There's been so much going on in the world and on the news lately that it's been kinda hard for me to nail one item down to talk about, so I decided to just hit all of them briefly instead of going into a dialogue about any single one of them. Yeah, I know, it's the lazy way out, but it's my blog so I can do what I want to!
Having said that, heeeeeeere we go!
So the US Congress has passed yet another "stopgap" funding bill to prevent the government from shutting down...AGAIN. Is it me, or are we not getting what we're paying for with our elected members of Congress? I mean, really, when is this largest collection of buffoons and asshats in the history of the United States gonna get the message that the budget needs to be fixed permanently instead of temporarily? The more I hear of this bunch of clowns and their antics in the great stinkhole known as Washington, DC the more I am in favor of two things: term limits and a Constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. Of course, the term limits thing will never fly because Congress would have to approve it, and who would approve something that they knew would make them unemployed after a set period of time? So maybe that's why we need to kick ALL of them out and start over with a fresh bunch of Congressmen and Senators who have no ties to the banking industry or Wall Street or "big money" and therefore have no "deals" to protect, and who will therefore do what's right for the country instead of what's right for their party or themselves. And the "balanced budget" amendment just makes good sense, especially since our Congress has proven that they are incapable or unwilling (my money is on unwilling) to balance it themselves because they're too busy doing what's right for their party or protecting their secret deals with "big money." It's waaaaaaaaay past time for the people to speak up on this one.
And while I'm mentioning speaking up on this one, it sure would be nice to hear The Great Pretender tell ALL of Congress to get off their asses and fix the budget instead of just telling Republicans to stop being hard to get along with and do things the Demoncratic way. I mean, maybe it's just me, but I think that once a person is elected to the office of President of the United States he should stop being a Demoncrat or a Republican and start being the President. Party affiliation and loyalty needs to be left at the White House door, ya know? But of course our current "do nothing, say nothing, good for nothing" President won't do that. All he's doing is proving that he's by far a worse president than Jimmy "Mr. Peanut" Carter ever was, hands down.
I don't know about you, but I'm sick to death of seeing people and organizations cave in to the unrealistic whinings of tiny-minded, selfish, "it's all about me!" people who want to do nothing but complain and get their way. I'm speaking specifically about all of those people who are complaining about Nativity scenes being displayed on court house lawns and Air Force bases, and Christmas trees being displayed in the same place. Now before anyone starts to lecture me about the Constitution and what it says about the separation of church and state, I would suggest you go do some serious research on that because you're going to find out that the Constitution doesn't say what you think it does. Having said that, these crybabies who are choosing to portray themselves as "oppressed" and "repressed" because they have to be subjected to seeing a nativity scene on a courthouse lawn need to wake up and realize a couple of things: first, this nation was founded and the Constitution drafted on Christian beliefs, and second, Christians have the same right to display artifacts of their faith as you have to hang up a sign saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" because you don't believe in God or Jesus Christ. You're nothing special because you're a minority, and if you don't like the Christmas tree on the courthouse lawn, then either don't look at it or exercise your Constitutional right to pack your shit and move to another country.
And the same thing goes for the display of the Confederate Battle Flag. I personally don't give a tinker's damn if you don't like it for whatever reason; my guess is that unless you're a veteran of the Civil Rights era and had a personal experience with the Klan visiting you in the middle of the night, you're basing your dislike of the flag on the one-sided, bigoted, and largely inaccurate information you've received from such neutral sources as the NAACP or the ACLU. (Pardon me while I go throw up in my mouth.) Recently here in South Carolina a black college student caused a little bit of a ruckus because he did some research - REAL research - on the history of the flag and why it's displayed today, and he decided that all he'd been told before was wrong. He came to the educated (emphasis on the word "educated") decision that the flag was not a symbol of hate or racism, that the flag had been hijacked by the racist groups of the Civil Rights era, and that today the flag was mostly displayed as a symbol of heritage and pride in that heritage. He therefore chose to display one in his college dorm room, and the college went nuts. They told him to take it down, naturally, which he did - at first. Then he decided to stand his ground and put it back up, getting some news coverage in the mean time. The story was big news for all of two days, and now it's gone. I wonder how long the story would have stayed in the news if the NAACP was ranting and raving about the flag being displayed in his room? Do tell...in any event, to the college kid who did the research and came to his own conclusion, I say this: Good on ya!
And former New Jersey governor John Corzine is a crook, period. There are some of us who knew this all along, but now he's proven it. Case closed.
Then there's Eric Holder, the single worst US Attorney General in the history of our nation. Here's a man who is the head of the largest law enforcement agency in the nation, yet when he gets called in front of Congress to testify about a failed sting operation called "Fast and Furious," he fails to even acknowledge the fact that he's being placed under oath. I dare say that if we had a Republican president, Holder would have been out on his ass in about two minutes after this whole "Fast and Furious" thing broke. But we have a Demoncratic president, and the Demoncrats have proven to us before with the way they handled "Slick Willy" Clinton committing perjury while a sitting President that they're perfectly okay with their party members lying under oath and thereby committing a crime, so what else should we expect from Mr. Useless sitting in the Oval Office? All I can say is November 2012 is right around the corner, and thank God for that.
And speaking of November 2012, now that Herman Cain has dropped out of the running, it looks like my vote is going to be cast for Ron Paul. I did some serious research on all of the leading contenders, and found that I agree with him on all of the issues except one, that one being abortion, and that isn't enough of a "hot button" topic with me to keep me from voting for him. So unless he does something really stupid between now and then - like deciding to run for President knowing that you've just ended a 13-year long extramarital affair and then being stupid enough to think no one will find out about it - he's got my vote.
Coffee time.
IHC
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