Good Riddance

Famous Republican in name only (RINO) Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania announced today that he would be switching parties, joining his buddies on the Donkey side of the aisle moving forward. He has been a Republican Senator for 29 years. He can say what he wants to, but the main reason he is making the switch in my humble opinion is that he knows that he would lose in the Republican primary to his newest conservative challenger. So instead of standing up and being strong in his stance, he chooses to wuss out and go where winning is easier in his opinion. Pretty gutless move but I expect no more from him. He has long been a stain on the conservative ideals that the Repub's claim to hold dear, so I am glad to see him go. He is one of the three idiot Repubs who voted in favor of Obama/Reid/Pelosi's stimulus plan earlier this year, ensuring that the monstrosity passed in the Senate.

So, in the words of somebody famous... "Don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya."
Adios.

Reality check for me

Getting away from politics for a few minutes to show some pics of the tornado damage that hit our area last night. The damage occurred less than a 1/4 mile from our house. Pretty amazing considering there was no damage to our neighborhood. My take is that our hood is protected by the mountain that we sit up against. We sit on the northeast side of Sweat Mountain, and the tornado touched down just on the north side of us, as the storm was moving to from the southwest to the northeast pretty rapidly. Luckily, no one was hurt, but according the AJC 12 homes were destroyed and about a hundred damaged....

Tax Day and Tea Party

Well now that is four days past Tax Day, I hope everyone can get back to normal and forget about the little tea parties that took place through many cities and towns across the USA. You know, they were just a bunch of racists and idiots that don't want to pay their 'fair share' of taxes to help support all the unfortunate citizens of this country who just can't seem to get out and get it done for themselves. We should just forget that so many of us lined the streets to demonstrate against the ever increasing power surge of the federal government and the accompanying debt that it is creating.... No, I am not on drugs people. Just having a little sarcastic moment.

Looks like the Tea Parties drew between 520,000 and 580,000 US citizens out to the streets to protest the ways our government is attempting to take over our daily lives. I was in Savannah, GA on Wednesday, and witnessed hundreds of people shouting through the streets and carrying the signs of freedom and liberty. The best part for me was that most of the demonstrators looked like college students and other young people. A little ironic considering how our brainwashing centers (universities) typically get their students involved in liberal movements. It was great to see the excitement and enthusiasm that the crowd brought out. The key to this being a success will be the continued emphasis that we as citizens put on this issue to our local, state, and federal officials, because the main stream media is not going to give this another second of coverage.

Most of the media wants to label the movement as anti-Obama, or racist, or redneck, or whatever other negative label they can make up. At its core, the movement is about getting our government spending under control and doing it now. No more, no less. The federal government is growing every day, and concurrently so is our debt. So thanks to everybody who participated and will continue to fight for our rights of liberty and freedom.

Pay For Performance Bill... yeah right

Take a few minutes and watch this clip of Neil Cavuto from Fox News interviewing the chief sponsor of the Pay for Performance piece of junk. Its amazing how futile arguing with a liberal is. By the way, for those of you in Florida, this man represents a district in your state....

Perusing the news this morning, I came across this little morsel of goodness that we call the Federal Government at its finest. More specifically, our wonderful Congressmen (and Congresswomen, in the name of political correctness) have decided that the American people have empowered them with the right to set limits on compensation for companies receiving taxpayer funding. At first glance, many folks might believe this to be a good thing. But I beg you please to think again. Does anyone that has any desire for personal success want Congress to set pay limits for what we can do? Its fundamentally wrong and goes against all notions of pay for performance (which ironically, is the name of the bill. I guess its Opposite Day), as artificial ceilings on comp do not aid in growth. Who in their right mind would take a job at one of these companies? Quick hint: someone who already works in the most inefficient bureaucracy around.... if you don't know the answer, you haven't been reading this blog. These companies will fail or need even more government intervention to survive because they won't have the best people in place to make it work. And the best people should be compensated the best. Not only that, but the bill sets no standard for excessive pay, as that will be left up to the Treasury Secretary. Are you freaking serious?!! Tim Geithner will be setting pay levels? The man who cheated on his own taxes, who now heads the IRS, who would be open to a world currency that would supplant the dollar and thereby weaken the United States, who formerly headed the FED Reserve New York last year and helped lead the way of this bailout process, etc, etc, etc, this man to set pay for private sector employees? I'm embarassed for any congressperson (I am so politically correct) that think we our dumb enough to think this is good for our country.

G20

Well Happy April Fool's Day to all of you readers out there, or both of you, whatever. I throw this out there to say that what follows is true, not a joke or prank for this fine worldwide holiday. As crazy as it seems, it is real. I don't claim that these people make any sense whatsoever, or that they are being truthful with themselves, but the stories are true nonetheless.

The G-20 Summit is set to meet in London tomorrow to discuss the world's financial crisis and figure out a way for our corrupt and inept governments to solve the problem that they in large part created. Should be interesting to hear how these "leaders" plan to get us back on the track to prosperity.... wait, that is an incorrect statement. Let's rephrase and say... these "leaders" plan to get us on track to complete dependence on government and forget freedom and prosperity. Now that is more like it. With all of these leaders in one place, they make an easy target for protesters from around the globe. According to an AP report, the protest group is filled with "over 4,000 anarchists, anti-capitalists, environmentalists, and others." Read it here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_re_eu/g20_protests), or just take my word for it. I can't help but laugh to think that anarchists and anti-capitalists are protesting side by side, because they are polar opposites and probably don't even know it. It seems that all of these activists want to blame the financial services markets and the "greed" of capitalists for the problems we face. What they don't realize is that their governments are the issue, yet they want their governments to control prosperity, so its "fair". Bogus. If these clowns could think through a logical argument instead of throwing tomatoes at banks then they would realize that their prosperity and livelihood is at stake, just not in the way they think. But then again, these are emotionally-driven reactors that wouldn't know how to take real initiative if their life depended on it, which, ironically, it does.

So I'll wait with baited breath to see what these protesters do next, or not. I also look forward to hearing what comes out of the actual meetings tomorrow, or not. Pardon my cynicism today, it must be the fact that I wish this was all just a cruel April Fool's Day joke, but we really are heading straight to the toilet. We have mass hysteria about bankers making profits, we want greater government intervention to make things fair for those who are too lazy, weak, or unmotivated to get ahead in life, and we have world leaders getting together to plot just how to create more dependence on the power centralized in our capitals. Its disgusting yet true, and those of us who actually take initiative to reach our own prosperity are the ones who will be footing the bill for this nonsense. Profit is bad, fairness is good. Individualism and self-reliance have been replaced with collectivism and entitlements. We must no longer think for and of ourselves, because that inflicts damage on others that won't suck it up and go make it on their own. In the name of fairness, let's all concede our liberties and freedom to that monster that is taking more of it each and every day.

Speaking of taking, Tax Day is rapidly approaching. I for one can't wait to give Tim Geithner (who didn't pay his taxes, FYI) and his IRS crew my hard earned dough. But that story will wait for another day.