Let me get this straight . . .

We’re going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose head says he doesn’t understand it,

passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it,
signed by a president that also hasn’t read it and who smokes,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes,
overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and
financed by a country that’s nearly broke.

What could possibly go wrong?

You only have to look at the Cash For Clunkers debacle to see how Congress and the President can screw stuff up, big time. And now they want us to believe they can run Socialized Medicine!

Why does a President need a national civilian security force that is just as well equipped, funded and trained as our combined Military? Where the hell is all this money going to come from?

Like Glenn, I want to know why we need such a thing? Who, or what, is Barack Obama so scared of that he would undertake building such an army?

Here are some of my thoughts on the whole deal.

First off, such a force would be able to work against the Citizens. Currently, the military is prohibited by the Constitution from taking action against U.S. Citizens on U.S. soil. So a National Civilian Security Force would be just the ticket to get around that.

Such a Force would likely be loyal only to the President instead of the Country or its citizens. Just like Sadam’s Fedayeen Soldiers were only loyal to him or Hitler’s SS Troops who were loyal to him instead of the Country. Scary. Also, such a force could be used to keep tabs on our Military and intervene should they try and take action against another “force” on U.S. soil.

I’m unaware of any Country that is a free Republic that has a Leader with it’s own security forces. We usually think of those little turds of the third world countries when we think of this.

Furthermore, such a force could be directed to do the grunt work of the President, directed to do things he didn’t want to dirty his hands with, like disbanding protest, confiscating firearms from Citizens, invoking Marshal Law, taking over Radio and TV stations, spying on civilians and a lot of other stuff.

I’m wanting to believe none of this will happen and that the thought of Obama creating a National Civilian Defense Force is just a pipe dream for him. But I’m beginning to see the writing on the wall and I don’t like what I’m reading.

Funny, it’s usually the Democrats who are whining that we spend too much money on National Defense and the Military, now we have a Democratic President who wants to spend the dough to raise a Civilian Army. Not only that, but he wants to equip and train them to be just as powerful as the U.S. Military.

And they have the gall to call this ad “partison”.

NBC said it would reconsider the ad if it was revised. But they didn’t give any indications which part they wanted revised…probably the part containing the truth about this health care reform.

But I think for posterity’s sake I’ll just mention in passing that Ted Kennedy probably did more to harm this Country than any other politician I can think at the moment. He certainly never did live up to the standards set by Jack and Robert. He worked to pass nearly every liberal agenda he could. He worked hard to open the flood gates of illegal immigration. He fought hard to take away our 2nd Amendment rights and much more.

In the upcoming weeks we’re going to hear about how great he was. Obviously only Liberals and those In Mass. thought he was great. For some reason Mass. voters could never see through him to see how he only worked for whatever was in HIS best interest. Outside of Mass., he never had the respect that Liberals would like you to think he had. Just mentioning his name conjured up images of everything that is wrong with this Country and none of the good. Yet, the people of Mass. could never understand why the were looked down on or made the butt of Ted Kennedy jokes by the rest of the Country.

I do feel for his family. It’s hard for any family to deal with a death. My thoughts and prayers will go out to his family. I’ll also say a prayer for him, because I think he’s going to need it.

Anyway, this theif grabs some beer and takes off from this C store. Clerk follows him outside and unleashes 12 rounds at him. The perp gets in a getaway car driven by his buddy and passes out. Apparently one of the 12 rounds found its mark. Buddy freaks out and ditches his car with his buddy still inside. Then after a while he calls 911 to tell them where the car is.

When the Police find the getaway driver, he’s in the middle of reporting his car being stolen. After some questioning, he admits the whole deal.

Now the Cops go back to the C store and arrest the clerk for shooting the thief. The clerks apparently picked up the brass and put it in his car, picked up the dropped beer and put it in the trash.

Sorry, I don’t see a problem here!

I’m sick and tired of hearing people say “It’s not worth killing someone over a 12 pack of beer”.

Well, you know what? When the thief stole the beer, he was telling everyone that his life was worth the price of a 12 pack (or 6 pack, whatever it was). Because the moment he made the decision to steal, that’s when he put a value on his life.

Why blame the clerk, or anyone else for that matter, for punching his clock? If the thief thought his life was more than a pack of beer, he should have acted like it.

I get fed up with these slimy liberals whining about crooks when they get what they have coming at the end of a gun barrel. It’s the crooks who are deciding that their actions are worth their life, not the victims they prey on.

If the liberal establishment in Austin goes ahead and puts this kid on trial for shooting this thug, I hope there are at least one or two real Texans on the jury who can explain to the rest of the liberals and would-be thieves that honest people are fed up with them and aren’t going to take it any longer.

You can read more about it here on the Statesman’s website.

What is even more ironic is that Obama invited Congressmen to the White House to read the bill “line by line”. Yet, Obamas press secretary couldn’t tell reporters whether or not Obama himself would read the bill when asked. Instead, Robert Gates, Obama’s press secretary, tried to turn the tables on the reporter by asking him if he’d had read the bill. Typical Whitehouse Whitewashing.

If you never ate at Lenox’s, then you missed out. Anytime I was on the East side working, I tried to stop in for lunch. The Customers were a true mix of the cultures that make up Houston and the food was second to none! I’m sad to see ‘em go but the Owners say they’ll still be catering and delivering food. They’re also thinking about opening another restaurant someplace in the area.

Still, after 63 years it’s sad to see a place like Lenox’s get demolished because of so called “progress for the City”. Which, most anyone who has a lick of common sense knows exactly what it is and it’s not progress!

Bush Outclasses Obama

In fact, do you remember what Bush did when asked about the protesters? He simply said they had a right to protest. Even Hillary Clinton stated that that it was an American’s job to question the President and Congress during the time when War protest were breaking out everywhere.

Funny how the Democrats forget such things when they are the ones being protested!

Obama and the Democrats have called people protesting against his Socialized Medicine and other wacked out plans as “unAmerican”, Mobs, unruly and other negative comments. All the while Obama ignores his falling approval rating and polls showing his Socialized Health Care Reform as being unpopular among Americans.

In fact now the Democrats and the White House have turned to low-down sneaky tactics to keep legitimate voters from attending Town Hall Meetings. The Democrats new tactics is to cancel these Town Hall meetings altogether or set them up as Teleconferences. And when they do show up, as video’d at a recent Town Hall Meeting, they’re sending ACORN and SEIU members in the back door to fill up the first half or more of the seats so they can’t be filled by voters wanting the truth on these programs. They’re also using Union (SEIU and others) and ACORN members  to keep those who disagree with the President or the Congressional leaders out of these Town Hall meetings.

All this from a President and the Democratic Party who stated more than once that they would bring this country together, provide transparency and work together with everyone. You can add that to a long list of campaign promises that Barack Obama has blown off since becoming President!

What the White House did was remove several sectors (like those who gave up looking for a job and left the workforce) from the reports so the numbers would look a lot better than what they are. In actuality, the job numbers are worse than they were for June.

Here’s what Obama had to say after the news came out…

“The worst may be behind us,” “Today, we’re pointed in the right direction.”

Of course, the Obamanator forgot to mention he left some very, very important information out of the report so he and the liberal media could make the report look favorable.

Just some of the same ole, same ole from Obama these days. Of course, this isn’t the first time the Administration has been caught cooking the books to make the White House look better. And he’s only been in Office 6 months!

But not Lloyd Doggett. He vows to keep trying to push the snake oil package on the citizens he’s suppose to be representing. Seems to me that he’s more concerned with how he will be perceived by Nancy Pelosi and Obama rather than by the voters who put him in office to begin with.  Obviously Lloyd Doggett lost touch with his voters. It’s time to send Lloyd Doggett home at the next election, but do Austin area voters have what it takes to do so?

Lloyd Doggett’s stand on Universal Health Care.

Notice he says in the video that it will only cover 4% of the people at a cost of 1.6 TRILLION dollars. Or that’s what they’re telling us now. These are the same people that said the Cash For Clunkers Program would last for a month. We know how well that turned out don’t we!

And yet, Doggett and other politicians are not willing to put their self under the same health care program that they’re trying to push on us…wonder why?

So after hearing the B.S in that video clip, you can start to understand why people are so outraged. This is what happened when Doggett was cornered in a parking lot recently. Seems some good folks around Austin are starting to wake up and realize that Doggett does not have their best interest at heart, but rather Pelosi’s, Obama’s and the Democratic Party. Oh, and I just love the way he said “…a great President like Barack Obama”! I’ve a$$ kissing before, but he clearly takes the cake!

Keeping the pressure on these bozo’s who think they know what we need more than we do is one of the ways to get their attention. The Democrats and the White House have started a massive campaign to decry these protest as something from a “few” right wing nut jobs.

when I see the White House and Democrats doing this, all it means is they’re trying to say you don’t count. Well, I see a ground swell of people who are being tired of not being counted and Lloyd Doggett is seeing and hearing them also!

Hmm. Wouldn’t you think “organized” would be when one group hires community activist group and busses volunteers to someplace with commercial made signs to protest? For example, when George Soro’s backers hired Acorn to find volunteers and bussed them to Conn. where AIG execs lived so they could protest at their homes? Yet, the media, White House and Democrats never had nothing to say about that.

Now with Obama’s and Democrats approval rating tanking, even among Democrats, the White House and the DNC are coming out swinging at the grass roots groups who are fed up with their attempt at railroading the Health Care and other socialist reforms on America. A lot like they lashed out at the Average Joe for asking Obama a serious question to which he couldn’t, or wouldn’t, answer honestly.

Harry Reid took a page out of Nancy Pelosi’s playbook recently by holding up Astro Turf and calling the protest “organized” by the right wing conservatives.

They totally ignore the fact that their approval rating, even among Dems and especially among Independents, are falling fast.

They just don’t get it!

They don’t get that Americans are waking up and getting off their asses and fighting back.

They don’t get that we’ve had enough. We were fed up with out of control Government spending under Bush. We took Obama at his word that he would bring everyone together and control Government spending. Well, we’ve learned his word isn’t worth squat and that he’s divided this country more than Bush or anyone else ever thought about doing it. Just look at the fiasco he caused when  his buddy Professor Gates was arrested.

And now they insist on ignoring the ground swell of opposition to this Socialized Health Care Reform Plan of theirs and vow to go at it alone without the Republicans if they have to.  They’re counting on Americans to have a short attention span again and counting on all those who sit around and live off the Government tit to bail them out come election time again. That’s why they’re only mildly worried about these town hall protest.

If it’s one thing they understand, it’s that those who depend on the Government for all their needs will always vote for those they believe they can get the most from. Sadly, many Republicans have started to think this way.

In a way, I hope they do go at it alone. If the American people will remember how mad they were at this time, then the DNC going at it alone will be a good idea. Then people will wake up and correct their mistake and send ‘em back home at next Fall’s election. Yeah, I see that happening!

Hey, I mean abortion is a choice if you listen to them, but paying for it is the taxpayer’s responsibility the way they think. This is just another reason why this bill needs flushed down the toilet and any politician voting for it needs defeated and sent home in the next elections.

Funny, I haven’t heard this on any of the mainstream media outlets, have you?

You see, Randalls has this policy against their employees chasing crooks. Okay, that’s cool. It’s their store and they can make their own policy. But what about using just a wee bit of common sense here? One of their customers, inside their own store, was calling for help. Now some could say that Randalls failed to provide adequate security for their customers, which led to this purse snatching to happen in the first place, but we’re not going there. That’s a whole story in itself.

Anyway, the lady was calling out for help. A Randalls employee responded and helped the lady. Troy simply followed the crook and directed police to his location. I don’t think you could actually call that chasing, but Randalls does and had the fortitude to fire Troy over the phone after meeting with him earlier in the week. Wow, what a stand up company!

I think that the lady who’s purse was snatched summed it up well…

“He heard me needing help, and he helped me. And then you fire him in this economy? It’s just wrong,” she said. “It is absolutely wrong.”

This is just another reason in a long line of reasons I don’t shop at Randalls. I haven’t stepped foot in one of their stores in years. I’ve always found better produce, prices and customer service at HEB, Fiesta and Krogers.

Some are calling for boycotting Randalls. I’m not going to go that far. I’ll tell you that it’s their store and they get to make policy. If they want to be complete jerks about this, that’s their right. As a Consumer, you have the right to shop other grocery stores such as Kroger, HEB or Fiesta if you do not agree with them making an exception to this rule or do not agree with them on anything!

Just keep in mind, that if you’re mugged at/in a Randalls food store, the employees are prohibited from helping!

I was in Krogers yesterday buying produce and noticed that much of it was either from the Valley or from Mexico. How hard would it be for the Swine Flu Virus to hitch a ride on produce imported from Mexico? Not that hard I would think. If the Virus is easy enough to catch just by touching a door knob or another object that an infected person has touched, then it’s not that far fetched to think that produce or other products handled by infected people would be contaminated.

I don’t know what you would have done, but I passed on anything imported from Mexico.

Of course our Government would never step up and shut down imported goods from Mexico. So that leaves you and me to protect our Families by being educated as to where your food is coming from. You can choose whatever you want, but for the time being, I’ll stay clear of Mexican restaurants, produce from Mexico and anything else that comes from below the border or where immigrants are known to work at.

You’ll have to decide for yourself if it’s smart to boycott products from Mexico due to the Swine Flu. I’m just giving you some food (no pun intended) for thought.

I guess you could argue that it’s better late than never, but really, 5 days? Perhaps he was busy trying to keep his illegal alien Aunt from being deported?

Now what should happen is that we have swift and decisive air strikes followed by a land invasion from the Marines on every little crap hole these so called Pirates hang out. We know where they’re at but do you think Obama will do that? If you do, please, hold your breath until he does.

In fact, this is what Obama had to say about the rescue.

…the United States needs help from other countries to deal with the threat of piracy and to hold pirates accountable

Have you noticed a pattern with Barrack lately? According to him, America is always needing help with something! We need help with the financial crisis, help at helping others, help to fight piracy, etc. You see what is happening here? Obama’s trying to steer us to thinking we need the World’s help in every matter at home and abroad. That’s called transnationalism and Obama has bigger plans for it than Bush every thought about having.

I’ll bet that Obama will probably have those SEAL Team members demoted for killing the Pirates. He probably just wanted them shot in the arm or leg, not killed. Probably didn’t want their feelings hurt by taking away their hostage.

Kudos to the Navy SEALs, Captain Phillips and the Crew of the hijacked ship. They proved to be Americans. They fought back! They didn’t wait to be negotiated over. They saw evil and beat it back even though they had no guns. How many of those other hijacked ships or more than 200 hostages still being held by Somalian Pirates do you think would be there if they had fought back like these Americans? Damn few!

What Do Somali’s Think Of The Rescue of Capt. Phillips?

AP did a story about the rescue. It said that most Somaili’s are sympathetic to the Pirates but worry that some nations will retaliate and attack they towns the live in. Especially if the Pirates/terrorist take revenge out on some of the other hostages they are holding.

Personally, I’m sure that if it’s up to Obama, that guy has nothing to worry about!

The AP interviewed one Pirate who said that it was a “painful experience” learning about his dead Pirate buddies. Personally, I think we should make it a painful experience for all of his Pirate/terrorist friends.

But the Somalian Pirate then went on to say this:

This is unfortunate action and our friends should have done more to kill the captain before they were killed. This will be a good lesson for us

Ahhh…this is what happens Mr. Obama when you drag your feet and the enemy, yes I said enemy, thinks you’re weak.

It’s said you can tell a Pirate in Somalia when you see one because they are fat and happy.

It’s about time we made it to where the Somalian Citizens have a career choice of being a skinny and sad fisherman versus being a Fat and dead Pirate.