Random Thoughts on a Saturday Morning

My applogies for the extended length of time between my entries, but it's been a very busy two weeks for me. Having said that, let's take a stroll through the stories on the front page of Foxnews.com, shall we? Some good stuff there today...

So officials in Malaysia are now certain that the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 is "deliberate." Gee, ya think? First there are the two passengers who board with stolen passports, then those two passengers turn out to be Iranian, and then Iran says that they were "dissidents seeking asylum," and the officials in Malaysia are just now coming to the conclusion that the disappearance without a trace of a jumbo jet with more than 200 passengers on board was a "deliberate act?" Really? For openers, when did Iran ever admit that its citizens were fleeing their country? How about NEVER? Secondly, to make a jet of this size with this many people on board disappear without a trace requires resources far beyond those of a terror group - it would need the resources of an organized national government, and gee, ain't it funny that there were two Iranians on board? Like the old saying goes, "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck." And this duck is quacking 'TERRORIST.'

And meanwhile in Wyoming, in yet another display of the power of a liberal-backed government run amok, the EPA is threatening to hit a man who built a stocking pond on his own land with fines totalling $75,000 PER DAY unless he fills in the pond and restores the land to what it once was. The EPA is claiming that the pond is the source of "illegal runoffs," yet they fail to explain how "runoff" can come from a pond. They're also claiming that the farmer illegally dammed up a stream, yet pictures of the pond show no such stream anywhere near the pond. And never mind that the State of Wyoming has notified the EPA that the farmer obtained all of the necessary permits required by the state to build the pond and that he was in full compliance with Wyoming law; the EPA has apparently decided that it has nothing better to do than to go after a law-abiding citizen who builds a pond on his own land and threaten him with fines that will ultimately bankrupt him. And of coure, our Buffoon In Chief isn't saying a damned thing about it because, in my humble opinion, the farmer isn't black.

Down in Houston, Texas, the news is that the man who fatally shot a 16 year old boy he found in his daughter's bedroom at 2AM won't be charged with a crime. The sheriff in that area has said that he'll let the Grand Jury hear the case and decide whether or not to charge the man, but he's not doing it. And considering how it all went down, I agree with the sheriff's decision. If I heard noises coming from my 16 year old daughter's bedroom at 2AM, opened the door to find my daughter on the bed with a strange boy in the room, my daughter screaming that she didn't know the kid, I'd have shot his ass too. Only after the incident had taken place did the daughter cop to knowing the kid, saying that he was her boyfriend and that she'd snuck him into the house. This news resulted in the father having an immediate emotional breakdown, and I'm pretty sure I'd have had the same thing happen to me. But in the heat of the moment the father did what any father would do - he protected his daughter from what he perceived as a rape in progress, and while it's tragic that no such rape was taking place I don't think you can blame the father one bit. The mother of the dead kid, however, understandably has a different opinion. My heart goes out to her over the loss of her child, but the blame doesn't lie with the father. I'm sure the gun control nuts are gonna have a field day with this one, and I'm quite surprised it hasn't started already. But of course, since the kid isn't black I don't think it's going to generate anywhere near the publicity that the Trayvon Marting case did.

In North Carolina, the Buncombe County School District has told a 9 year old boy who was being bullied because he was using a "My Little Pony" backpack that he should stop bringing the backpack to school. At first glance this appears to be a callous thing to say and to a degree it is, but you also have to realize the obvious - a boy using a "My Little Pony" backpack is gonna get teased, period. I had a kid in my 5th grade class who caught hell from the other boys in the class because he showed up with a "Mickey Mouse" schoolbus lunchbox one day, and it only took one day for him to realize that the smart thing to do was NOT to use that particular lunchbox. So the next day he left it at home, the kids in the class lost interest, and all was right with the world. Kids react for the most part out of sheer emotion, and this is a great example of just that. Kids don't realize that what they say or do is hurtful because they haven't been taught that yet, and some kids aren't taught by their parents that some of the things they do may subject them to some not-so-pleasant experiences. As for the school's part, if they had also said that they were going to punish the kids doing the bullying I don't think this would have made the national news; but they didn't say that, so it did. There are several lessons to be learned by all here, and I hope people are paying attention.

Across the seas in Afghanistan, President Karzai has said in plain language that his nation "doesn't need American troops." Okay, fine by me. Cease all military operations, shut down the bases, divert all available air transport to Afghanistan, pack up our troops lock, stock, and barrel, and get them the hell out of there. And whatever you can't fit on a plane to fly out, blow it up so that there's nothing for that ungrateful bastard Karzai and his people to use when we're gone. Ten years from now when the Taliban has the nation in a stranglehold again and the people are crying out to the Afghan government for help, I just hope that whoever is President of both nations remembers what this jackass Karzai has said - and that our President, whoever he or she may be, tells the Afghani president to go pound sand.

In some interesting and unusual news from California, a gun shop parts store owner there has refused to turn over his list of 5,000+ clients who bought an AR-15 lower receiver from him to the feds, who are claiming that the part is "illegal" and want to confiscate the parts already sold. As any true American should, the shop owner has told the Feds to go pound sand. But the really funny and ironic part? The shop owner's name is Dimitrius Karras. Figure it out.

And all over the nation, the ongoing slow-motion train wreck that is NObamacare continues with the government granting yet another exemption, this one having the potential to gut the law into nothing but a useless, unenforceable jumble of words. The more this disaster goes on the more apparent it is that the Republicans and the Tea Party were right all along. I just hope America remembers this disaster in November and again in 2016.

I know I sure will.

IHC