Does the title of my blog make ANY sense whatsoever? Let’s save some money…not by SPENDING it…but by SAVING it.

Leave it to Vice President Biden to say something silly like “We misread the economy” or, his latest inspirational words are that we need to keep spending money in order to avoid bankruptcy. HUH?? Isn’t the runaway spending what really GOT us into this MESS to begin with??

Yes, it has.

As I have mentioned on my show many times, we have passed the ONE TRILLION DOLLAR deficit mark now. This happened because of outrageous spending sprees we haven’t seen from the government in literally YEARS and YEARS.

I never believed that Biden or Obama had the slightest CLUE how a capitalist foundation works.

But with the Vice President’s latest words, it is certain to me now that they clearly just don’t get it.

The bottom line is that out of control government spending has brought us to the economic conditions we have today.

To say that to avoid bankruptcy, we need to spend more? Well, that’s something only Biden could state with a staight face.

That is pretty darned cool, don’t you think? AND they can sell you stamps??

What will be next? Combo ATM-vending machines? Have a soda subtracted from your paycheck!

Well, in South Africa, ATMs have pepper spray. That is, for those who would try to tamper with the machines to get quick cash.

It’s James Bond meets Inspector Gadget!

Nearly 500 cash machines were blown up and robbed last year alone. And the problem is only getting worse.

But there’s nothing like a little pepper spray to dampen a robber’s appetite, right?

Unfortunately, there is room for malfunctions. Three technicians were accidentaly sprayed and required medical treatment. Ooooops.

It would be a great idea here in America, but with lawsuits and liability being what they are today, it would never happen.

Wonder if you can get some stamps and soda with that?

But they don’t want the cost.

Well, sorry. There are no rights without responsibilities. And to be honest, health care isn’t a right in the first place.

But this is where America has gone wrong. We want everything under the sun…so long as the other guy pays for it.

Want something beyond your grasp? Our answer today? Soak the rich. They have enough money…they have TOO much money. They can’t POSSIBLY spend that kind of money, so I guess YOU should be entitled to it! YOU take the money that THEY earned!

This is not the American way. This is NOT what made us the greatest country on God’s green earth.

We need more self reliance in America. We need more people lifting than leaning.

And we need to have more people look at what the government is doing already and asking, honestly and with a straight face, if we want that same government running our healthcare.

The main thing I fear about her appointment, other than the fact that she is just way too liberal, is that she seems to put a premium on her race. Her race seems to become her IDENTITY an awful lot.

I am Hispanic, as well. But I would be a very DIFFERENT Supreme Court Justice.

Why?

Because race is NOT my identity. I do not live my life as an Hispanic as Sotomayor apparently does. I live my life as an AMERICAN. PERIOD.

And so does Justice Clarence Thomas. I think that is why a lot of liberals loath him so much. He refuses to rule as a “black” American. Which is why many don’t even consider him really a true minority as they view Sotomayor.

Sotomayor has said in the past that she did not have the scores to get into school–so basically thank God for affirmative action. This is EXACTLY what is WRONG with America. If you don’t have the scores, you don’t get in. PERIOD!

We need to remember that the Supreme Court just recently reversed a decision by Sotomayor and other appeals judges that clearly WAS wrong as they had ruled. It was the now infamous case of the white firefighters who has their great test scores thrown out because–through no fault of their own–minority scores were AWFUL.

So the city of New Haven THREW OUT THE TEST, instead of just promoting the firefighters who WERE WORTHY of the promotion and telling the ones who WEREN’T that maybe they should set up a study group with those who could achieve.

There is a view in America that we all should have equality of opportunity. That is held by conservatives.

Sonia Sotomayor is a liberal and believes, as most liberals do, in equality of RESULTS.

Sorry, but with all due respect, we can never have equality of RESULTS unless we cheat. The only time we have that is when we are six feet under. That will be when we are all equal. At least on this earth, anyway.

I am not against a Hispanic on the Supreme Court. I am against a Hispanic who insists on seeing themselves first as an Hispanic, and second as an American.

Too bad Spencer Hughes isn’t in the running. Those obsessed with race would have their Hispanic. And those who believe in the Constitution and and its strict interpretation would have a Justice worth being proud of.

A few years ago I saw my first apparition and have since had personal experiences with the otherworldly that I could not explain.

I have no doubts that there is a whole other world right up against our own that we might JUST be starting to understand. One day it will be second nature and common knowledge.

Being a fan of the Ghost Hunter shows on television, I found out about a ghost hunt and investigation aboard the USS Hornet, now a museum in Alameda across from San Francisco.

This Essex class aircraft carrier and its men served valiantly in World War II and although it came under attack dozens of times after leaving Pearl Harbor–it managed to avoid any torpedo or kamikaze attacks through the whole 18 months it served. It actually holds many records from its time in the War.

Not to mention its role in the Apollo 11 mission recovery. The footsteps taking by the astronauts are painted on the ground and young and old alike can retrace their historic steps.

As for the hunt, the Journey Paranormal Society and the Hornet team broke us up into teams and 24 of us had the ship almost to ourselves. You don’t realize how large an awe inspiring these ships are until you are on them. The length of three football fields SOUNDS long…but it is LONGER than it sounds.

It was lights out at 9m…and night vision cams, flashlights, digital recorders, EMF detectors came on for the 5 hour plus adventure. We even got to try out  a brand new thermal cam–the ones they show on TV where you see the temperature outlines of people and things around you.

Our group saw shadow figures…felt taps and a listener of mine who went actually got GRABBED by something that wasn’t there…at least to the eye. He was grabbed pretty hard, too. No one behind him.

This kind of stuff is common for those who work on board the ship. Full body apparitions are so frequently seen that they barely startle the regulars anymore. Souls long gone still roam the ship, in full uniform, some acting as if the War is still going on.

The team set up 16 video cameras throughout the sick bay area, which is where we spent the night. It was creepy but amazing to be sleeping in a bunk where the sick and injured slept so many years ago.

We even saw the bed that President Richard Nixon used when he was on the Hornet during the time of the Apollo 11 mission.

We ate pizza in the mess hall where thousands of sailors would hang out and socialize during their time to relax and eat. The mess hall and kitchen are some of the most actively haunted parts of the ship.

This trip was an amazing time and once in a lifetime opportunity. And it reminded me of the rich history that we need to pass on to the next generation.

Docents volunteer aboard the ship to guide children and parents, young and old, through this historic ship. Some of them served on the Hornet or other naval ships during over the years. Their wisdom and knowledge are to be cherished and soaked in. They even offer overnight stays for families several times a year. The ghost hunts are more rare, but worth every penny if you ever have the opportunity.

Later this month, the public will have the chance to meet Buzz Aldrin–one of the first two astronauts on the moon! Now THAT is history worth sharing.

We owe it to those who served and to America as a nation to preserve these monuments and share them with others.

Thanks to the whole team for salvaging the Hornet from the scrap yards where it almost ended up in the 90s to the majestic, living monument that it is today.

Make an effort to visit it and all the other such museums and monuments that are certainly available in your neck of the woods.

My introduction to Spain’s Running of the Bulls came from Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises. It sounded insane in the book, and it WAS insane by all accounts when I witnessed the visuals of the event.

Here’s the gist of this incredibly idiotic event. Tough, macho men stay up all night drinking (you’d HAVE to be plastered to want to do this) and then take part in this ritual the following morning.

People run down the half mile course of city streets in Pamplona, Spain–with angry bulls chasing closely behind.

No thanks. I’d rather watch Barney Frank talk about Wall Street or Nancy Pelosi about waterboarding and the CIA. I’d rather vote for liberals, actually, before doing this.

Well, one man unfortunately became the first fatality in 14 years, bringing the total of deaths from the event to 15 (they began keep that record in 1911).

Is it mean to call people who participate in this foolish? I don’t think it is. Just an observation.

I have a better idea.

Let’s hold a traditional event where we release common sense down the street, have millions of people chase after it, and hope to God they catch it before it’s too late.

But then I either got a little less uptight or they got a whole lot more uptight. But I just couldn’t take them anymore.

Why? Because of their holier than thou attitude towards everything.

Their latest press release was the silliest thing I had ever seen. It was an overly long and boring commentary on  why Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died through their own lifestyles.

No sign of sadness or support for the families of the deceased. Just a finger being wagged in our faces–better behave!! Better be good people or you, too, can die prematurely!!

They went as far as criticizing Farrah’s “lust inducing” bikini pictures of old. HAHA. Lust inducing!! Those sinful posters that millions of young men hung on their walls and lockers! SHAME!! Oh the SHAME!!

See? God punishes us for living like Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.

Except I DON’T BELIEVE THAT FOR A SECOND!

How do you explain a good friend of ours informing us yesterday that his wife and son both died in a tragic, freakish car accident while on vacation? These were the NICEST people you could ever hope to meet. They would give you their own bedroom if you needed a place to sleep. They didn’t have a lot of money, but they worked harder than most people I know. They were good, God fearing people who never hurt a flea. Nor did they “punish” their bodies, as the above mentioned press release insists Fawcett and Jackson were so guilty of. They didn’t “pop pills” or…GASP…pose for bikini posters.

Why did THEY die?? Did God get bored just punishing the likes of Fawcett and Jackson?

I am so sad that my friend’s family died like that. So horrible it is almost beyond comprehension.

But I also feel a sense of relief in no longer being subject to messages from a loony organization that purports to speak for conservatives everywhere.

No, thanks. You can keep your self righteous, holier than thou attitude to yourselves now.

I won’t lend my ears to it ever again.

What exactly are the crowning achievements so far? Expanding the scope of government to the greatest and fastest levels we’ve seen in many, many years? Having the government take over sectors of the economy it was NEVER intended to? And all this (and then some) with near double digit unemployment as an after taste.

And now Colin Powell is seeing the cracks in plaster, too.

Remember, Powell was one of Obama’s biggest republican (with a small “r”, thank you) supporters.

Now, the retired Army general is apparently having what some of us would easily call buyer’s remorse.

In an interview with CNN last week, Powell said “I’m concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them.”

In other words, the appetite of this administration has even SUPPORTERS concerned.

And it’s a valid concern. How was Bush so vilified for all that spending when the President who was elected to cure all of his ills spends MORE money at a FASTER rate??

It’s an interesting question. But not one I am readily getting answers to.

And while the left loves to vilify Sarah Palin, they conveniently ignore all the guffaws and misspeaks and misstepsof Vice President Joe Biden.

As the economy and jobless rate continue to spiral–with jobless rates the worst they have been in nearly 30 years–the administration keeps coming up with EXCUSES.

Now Vice President Biden actually has had the AUDACITY to say they misread the economy. It’s worse than they thought it was.

REALLY??

How do you get WORSE than the doom and gloom this bunch keep feeding us all those months leading up to the election??

Remember all the talk of the worst economy since the Great Depression? Remember when Obama himself said that if we didn’t act fast enough that the recession might be one we would never get out of??

Sounded like pretty solid, end of the world as we know it, fear mongering.

And now Biden with a straight face says they didn’t know it was THIS bad.

And actually, the irony of it all is that is WASN’T this bad. THEY have made things WORSE with their socialistic tinkering of the economy.

There is only one problem and it’s a big one.

Americans elected this team to make things BETTER, not worse.

As much as the left hated Bush and his “awful 8 years” as President, it was Obama’s team that have brought us to the brink of 10% unemployment.

What ELSE are they misreading? Taking control of an auto giant? Spending at rates we haven’t seen in generations? Reaching out to thugs and tyrants as if they were tea time friends? Saying NOTHING when North Korea fires off half a dozen missiles?

What ELSE are they misreading? Probably quite a bit.

As the saying goes, don’t blame me. I voted for the other guy.

If you haven’t seen your spouse or teenager lately, chances are they are logged on and engaging in a timesink battle between the Alliance and the Horde.

Looking back, I can’t believe how many MONTHS of my life were literally dumped down the drain of this game.  Typing “/play” tells the unsuspecting player just how much time they have spent logged on to the game. It usually isn’t measured in hours, but MONTHS…months made up of actual 24 HOUR DAYS!

The game makers are geniuses, all of them, because they keep getting millions of new players around the world hooked all the time. The latest carrot is tying in the game with Mountain Dew products. Now your kids have a REASON to guzzle that stuff down! They are on a QUEST, after all!

“Just one more hour and I will log! Promise,” you will hear from players of all ages.

Well, I just read about a new Twitter client that enables players of the game to send and receive their Twitter messages (as a grown man, I refuse to refer to them as…GASP…tweets) within a game. And if you are too wrapped up in a battle or dungeon with your guild, you can put the…er…messages…in a queue to be sent at a not so catastrophic time.

My…I think it might be time to brew a nice strong pot of coffee, put the level 80 epic two-handed sword down, put the plate armor back in the closet, and go outside.

Not for a long time, but just for a little. Start with a few minutes. Then hours.

Next thing you know, you’ll be back to spending all that extra time reading books or smelling roses or playing with the kids.

It’s pretty cool once you get used to it again.

I didn’t need the ones that made a big BOOM in the sky. I am talking about the Red Devil Safe & Sane box he would buy every year.

Those were the days.

And thankfully, they still are…in SOME places. The few places left where Americans have the freedom to light safe home fireworks on America’s Birthday.

But unfortunately, there are many places in America where you are no longer allowed to light them. And the list of places keeps growing.

All it takes is an isolated brush fire or a house burning down SOMEWHERE in America for cities to go crazy with absurd bans.

People say it’s a fire danger. Yep. So are cigarettes and candles. So are firepits and fireplaces. Candles cause a LOT more fires every year than fireworks. I wonder why we haven’t banned CANDLES yet?!?!

I hate the sheep mentality in America today. People really don’t THINK FOR THEMSELVES anymore and it doesn’t help that the government at every level keeps insisting that we can’t think or act on our own anymore without their help and step by step guidance.

I worked in a community that ended up banning fireworks all because of TWO MORONS who a) lit them in an area where they were ALREADY ILLEGAL and b) threw them over a fence and burned down a house.

TWO MORONS. Hundreds of thousands losing an all American tradition.

People argue that the big fireworks shows are the best, anyway.

Some ARE impressive and yes, they have a place on Independence Day. But they can’t replace the fun and excitement of Safe & Sane fireworks. I actually don’t remember any of the fireworks shows growing up.

But I still have vivid memories of watching those cones light up and the Cherry Blossoms spin round and round in front of our Bernal Heights home in the 70s and 80s.

And thank God, I still live in a place where my children have enjoyed them every year, too.

The tradition continues…for now…until our city becomes the next one to fall to hysteria and political correctness and blindness.

And now if you’ll excuse me…I have a box of Red Devils to buy for this weekend.

Happy Birthday, America. May you remain the free country that you have always been.

But this morning, bright and early thanks to the neighbor’s dogs barking at 4am, I heard a part of the story that make me come unhinged.

It was an accident.

Yep. You see, this man didn’t MEAN to get his wife wet (or hit her…I suppose THAT was an accident, too)…he oversprayed when he was watering the lawn.

Yeah!! That’s it!! It was an ACCIDENT!!

See?  When I abused the kids, kicked the dog, yelled at my boss, blew the rent money, lost my job, ate the junk food, forgot my meeting–it was all an ACCIDENT!! It wasn’t my fault!!

This is why the fabric of society is falling apart at the seams. No one is willing to own up to responsibility anymore. No one is EVER to blame. FOR ANYTHING!

It’s PATHETIC.

This man sounds like some people I know. Oh, officer! I didn’t mean to nearly run them over with the car! I didn’t know the car was in REVERSE when I FLOORED it!! Honest, officer!! Oh, officer!! I was just touching her hand!! I didn’t mean to almost break it and cause permanent nerve and tissue damage!! And oh officer!! I didn’t really smash the door down!! I was just having trouble OPENING it!!

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.

It’s our spouses, our kids, our parents, our bosses, our genes, our stars, our leaders, our weather forecasts, and our poverty. It’s NEVER because of US, is it?

This man ought to be ashamed of himself. And this woman ought to take some good advice–leave him while he is still attacking her with garden hoses.

Next time she might not be so lucky.

The biggest problem through the ages was that people really didn’t think for themselves. And it appears that this is still the case.

Never have I seen so many of my fellow Americans running around like children without a supervisor, crying and lost and confused. The sky is falling!! It MUST be!! That is what Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Barney Frank and the President keep telling us!! It MUST be true!!

Most people forget that global warming due to man’s actions is a THEORY, not a fact. After all, the earth did more than its fair share of warming up LONG BEFORE we got here . But the alarmists aren’t able to explain how that happened without the aid of SUVs and factories and capitalism.

Nor can they explain how OTHER planets are warming. They refuse to acknowledge that the SUN is acting in ways that are not typical of our experience. And if the Sun warms everything, and the Sun is acting in odd ways, why COULDN’T the Sun be more of a culprit in “global warming” than man?? Wouldn’t it make sense that our giant ball of fiery gas up in the sky can affect temperatures far more than we realize?? Or far more than WE can?

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) has rightfully ordered an investigation into the EPA’s supposed suppression of a report that did not go along with the lockstep of the global warming alarmists.

Why didn’t the agency pay attention to a nearly 100 page report by EPA analyst Alan Carlin that found the data used to scare the HELL out of us is outdated and that temperatures are actually on the way DOWN??

Carlin is not alone. Many scientists–much more than you’d EVER know from listening to self proclaimed expert Al Gore and others–are warning AGAINST the warnings.

Of course, it’s no surprise if this suppression of the truth proves to be correct. The timing couldn’t have been better–the House last Friday barely passed the invasive and expensive “Cap & Trade” climate bill.

Now it’s off to the Senate where it will hopefully meet solid defeat.

People really need to start thinking for themselves again. And I hope it happens sooner than later.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed a controversial racial case that has now been overturned by the United States Supreme Court.

New Haven, Connecticut ignored the results of a promotions test because minorities were not scoring high enough. Never mind that some white fire fighters DID score high enough. They threw the baby out with the bath water out of fear of alienating the ire of local minorities.

Can you BELIEVE this?? The fear of unrest and lawsuits led the city to discriminate against perfectly qualified contenders–19 whites and 1 Hispanic. Sorry, but it isn’t the fault of one group who does well in something that others can’t or won’t perform to the same standards. It would be like tossing out the honor rolls because everyone can’t meet them. Schools ALREADY do this when they toss out F’s or rule out having Valedictorians because it will hurt the self esteem of the 99% who WEREN’T selected to represent their class. It’s NONSENSE. Dangerous nonsense.

The firefighters argued correctly that discrimination is discrimination, now matter WHO it is directed at. You can’t discriminate against whites or Hispanics anymore than you can discriminate against blacks or Asians or (fill in the blank).

Sotomayor was an appeals court judge at the time, who ruled the city was correct in throwing out the test. She was WRONG. And the Supreme Court has corrected her horrible judgement.

Unfortunately but not at all surprisingly, Justice Ginsberg wrote the dissent. She and Sotomayor are, frankly, cut from the same cloth.

This is exactly why I and many others are against Sotomayor’s confirmation as our next Supreme Court Justice.

Luckily the Supreme Court ruled in favor or fairness and justice and common sense.

It might not do that the next time.

Minutes into my radio show, the legendary performer and entertainment icon had died.

I have reported, sadly, the deaths of many famous people on my show over the years. Politicians, movie stars, authors, humanitarians, local and national icons. I will never forget being called in to do a special edition weekend show back when Princess Di was killed in that horrific car crash.

But to be honest, the death of Michael Jackson hit me more than most have.

Sure he was known most recently for his quirks and downright bizarre behavior. But he will not be remembered for that. The greatness of his talent and musical genius will be his shining testament to a life of entertainment which brought joy and wonder to countless millions around the world.

Michael Jackson was my generation’s Elvis. And his passing must be as shocking to me as the death of Elvis was to my parents and their generation.

I remember vividly buying his albums in San Francisco at the famous Tower Records in North Beach. Sadly, that iconic record store is no more. But for decades, that is where people went to buy new and old music alike.

It was the day of the record store. When Vinyl and cassette were king and a CD was something you put your money into for a safe investment.

I have sweet memories of holding THRILLER in my hands and thinking I had just struck the Motherlode. Now I could listen to the songs over and over and over again.

When the THRILLER video debuted on MTV (back when they played videos), I remember watching it around the clock. Few who saw it at the time could ever forget the extensive “Making Of” documentary that aired so often I think I must have memorized every detail and line.

Michael Jackson’s death has made me quite sad. It made me shoot back to the 80s and re-live the glory of my childhood in San Francisco. In those days I had a full mane of hair, kids had arcades to go to for fun, 64K was all the memory a computer needed, my mother was alive and strong, and life had yet to load my shoulders with the burdens and responsibilities of adult hood.

His death made me miss so many people, and places, and things that have passed from my life as well.

THRILLER came on the radio last evening and my baby girl started grooving to it. She started snapping her fingers at an amazingly young age and she was certainly snapping to that song.

It made me laugh and cry at the same time.

Goodbye Michael. Your passing has filled my heart with sadness. I would like to think you are now doing the Moonwalk beyond the stars, free of pain and pressure and burden.