get an increase in pay. They weren't doing their job. And don't try and tell me the threat of a fillibuster is doing their job. There was a time when a fillibuster involved the reading of the phonebook or whatever they could and as soon as they stopped. They had to get off the soapbox. But now they just have to threaten the other side with a fillibuster and it acts as one?? So, that's lazy in my view.
And what about people like John Kerry, he pretty much dropped his obligations as a Senator to go for another job. I have a real problem with that.
Just as the President shouldn't spend as much time campaigning while he's on the job. Some might argue that its part of their job to campaign for their reelection.
What do you think YOUR boss would do if you left halfway into the fiscal year to try and get another job? While you continued to collect your paycheck.
Do you think its right to be spending half of the fiscal year telling everyone your the right man for the job next year, rather than just DOING your job to the best of your abilities, and letting your boss decide if your the man based on your actions.
I guess I always thought those that wanted to serve their country as a politician did so because they have ideas lots of ideas.
Not because they have a knack for picking apart others, or because they just want their finger in the cookie jar...then once they get one they devote all their time to remaining in there because the cookies are so good.
We are also at war. It's time for all of us to take make some sacrifices in order to preserve our future.
I'm not against them getting pay raises like the rest of us, when we deserve it. But the automatic pay increase needs to end. And all pay increases need to be approved by those who judge their performance. We the People
Friday, June 24, 2005
A keystone has fallen..actually ripped from its placement by SCOTUS
In one of the most deplorable of acts by the Supreme Court. In one decision they ripped one of the keystones in the foundation of this once great country right out.
from the 5th amendment
"nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
granted it was a tight 5-4 vote. But even that scares me. Why would 5 of them have no clue as to what the Constitution says. These are Supreme Court judges for blank sake.
Where in that simple line, that even a 3rd grader could understand, does it say for public benefit?
We have talked for sometime about going down a slippery slope. Well my fellow Americans. We are in the mud.
You realize this opens the doors to all kinds of government thievery. If the government can now take your home or business or any form of private property simply because they feel they can generate more tax revenue with a mall or an office complex.
Then how long will it be till tax exempt churches and private schools are bulldozed in favor of a tax revenue generating facility. Oh yeah its already begun...
Franklin Township
The Kelo case is just the tip of the iceberg. Soon we will see government flexing its muscles in every nook and cranny saying one piece or another of property/land is more beneficial to the public if it were say, a casino. Since that would provide two angles of revenue. And let us not forget that this is not about taking the land for the government to manage. They are stealing it from you to give to a developer, another private entity.
And this is not the only form of theft under the guise of public interest going on.
In Fairbanks, AK the tribal natives formed a corporation and are working on taking land from private citizens there under the shady promise of building a "cultural center" Never mind that Fairbanks was founded by whitemen during the gold rush and it never was a native settlement.
They even secured federal funds for the project, but will be tax exempt seeing as they are natives and all. They noticed one cabin in the location qualifies for historical preservation. Just who's history are they attempting to preserve?
Of course we all know how well government is at managing "investment property"
KC has the notorious Union Station. A failed business venture on the part of the local government that as it nears bankruptcy they want to acquire and allocate more tax payer funds to "fix" it. Uh HELLO McFLy you ran it in the ground in the first place.. how will dumping hundreds of thousands more in tax payer funds fix it??
Just name your city... I'm sure there is an investment disaster story there.
I suppose now the motivation for this ruling is that since local governments are never any good at managing "income generating" property that it would only seem natural to use eminent domain to secure property and then hand it off to a private developer. Who would of course be able to do it right.
And Sebilius thinks state run casinos is the best way to fund the education corruption.. er I mean system, here in KS (being native born to KS I still speak as if I live there.. even though I'm a few miles to the east now)
When are we going to learn?
I have for along time felt property taxes were just the start. I think it can now be stated that they were the inevitable creation of even more insidious state theft.
God help us all.
from the 5th amendment
"nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
granted it was a tight 5-4 vote. But even that scares me. Why would 5 of them have no clue as to what the Constitution says. These are Supreme Court judges for blank sake.
Where in that simple line, that even a 3rd grader could understand, does it say for public benefit?
We have talked for sometime about going down a slippery slope. Well my fellow Americans. We are in the mud.
You realize this opens the doors to all kinds of government thievery. If the government can now take your home or business or any form of private property simply because they feel they can generate more tax revenue with a mall or an office complex.
Then how long will it be till tax exempt churches and private schools are bulldozed in favor of a tax revenue generating facility. Oh yeah its already begun...
Franklin Township
The Kelo case is just the tip of the iceberg. Soon we will see government flexing its muscles in every nook and cranny saying one piece or another of property/land is more beneficial to the public if it were say, a casino. Since that would provide two angles of revenue. And let us not forget that this is not about taking the land for the government to manage. They are stealing it from you to give to a developer, another private entity.
And this is not the only form of theft under the guise of public interest going on.
In Fairbanks, AK the tribal natives formed a corporation and are working on taking land from private citizens there under the shady promise of building a "cultural center" Never mind that Fairbanks was founded by whitemen during the gold rush and it never was a native settlement.
They even secured federal funds for the project, but will be tax exempt seeing as they are natives and all. They noticed one cabin in the location qualifies for historical preservation. Just who's history are they attempting to preserve?
Of course we all know how well government is at managing "investment property"
KC has the notorious Union Station. A failed business venture on the part of the local government that as it nears bankruptcy they want to acquire and allocate more tax payer funds to "fix" it. Uh HELLO McFLy you ran it in the ground in the first place.. how will dumping hundreds of thousands more in tax payer funds fix it??
Just name your city... I'm sure there is an investment disaster story there.
I suppose now the motivation for this ruling is that since local governments are never any good at managing "income generating" property that it would only seem natural to use eminent domain to secure property and then hand it off to a private developer. Who would of course be able to do it right.
And Sebilius thinks state run casinos is the best way to fund the education corruption.. er I mean system, here in KS (being native born to KS I still speak as if I live there.. even though I'm a few miles to the east now)
When are we going to learn?
I have for along time felt property taxes were just the start. I think it can now be stated that they were the inevitable creation of even more insidious state theft.
God help us all.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
The news is a joke.
Is it just me or is anyone else sick of hearing about one missing girl in Aruba.
Don't get me wrong I do feel for the parents and its certainly tragic.
But do we really need to spend 24/7 talking about a case that none of us can really do anything about. It's not like we can all go to Aruba and help with the search party.
And the media is hardly even using the situation to talk about a larger problem involving the sex slave trade. Or even pointing out the fact that we are all blessed to have our legal system (even though it is screwed up and needs repair) It still shows just how great we have it here.
This leads me to a larger problem with our media. I believe the incessant talk about non-issues is entirely a diversion tactic to keep from addressing the real issues that need to be discussed and researched.
What happened to the news?
Don't get me wrong I do feel for the parents and its certainly tragic.
But do we really need to spend 24/7 talking about a case that none of us can really do anything about. It's not like we can all go to Aruba and help with the search party.
And the media is hardly even using the situation to talk about a larger problem involving the sex slave trade. Or even pointing out the fact that we are all blessed to have our legal system (even though it is screwed up and needs repair) It still shows just how great we have it here.
This leads me to a larger problem with our media. I believe the incessant talk about non-issues is entirely a diversion tactic to keep from addressing the real issues that need to be discussed and researched.
What happened to the news?
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Sedition is OK if your a senator from IL
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois commited a seditious act on the floor of the senate yesterday.
While reading an exerpt from and FBI agents report on activities at Gitmo
"When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here [at Guantanamo Bay]--I almost hesitate to put them in the [Congressional] Record, and yet they have to be added to this debate. Let me read to you what one FBI agent saw. And I quote from his report:
While reading an exerpt from and FBI agents report on activities at Gitmo
"When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here [at Guantanamo Bay]--I almost hesitate to put them in the [Congressional] Record, and yet they have to be added to this debate. Let me read to you what one FBI agent saw. And I quote from his report:
On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. . . . On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor.
"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime--Pol Pot or others--that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners." -Turbin Durbin
So in Durbin's eyes we are running a gulag.
Where is the anti-defimation league on this one?
You realize he just equated the atrocities at Auschwitz, the russian death camp of Archipelago and the killing fields of murderous marxist Pol Pot in Cambodia to the interogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay.
Just how in the hell does he get off equating some discomfort to mass torture and death???
Senator Durbin you are a disgrace to your office and this great nation.
What you did was give aid and comfort to the enemy and demoralized our troops. That's sedition!
Where is the outcry from the Jewish community on this one?
If we are running a gulag where are all the mass graves.
Why are they being fed honey glazed chicken?
Why are we bending over backwards to accommodate thier religious beliefs.
Why are we giving them korans that they just rip up and flush down the toilet.. then blame us for disgracing thier sacred book.
Where is the outrage for insinuating that loud rap music is torture equivlent of a gas chamber?
(while I may agree its a form of torture :) but far from having your eyes burned from within by noxious gases)
I think its time we have an investigation into the drugging of D.C. food supply. Something is making them MAD, insane. What he said is criminal in my view.
We literally have the criminally insane standing on the senate floor making Goebbles smile from ear to ear. He talks of our military being Nazi's ... He needs a serious history lesson... all while sitting in a 6x6 cell.
It's time to fire these traitors... FIRE THEM ALL!!!
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