Chuck Thinks Right

Obama Solves Country's Traffic Problems

2012-05-22T08:33:00.001-04:00

Anyone that lives in even a fairly large city knows that traffic snarls are a pain in the rear, especially if your car seat is not comfortable.

Well, don't worry. Not only has Dear Leader fixed our economy, racial climate, and world standing, he has cut down on traffic congestion.

Gridlock eases in many metro areas

Read the article.

Thanks to Obama's economic and energy policies, we have fewer people needing to drive to work and those who do work are buying less gas.

What a guy. Who out there says this guy doesn't deserve a second term? I mean, come on, four more years of him and the few of us with jobs left will be able to zip right into work without being slowed down at all.

The Poster Child For Entitlement?

2012-05-19T08:29:00.000-04:00

Read this article.

Is this man the future under 4 more years of socialism?

A Belated Birthday

2012-05-16T08:29:00.000-04:00

Note: This is a few days late. I have been busy with Mother's Day, work, and life.

For those of you who do not know who the above lady is, let me educate you.

Born May 12, 1820 to affluent British parents in Florence, Italy. She grew to buck tradition, and her family, and became a nurse. This was unseemly at the time for a proper British lady of her stature. Florence always brushed this off, saying that she was called by God to nursing.

She went on to further the stature and practice of nursing in the Crimean War.

Finally in 1860 she formed the first secular nursing school in the world at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, making Florence Nightingale the most prominent person in founding my present profession.

For more info, read her Wiki page here.

While some still look upon a man in nursing as being a little suspect or even charming, I unashamedly pay homage to the founder of my profession.

As some may remember, my grandmother died last August. She was in and out of the hospital over the last couple of years of her life. My dad always sang the praises of the nurses caring for her. He even took a couple of big bags of popcorn up as a snack one night for them. (Note: if you want to thank a nurse, give food. We love food).

At the end she was in the hospital and on a ventilator - a breathing machine for life support.

I went to see her one last time and spent the afternoon in the room with her. I got back home, we live across the state, and talked to my father on the phone and he decided - with the blessing of my Physician brother and I and the rest of our family - to withdraw life-support. We all agreed that she was not going to recover and we were only prolonging her life and possible discomfort.

I got some sleep and then drove back across the state to be with my family when they withdrew the ventilator later that day.

Through all of this I was on the other side of the health care relationship. I am always the one with the answers. Always there to help ease a family into their decision and help them deal with the consequences of this choice. Always there with assurances that they did the right thing, it was what their loved one would want, they're at peace now, etc.

Sitting there in the room with no control over the situation and no tasks to perform, I only had time to sit back and watch the nurses.

I am never one to blow my own horn. In fact, it is one of the reasons I have not furthered my career from being "just a nurse". I am a charge nurse and would rather my staff get the credit. In my mind I am just dong my job.

Sitting there in my grandmother's room I was amazed at what an incredible service we provide for our patients. However I am perceived at the end of my career, I will always be indebted to those who serve now and those who came before me.

Thank a nurse the next time you have the occasion and join me in wishing Florence Nightingale a belated birthday, she left an incredible legacy in all who wear the uniform.

This Is Not Good News

2012-05-14T19:42:00.001-04:00

Poll: Romney has slight edge over Obama

Read the article.

This is not the first, and not likely the last, poll to show Romney ahead of Obama.

Also, it is too early for any poll to have any true relevance.

This poll, while a small margin, is still not good news for Obama.

-It is among registered voters. This is a gimmick long used by the MSM to show a Democrat leading in a race. The only poll that has any credibility IMHO is one that measures likely voters.

A poll just measuring registered voters is skewed for a couple of reasons.

One, it measures people who vote and people who do not. People who do not vote have no bearing on an election. An obvious fact that seems to be lost on the MSM.

Second, Republicans tend to be more reliable voters so often Democrats are over-counted in polls of registered voters. In other words, more of the voters who do not vote are Democrats so this inflates the strength of the Democratic candidate.

-It is by CBS. In my mind any poll conducted by the MSM is automatically suspect.

So, take these two aspects in mind and Obama is still trailing?

This is not good news - for Obama.

Oops, About That Whole Cherokee Thing

2012-05-08T20:12:00.000-04:00

ELIZABETH WARREN ANCESTOR ROUNDED UP CHEROKEES FOR TRAIL OF TEARS

Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic candidate for the Senate in Massachusetts, has claimed for decades that she was of Native American ancestry.

Remember, liberals find being a minority important. They see everything through the prism of race.

Well, it turns out that not only may she not be a Cherokee, there is an additional twist.

Read the article here.

Strong Candidates For The Darwin Awards

2012-05-03T23:31:00.000-04:00

For those of you not familiar with this not so esteemed award, check out the wiki page here.

We have some college students in New Zealand who at the very least deserve a nomination for this year's awards.

'Possum' drinking game worries garden staff

Read the story here.

Quote Of The Week

2012-04-28T23:14:00.000-04:00

It is ironic that someone whose claim to fame is fighting bullying would resort to bullying tactics in attacking high school students who were offended by his outrageous remarks.

Jimmy LaSalvia, executive director of GOProud

Read the article.

This article is what LaSalvia was referring to.

Anti-Bullying Speaker Curses Christian Teens

Read the second article, it gives the best background on what is happening here.

Basically the speaker was Dan Savage, an anti-bullying activist. He was speaking at the National High School Journalism Conference.

He was talking about the intolerance of Christians and attacking the bible. When he started his tirade a group of students from Christian schools stood and walked out. He then proceeded to attack and swear at them to cheers and howls of laughter from the audience.

I will say, liberals do love irony.

Agree Or Disagree

2012-04-27T08:51:00.000-04:00

I have posted several times in response to public school policies that seem absurd to me.

A school in Texas would not let two sisters wear t-shirts with the logo for Home For Our Troops on them because it violated the school dress code of not allowing shirts without collars.

Read the article.

Is this a case of political correctness run amok or should everyone have to follow the rules?

Notice in the article that this was not the first time the mother had violated the school dress code.

Further, are we seeing the "troop card" played too much?

Before anyone gets bent out of shape, think about it.

I have always used this blog to support our men and women in the armed forces. I have used it to call out transgressions against the troops. I think I have actually written about this group a few years ago. It is a great organization and has a presence here in West Michigan.

I ask again though, is there a limit to when and how often people can cry wolf when they do not get their way?

Do you think the troops are fighting in harms way for American citizens to flaunt law and public and/or school policy?

Or is this a case of intolerance by the school district? It certainly would not be the first time a school has banned troop support in their district. We all know the public school system is far-left at it's very core. Is this just a case of a school pushing it's political agenda?

For a bonus, read the comments that accompany the article. As of this writing, they were coming out in pretty strong support of the school. Many from vets.

What Do You Think About This?

2012-04-23T06:44:00.001-04:00

I posted at fellow blogger Brooke's site, PaleoCon Command Center, this last weekend. Her post was about a painting inspired by the Trayvon Martin case. The picture was disturbingly racist and credit to her for being willing to expose it. Part of the side conversation was that it is going to be a long summer.

I think we are going to see a lot of rioting this summer.

There is a lot of unrest on the left.

There are racial tensions, largely because of the lack of jobs. This is especially ironic considering that they will not be rioting against the source of the lack of jobs, Barack Obama.

We also have not seen the last of the 99% idiots by a long shot. I think a lot of the mainstream turds in this movement have gotten bored with it and are back home with their wealthy parents resuming their parasitical lives. What will be left over this summer are the socialists, communists, and anarchists. These are people that spend their free time burning police cars, shitting on the front porch of law-abiding citizens, and throwing garbage cans through the windows of stores owned by people committing the heinous crime of trying to make a living.

These people are like cockroaches that have come scurrying out from under the fridge when the 99%'ers started in.

I think we will see rioting in Chicago for the NATO summit, rioting at both conventions, and just general mayhem.

We will see rioting at the drop of a hat at any slight, real or imagined.

As an example, wait and see what happens if George Zimmerman is acquitted. This is a likely scenario given the evidence presented so far. Take an emotionally charged case, have the professional race baiters of Jackson and Sharpton along with the usual idiots in Congress screaming racism, add the New Black Panther Party. Then have the man acquitted and we have the ingredients for a good old fashioned riot.

I have a different take on all of this though.

I think it is going to be harmful to The One. I think it is going to more widespread and violent than last year and the media will not be able to control it.

Obama and the leadership of the Democratic Party have joined themselves at the hip with all of these people.

They have called the 99&’ers patriotic, which to them patriotism evidently means shitting on a police car.

They have not only shown strong support for the race-baiters in Florida but also have refused to ignore the public display of hatred and calls for violence by the NBPP.

Finally, we may actually see a sleeping giant in the GOP. There are several Republicans around the country, Mitt Romney, Donald Trump, the leadership of the RNC, etc. that are willing to say the king has no clothes.

This is one of the main reasons we lost in 2008, an absolute fear of speaking out against Obama.

Yes, this is going to be a long summer but it may lead to a nice fall…

What do you think?

Stand Your Ground (If Your Black)

2012-04-21T19:49:00.002-04:00

NAACP weighs in on what they say is a "Stand Your Ground" case against Jacksonville woman

Read the article

All of a sudden the NAACP supports Florida's stand your ground law.

Or maybe they are just a bunch of racists? Naw, must be different circumstances.

quote Of The Week

2012-04-15T08:18:00.001-04:00

It's a disgrace that man hasn't been dragged out of his house and tied to a car and taken away. That's the only kind of retribution that people like that understand. It's a disgrace that man hasn't been shot yet. Forget about him being arrested--the fact that he hasn't been shot yet is a disgrace.

Mike Tyson talking about George Zimmerman.

Source

I don't know about anyone else but my mind is made up. I was waiting to hear the opinion of Mike Tyson before I decided how I felt about this case.

Now that we have heard from all of the geniuses on the left, Rep Hank Johnson (Guam could tip over), Rep Bobby Rush (formerly of the Black Panther Party), Mike Tyson (convicted rapist), it is clear what we should all think.

Who's Overseeing Your Kid's Education?

2012-04-13T08:06:00.002-04:00

This guy is one of the people helping set education policy in our country:

TOP TEACHERS UNION ORGANIZER SELF-DECLARED SOCIALIST, BIN LADEN APOLOGIST

Undoubtedly you will sleep better tonight.

The AP Reporting Just The Facts

2012-04-11T09:13:00.003-04:00

I read the first few paragraphs of this article and then returned to the byline at the top thinking it was commentary by someone, Fox will often post these commentary articles. When I looked it was not commentary. This was a "news" article by the Associated Press.

Read the first few paragraphs and see what you think about it.

Could possible misunderstanding on ObamaCare cloud Supreme Court deliberations?

Huh? - Again

2012-04-05T20:43:00.003-04:00

I could almost make a series of these "Huh" posts.

Read this article.

Tyler Perry Pulled Over, Accuses White Cops of Racial Profiling via Facebook

(Admission - I didn't know who this man was until my wife and son told me. I still don't care.)

Two thoughts:

-We are getting to the point that police are becoming afraid of pulling over a minority because of race-baiters.

-How easy would it really have been for the police to racially profile someone with tinted windows?

Huh??

2012-04-03T20:56:00.002-04:00

Feds accuse Ariz. Sheriff Arpaio of bad faith

Read the article.

The "Justice" Department is trying to sue Sheriff Joe for civil rights violations. He and the JD are in negotiations to settle the suit.

The feds are accusing of bad faith in his negotiations. Get this:

The U.S. Justice Department tells one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's lawyers in a letter Tuesday that the sheriff's office's precondition on being given facts to back up its 22-page letter alleging violations would result in the cancellation of negotiations

WTF!!!

Am I missing something here? He is acting in bad faith because he is asking for facts?

Quote Of The Week

2012-04-01T21:21:00.004-04:00

“We have launched an internal investigation into the editorial process surrounding this particular story.”

Statement from NBC.

Read the article.

What is NBC looking into you ask?

The Today Show was running a ~~fair and balanced~~ story on the Trayvon Martin shooting. They were playing audio of the 911 call.

This is NBC's version of the tape:

Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.

Now, the real version:

Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.

Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?

Zimmerman: He looks black.

Hey, wasn't it MSNBC that ran this picture about racism at the Tea Party rallies:

Instead of this one?

Hmm...

I'm sorry, I worked 12 hours today. I just don't have the energy to act surprised tonight. If someone else has the energy please feel free to step in for me.

Ignorance On Display

2012-03-30T23:11:00.001-04:00

Some blogs simply write themselves, we just have to get out of the way and let them go.

Read this article.

Just Another Liberal D-bag

2012-03-28T20:44:00.002-04:00

Spike Lee tweeted what he thought was the address of George Martin in Florida.

Let's pause right there.

He was asking people to go to this man's house and harass him. There are people putting a bounty on his head. We have the NBPP saying they are going to form a militia to go and get this man. (aside: why the Hell is a black militia okay when a white one is a hate group?).

In short, there are a bunch of whack-jobs out there who would like to harm this man. A man who could very well be guilty of nothing more than protecting himself from an assault.

So what does Spike Lee do? The liberal POS sends the shooters address out so these nuts can go and harm him.

Problem is, that's not even the punch line yet.

It turns out that it was the wrong address. It was the address of a couple in their 70's who have no connection what-so-ever to the case except the misfortune of having a son with a similar name who lived with them briefly more than a decade ago.

That is still not the worst of it.

These people are being harassed. They have the media hounding them. They have gotten hate mail. They have had to move out of their house for their safety.

But we are still not to the worst of it.

This POS liberal refuses to apologize to them. When contacted his staff offered a "no comment".

Spike Lee Won't Apologize, Has 'No Comment' On Terror Tweet

Read the article.

My only hope is these poor people sue this dude into bankruptcy.

Some Assaults Obama And Friends Have Yet To Comment On

2012-03-26T23:10:00.004-04:00

President Barack Obama was concerned about the Traymont Martin shooting because the kid looked like him.

That must be why he has not shown much concern for these incidents.

Mississippi State releases more details on Saturday homicide

Notice this passage:

Three African American male suspects reportedly fled the scene in a blue Crown Victoria.

Read the article

This was clearly a racially motivated killing. One can only assume the good men Jackson and Sharpton will stop by Mississippi since they are already in the neighborhood.

Then there is this one in which the perpetrators made racial comments during the attack.

Teen Set on Fire in Racial Attack; Media Silent

Read the article.

Hmm, that one happened about a month ago. That's the same response time as Obama and friends had on the Florida shooting. They'll probably comment on it any day now.

Come to think of it, they didn't comment on this attack either

Race War At Wisconsin State Fair

Source

or this one

BRUTAL ATTACK BY PHILLY TEENS ON WOUNDED VIETNAM VET CAUGHT ON VIDEO

Source

But surely he has commented on this right?

Race and the 'flash mob' attacks

Source

I mean, it's happening in his home town.

Obama Attempting To Walk Back Comments On Florida Shooting

2012-03-25T20:50:00.004-04:00

"was speaking powerfully about this as a parent."..."no matter gender or race, this is a tragedy."

David Plouffe, White House adviser.

Read the article.

We have all heard about the shooting in Florida. While we have yet to hear any real evidence in the case, the shooter has been convicted by the court of public opinion and apparently sentenced to death by some in our society. Whatever else happens in the case, we still have a young man dead and family living the horror of any parent, the death of a child.

As he has been wont to do in other racially charged cases, President Obama quickly dove head first into the national discussion with what could easily be taken as a racially tinged statement.

The clear inference in his comment was that it was a tragedy because the kid looked like him. A comment that would have brought howls of protest from a white president. People would still be screaming if George Bush had made such a remark about a white teenager.

It seems as if Obama is now realizing that he may have made a mistake by misjudging how large the mob scene that is developing currently in Florida would become.

As with any case like this we have the Rev Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton rushing down to claim face time in front of any TV camera they can find. Truth, evidence, investigation all be damned. We don't need to know the truth, just give the man a fair trial and hang him.

Problem this time is someone slipped up and let the hard-core racists in. Now we have Louis Farrakhan and the New Black Panther Party in Florida forming a lynch mob.

We have Farrakhan calling for retaliation

FARRAKHAN TWEETS: ‘WHERE THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE WILL BE NO PEACE…LAW OF RETALIATION MAY…BE APPLIED’

Read the article.

Then we have the NBPP putting a bounty on the shooter's head and calling for the formation of a militia to hunt down the shooter and take matters into their own hands.

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."..."If the government won't do the job, we'll do it."

Mikhail Muhammad, leader of the NBPP

Black Panthers offer $10,000 bounty to catch Trayvon killer

Read the article.

Bottom line is that Obama has once again, needlessly, put himself in a no-win situation with a racially-charged issue.

-If he backtracks now or condemns the NBPP and Farrakhan, as he should, he will get criticized from the left.

-If he does not criticize the NBPP and Farrakhan, which he should if he were to be fair, he will be attacked from the right as a racist and turning a blind eye to hatred from the left (again).

-Do nothing, as he pretty much is doing now, and the whole thing blows up in to a race-fueled frenzy and it is too late to do anything.

What is the solution? Elect a President (and by extension an Attorney General) that represents the entire country , not just one race.

Prefer Obama Over Romney - What Do You Think?

2012-03-23T09:46:00.002-04:00

Rick Santorum has said if Mitt Romney is the nominee we might as well stick with Obama.

Read the article.

What do you think?

We have also had Newt Gingrich say he will stay in the campaign to try to derail Romney. Not to win, just to keep Romney from winning. His speech after the Mississippi and Alabama primaries bordered on delusional IMHO.

Like or don't like who we have as a choice this year, and I am not a huge fan of any of them, is this kind of rhetoric good for the GOP's prospects in the fall?

How could, for instance, Santorum or Gingrich now come out in the general election and throw their support (and supporters) behind Romney - the likely nominee?

Bottom line, they are writing campaign commercials for the Dems.

I wonder, and, as I said this is far from an endorsement, if it is time for Santorum and Gingrich to man up and step aside.

Gingrich was done when he started. His campaign has been a joke all along.

Santroum fought the good fight but, it's over. If he can't see this by now he's an idiot. He would have to get about 75% of the delegates from here out, in states where he is mostly trailing. There are some inspirational come-back stories, this isn't one of them.

Ron Paul, forget about it. He's quaint and a little crazy but completely irrelevant. He's hanging out until the end to give his supporters a voice at the convention. I'm not opposed to this. I actually respect it. And yes, it is different than trying to undermine the front runner like Newt is doing.

Forget a brokered convention. At best this would be disastrous for the GOP. What kind of dumb-asses do we look like to the swing voters if we cannot even choose a nominee? That inspires trust.

Also, who would be the nominee? Think Romney's supporters are going to be rabid supporters of a candidate that did not get any votes in the primary and was chosen instead by the party bosses? Should they be?

Think Romney is going to quietly go away if he has 85 - 90% of the delegates needed when no one else generated 40 - 50%? Should he?

The question for these gentleman becomes, which is more important - their country and party or their ego.

What are your thoughts?

2012-03-18T10:25:00.003-04:00

"We made a decision to postpone publishing it in light of recent events in Afghanistan, including the Koran burning and the alleged killings of Afghani civilians by a member of the U.S. military. It is our belief that fallout from running this ad now could put US troops and civilians in the region in danger and we would like to avoid that."

Eileen Murphy, New York Times

Read the article

For those of you who have been in a cave and have not heard of this, the NYT ran the following anti-Catholic ad from the Freedom From Religion Foundation in the paper on March 9th.

In response Pamela Geller, blogger and executive director of Stop Islamization of America, asked the NYT to run this ad

Hmm. Think the NYT is really worried about placing US troops in danger?

Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror

Leaked Cables Offer Raw Look at U.S. Diplomacy

The Iraq Archive: The Strands of a War

The NAACP Wants ... Saudi Arabia To Investigate Our Voting Rights Record?

2012-03-14T19:10:00.004-04:00

UN rights council delves into US voter I.D. laws

Read the article.

The make-up of the council who will judge us:

-China and Cuba, both known for their stellar human rights record

-Kuwait, allowed women to vote starting in 2005

-Qatar, women could vote starting in 2003

-Moldova, one of the pioneers. They have allowed women to vote for almost 20 years.

-Saudi Arabia, as of yet does not allow women to vote. Or drive. Or sunbathe.

What is the point? The point is that the NAACP, like the rest of the left, is willing to whore themselves out to make a political point.

What we need is for someone to have the stones to take the 2008 Black Panther's incident in Philadelphia. But then, the left would not see that as racism, it's against whitey.

The question is, what will Obama do if the UN council finds that we violate the rights of blacks?

The finding itself is irrelevant. It has no bearing onus and is from a council with no credibility what-so-ever.

But... will Obama and the "Justice Department" use this as ammunition against states trying to pass voter ID laws? Laws that have been deemed constitutional by SCOTUS, which obviously has no bearing with the left.

Addendum. Immediately after I posted this I went to Foxnews.com and saw this article. Muammar Qaddafi and Libya are being praised for their human rights record by the same UN Human Rights Council that will investigate us.

What is there left to say?

Rush Has Company

2012-03-06T07:58:00.002-05:00

There was a great article by Kirsten Powers published Sunday.

For those who do not know Ms Powers, she is a columnist, former member of Bill Clinton's staff, and Fox News contributer.

I see her as a fairly frequent guest on Special Report with Bret Baier. I like her although I don't very often agree with her because of her views. Bottom line? She's a consistent, strong willed liberal.

This introduction is important to know before you read this article. It is important to understand where she is coming from when she is writing this.

Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist

Mar 4, 2012 10:00 AM EST

Rush Limbaugh apologized on Saturday for calling a Georgetown Law student a slut for testifying about contraception and starting a firestorm of outrage. Kirsten Powers says the liberals who led the charge need to start holding their own side accountable.

Read the article, it's well worth your time.

As a bonus, read this. It asks the question "Will Obama return the $1 million he got from Maher's PAC"?

Finally, when you are done, pass this on.

We are small bloggers with no real power but as a group we can make change.

Write your own piece, if you see fit.

It is time we bring the left kicking and screaming into the light of day. Time to put them on display for the misogynist, racist, hateful people they really are.

The media is not going to do it for us.

What Do You Think About This?

2012-03-02T20:24:00.001-05:00

Medical Journal Advocates Killing Newborns

Read the article

This seems like a dumb question but what are your thoughts on this?

I have a thought on it that may surprise a bit but I want to see what other people think.