How to Handle the Progressives

If you look at the 2008 electoral map you will notice most of it is RED. Click http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign08/election/uscounties.html . I would like you to note that by geographic area the country is mostly conservative. I would also like you to note that the parts of the country that actually produce, food, energy, and most products are located in the Red areas, and the that the blue areas are located around the edges (east and left coast) and in the big cities. These areas are geographically small and isolated. If we end up having the liberal/progressive crazies keeping up their onslaught of socialism, the red areas have a pretty good hold on the parts that make society function on a basic level, again food and fuel. I am not suggesting we acutally use this to our advantage, yet, but it is a very interesting observation. No food, no fuel, no power. Just a thought.

The Guvments Ultimate Goal

I have finally come to the conclusion that all this banter in Washington over taxes, bailouts, health care, etc. is basically about our country turning into a democratic dictatorship. The party now in power wants to control everything you do, your business, your health, your children's education, and your money. They realize that the money is key to control of everything else. Mr. Obama wants to take money from those that have it, and set up a tax system that forces you to do what they want to keep them from taking every red cent. Then take that money and give it to the people with less money, and therefore power, to buy their votes for the next election so they can stay in power.

The left is scared of the people in this country that have money (power), influence (power), access to the free press (power), and of course guns (power). The left is terrified of religion because it is another form of organization, and because it replaces the government as the seat of all that is good and powerful. A Higher Power is terrifying to them, since people that believe in that Higher Power are not scared of being defiant of the governments power. The Tea Parties scare the bejeezes out of the left because it is people organizing with out the great community organizers help. I believe that the next round of elections will be tough on this country but we need to split the power base in Washington so that nothing can get done. It seems to work better that way.

This Guy Hits the Nail SQUARE ON THE HEAD!!!

I wish I could take credit for this great piece of work and thoughts, but alas I can't. It came from a message board on Yahoo. Please read and contemplate. This is from Jack in Massachusetts

Obama could not fix this economy if China forgave our whole national debt...His very being as president is to destroy the rich and corporate america so he can tax them to death, where as such new tax will let him create more government and social programs geared for the millions of poor minority folks in this nation.Obama could care less about middle class white america. His presidency is geared for one thing only, take white middle america down and raise poor minority folk america UP. He is an equalizer an chief, not a commander an chief.He envisions a one class wealth system in america. Well, it is up to you now white america. Obama has declared war on you, on your christianity, on your pay checks, even on how and what you should think. There was a little german paper hanger 70 years ago that no one believed during his reign could so turn up-side down a country called germany, then subsequently the world.No, Obama is not Hitler ( although he hates the Jews) but, he is just as dangerous. Freedom is exactly that, Freedom. Look the word up.Freedom is to speak and think as you like, it is to dream for a better life, or just be a lazy fk and sit home collecting welfare, while teaching your children how to grow up and get on welfare also..We now have achieved a forth generational family welfare structure for millions of americans. But for those that would say FREEDOM is the people that dream and work for a better life, then they must destroy their dreams to pay for the latter who choose to sit home and collect from the very government that buys their votes with SOCIAL bribes, by taking the very FREEDOMS away from the people they help. Those people are sick and demented that plan this act of moral treason.There is NOTHING and I mean NOTHING worse then giving people just enough food stamps, just enough welfare money, just enough fuel assistance, just enough housing rent, just enough medical care to let them sit at home in an existence that stole the FREEDOM and the chance for the AMERICAN dream away from them.Oh yes, by doing so you ensure millions of loyal votes for the democrat party, and yes you can pretend how you helped poor america. But in the end your true motive was sinister not compassion, calculated not not sincere. You were trying to ensure a democrat voter base for your party, by taking away the one FREEDOM that every single person in life needs to feel.Necessity!When you take necessity away from poor america, you take their FREEDOM away, for only through necessity do you strive to achieve the very things you need. That is the greatest sin of the democrat party. You rob people of their need to survive, for you give them just enough to do so and expect your thanks at the ballot box.There is a revolt coming, a revolt the likes this nation has never seen. Business are going to re-incorporate overseas, The rich are going to so diversify their holdings into so many sub-entity's that your knew tax increases will fail. Employers are going to cut way back on employee's because of your carbon tax. Farmers just might stop growing crops for one year, that along by in itself would destroy america.Another words democrats, czars and obama, the people are going to rise up against you. In the end, obama will have single handedly destroyed america from with-in after 4 years. And yes in 4 years the media will blame it on President Bush.

Vegans are killing the world!!!!!!

I am going to start a new food movement, watch out Southern Foodways Alliance. I believe that the vegans are causing global warming. What happens when you eat only vegetables, especially beans, same problem as cows, who eat only vegetables. In addition, what happens when you kill plants to eat them. They are no longer able to remove the carbon dioxide that causes global warming. So I am proposing that we approach this from a liberal point of view. Step 1. Start a movement to have only synthetically produced food available (anyone remember Soylent Green). Step 2. Tax all vegetables and all other produce ( this would be akin to a carbon tax) and have a progressive tax that the more you eat the more you are taxed. Step 3. Try to convince us that this will save the world and that anyone that is against this movement is a NeoCon.

Sounds crazy doesn't it? Well this is what is happening in Washington right now with the energy, health care, economy, etc. Google the movie Soylent Green and find out that 36 years ago someone was prescient enough to see that big government turns out to only be interested in self perpetuation, and Orwell's 1984 is not so far off either. I believe I am going to have a large steak and baked potato (I am an omnivore!!!) and a large does of the cure. I think the bureaucrats in Washington would legislate much better if they started their day with a fifth for breakfast, maybe they would be asleep by noon and cause us less trouble.

Where do these people come from?

I just love the news we have received today. Republican Governor Mark Sanford went "hiking" supposedly on the Appalachian Trail, which turns out to be code for Argentina, and we can only guess what "hiking" means. He disappearred from the face of the earth, reappears in Atlanta and then goes on to tell us that he "disappointed" and hurt a lot of people. HUH??????????????
I guess he just forgot what the cost for this would be to his sons, wife, and constituents.

I don't understand what it is with people that attain positions of power. I think that they believe they are above morality and that they won't ever get caught. Well lets see, Clinton, Edwards, Kennedy, Guilliani, McCain. What is it with these folks? Does power corrupt and absolute power corrupt absulutely?

Please give me a politician that can keep his pants zipped, follow through on his rhetoric, and walk the walk (including following Christian teachings) and not just talk the talk. And I mean walk the walk for a lifetime not only when convenient. I believe we should insert a morality clause into the constitution that forces politicians to leave office if they are so inclined to venture too far afield. I do believe in redemption, but would rather have good examples for my children. My teenager looked at me and said "at least it wasn't a man". What is this world coming too?

I do pray for these people, and hope they find their way back to the right path.

No wonder that no one trusts politicians.

HEALTH INSURANCE FOR EVERYONE, WHY?

I think the latest healthcare issues are very interesting. I read an article that pointed out that the party in power referred to the "uninsured in America", not "uninsured Americans". I guess that is so they can claim they always meant to insure the illegal aliens, that just happened to come to the US, don't pay taxes, but will probably be counted in the next census run by Mr. Obama and ACORN.

I don't believe that health insurance is a inalienable right, just as having an EBT card and getting to eat steak, while all of the people paying for that EBT card eat hamburger and store brand foods. I think if healthcare is going to be fixed we need to fix the whole damn thing not just the feel good parts that buy votes for the Dems.

Here is my suggestion.

1. Limit malpractice suits to a reasonable level, like $500,000 if the Doc cuts off the wrong leg. (will drive plaintiffs bar crazy, because yachts will be out of the price range with these small settlements).

2. Replace Medicaid with a system of free clinics owned by the government and staffed with left leaning doctors, or better yet PETA people. (Oops I forgot to include free vet clinics in with it).

3. DO not provide medical coverage to illegal aliens unless they pay up front, and don't let babies born to illegals in the US become citizens. (I don't understand how someone here illegally should have the rights of legal citizens).

4. LEAVE me the hell alone about my private health insurance that cost out the tail. Anyway about 1/3 of that goes to cover all the damn people in items 2 and 3.

5. If you insist on universal coverage, let anyone that wants to "opt out" and sign a waiver saying they don't ever want government help, and let me keep my private insurance, and let that develop into a better private healthcare system with on burden from the dead beats.

6. Send all the folks that want universal healthcare to Canada, where they can end up dying waiting to have an ingrown toenail removed.

These guvment people drive me crazy, we need the country run by a bunch of practical people not a bunch of lawyers that could not even cut it as lawyers.

I am going to get a touch of the cure.

PAY CZAR, ARE WE RUSSIAN????

What is this country coming too? Now we have the guvment telling our capitalist (well used to be) companies how much they can pay their muckatemucks. This is pure and simply SOCIALISM. Here is how it works. The guvment is now controlling the banks that will control the money that can be used to bail out the car companies, that can employ the unions (oops, I forgot the unions know own the companies, and control the congress), that will now produce electric cars, so that the oil companies will not have anything to sell, so that we will have to buy more electricity, so that everyone will have to pay higher energy taxes after the cap and trade for carbon emissions, so that we will have to go on welfare, so we can't pay our mortgages, and the we can be all housed in guvment housing (that the chinese own), and buy our groceries with the EBT card, all of this happens after they confiscate our guns because they might get used in the mexican drug wars. This country is going to HELL IN A HANDBASKET, and we are letting it happen. I guess I am going to have to start producing the cure on a commerical basis and barter for my guns and bullets, after I have a touch of the cure.

My new Moto is "Don't Tread on Me!" lookup the Gadsden Flag.

SQUUUUUZEEED

Well I either missed my career choice on the high side or low side, because in the middle sure ain't the place to be. I could have been a Wall Street fat cat and lost billions of dollars and still gotten a huge bonus for last year, more than I will make in most of my life, or a low life lazy bum that gets government handouts, got a $300,000 house on a McDonald's salary and will now get to keep it with our money paying his house note. Where the hell did this come from???? It seems that it is now fiscally irresponsible to pay your bills, live within your means, and act like you have half a bucket of sense.

Were are a month into four years of sheer fiscal HELL. By the time these idiots get done with the economy we will have the standard of living or Rwanda, Botswana, or some other third world country. Nancy and Harry are buying their votes from their constituency right now and when the let all the illegals vote the rest of us will have to move to Canada to feel like we are in a normal democracy, and I thought the Canucks were socialist leaning. My predictions are that the dems will outlaw all guns (scared of a revolution), outlaw liquor (causes diseases), and make marijuana legal to help out their friends south of the border.

WHERE ARE WE HEADED??? I SURE CAN'T TELL, EXCEPT DOWN THE PRIMROSE PATH.

STIMULATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn, I'm terribly stimulated, even after Evan Williams and I have gone a few rounds. Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid have STIMULATED me to an extreme extent. How can the congress spend $800,000,000,000 (8x10^12, I think I'm right after a few doses of the cure), in less than 24 hours and not even give the American public the time to read the damn thing. Oh, I forgot that about half of the public could not read 1,100 pages of crap in less than a year due to our wonderful education system. I would just take my cut and invest it in rubles, dinars, pesos, or other currency that will be worth at least something in the future. Mr. Obama is turning into the WORST Jimmy Carter that I have ever seen. I,m going back and get another dose of the cure to help me through this. Matter of fact, I am going to load up on several CASES of the cure with some American dollars while they are still worth something. At least I will be able to numb the pain a little on the way.

TAX ISSUES?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Well my friends it seems that the meek are not the only ones that can't seem to pay their taxes properly. Pres. Obama has chosen two, purportedly intelligent, men to head parts of his cabinet that can't even seem to get the tax paying thing correct. I am not sure whether these two fine men were skipping out on paying their taxes, did not think they would be caught, or just could not figure out the damn tax code. I know people that probably fall into all three of these.

I have a solution to the umpteen thousand pages of tax laws. We need a FLAT tax. Just take 10 to 15% of every ones pay, bonuses, capital gains, etc and be done with deductions, loop holes, forgotten little perks, etc. It would cut the need for the IRS, some accountants, and a whole bunch of wasted money getting people to figure out how to keep you from paying your taxes. Oh, wait a minute, that would hurt our economy because it would get rid of government jobs, and seasonal workers from the likes of H&R Block. I guess all the money that would be put back into the economy could not make up for those government jobs.

We need some common sense again, spend less than you make, save your money, do something productive for a living, and help you neighbor. But again that would cut the government out of running our lives for us. I need a real good batch of the cure to get me over these folks.

The TARP

I don't know about where your from, but around these parts we know about the use of a TARP. It is used to cover up JUNK. We use tarps to cover up all our stuff that really isn't worth putting in a building or worrying to much about. We also use them to cover up the stuff that is just so junky that we don't want our neighbors to see. We cover up rusted out trucks, tires, old furniture with peeling veneer, tractor parts, and just about anything else that ain't good enough to put in a proper shed.

Well I think that the folks in Washington finally got an acronym about right. The Trouble Asset Relief Fund (TARP) is just about the same as what we cover our junk with. It is being used to cover up all the Wall Street crap that they don't won't us, their redneck neighbors, to see. And just like a regular tarp this TARP will finally start fraying and getting holes in it so we can see what is hidden underneath. I am afraid that it will be about the same as what is hidden under most tarps. But I guarantee that this junk will be a whole lot uglier and more expensive. My two cents, probably all any of us will have left when this is over.

Lessons from an Old Horse

Sometimes God seems to send strange people or creatures to help teach you things. This week this "learning" has come from an old horse that just sort of ended up with us. We bought a pasture last year with several horses on it, they all needed to be moved before the purchase was complete. Well, sale day came and went and all horses were gone except for one old mare that had feet about as bad as any I had ever seen. The horses owner said that we could have her, most likely not wanting to have to deal with having to take her to a sale or put her down. My farrier (a true horse guru) said that he thought that we might be able to save her. We are a year into getting her back into shape, and making slow progress.

This old girl has taught me much about patience, trust, perseverance, stoic bearing of your circumstances, and love. At first she could take about three steps and stop for 15 minutes to just let her feet rest. On good days she can get into a trot, on bad days she can gimp along a few steps at a time, but he worst days are better than her best when we first came to know her. After almost a year she will now amble over to the fence when I show up just to speak, and even when I have to clean her feet or do other unpleasant things, she never complains and will most likely put her head against your chest when you get done. She is stoic about her situation, never complaining as my other spoiled horses do.

Over the last year I have learned many lessons from this old stray horse. Mostly to be thankful for what you have. As bad as she had it in the past, it seems God found a way for her to be taken care and for her to teach some horse novices lesson not only about horses but about life. God seems to have strange ways of working and through some unlikely creatures. I believe that she has faith that she will be taken care of, even though sometimes the things that we have to do to her probably are scary and unpleasant, she still takes it all in stride and with great grace. I hope that I truly absorb these lessons and can apply them in my life. Never overlook the things in life that are trying to teach you something. It has taken me along time to realize that this old girl was given to me for a multitude of reasons and the most important has been to teach me several lessons that I probably had not listened to before. I hope you all have a very Merry CHRISTmas. Please remember the reason for the season.

WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Last month it was 25 BILLION now it is 34 BILLION. The car folks are like teenagers asking for more cash and not telling us that the extra 9 BILLION is to buy extra beer with. WHAT ARE THEY THINKING. If we give them that much money the auto companies should give each taxpaying American a damn free car and then they would be bankrupt anyway. I should at least get another truck out of the deal before I have to buy a Japanese psuedotruck. Congress is just pandering to the unions, management is trying to figure out how to put up enough money to retire to the Caribbean, Gettlefinger is just trying to figure out what happened, and they all are trying to hurry up and get done before the taxpayer figures out that someone forgot the Vaseline. I am glad to own horses. At least I will be able to get from one place to the other when our country is bankrupt. I also know how to grow my own food, kill my own meat, fix a 40 year old tractor, build my own buildings, and I have a nice 78 El Camino that will work just fine to get me from one place to another without computer to breakdown. We will soon be back to where we belong. As Bocepheus says A Country Boy Can Survive. I am going for a great big tumbler of the cure so I can forget this nonsense for at least an hour or two.

Cold Weather Ride

Ain't nothin' better than a good ride on a cold crisp afternoon. All our "donkeys" behaved for the most part. Big Dog my QH acted up just enough to make it fun, he usually has a couple of good kicks before his first canter of the day. The two fillys took off and had a good time except for the normal mare moments between the two. Still trying to figure out who is boss. It was a beautiful afternoon and a good way to waste time before gun season opens. Won't be much hoss riding once deer season opens, to busy and to many folks can't tell the difference in a horse and a big doe. I guess the house democrats can't tell the difference and that is why they support gun control, don't want any horses being mistaken for deer, just kidding, the just don't like venison steak. That must be the true mark of a socialist/communist. Don't need no firearm to kill a tofu.

Have a great week in this GREAT country of ours, and straigh shootin next weekend.

The Cure for the Auto Industry

NO IT IS NOT BOURBON. But you could use a sure nuff good dose for pain relief if they use my proposal.

Here it is. LET EM FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Use a preplanned bankruptcy like the airlines used. Here is what you get reorganized streamlined automotive manufacturers more focused on what we want and better able to compete with the "foreign" automakers that make cars in such foreign places like Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama; debt restructured such that they can pay for it, pension plan benefits that are more on a normal level, and a new contract for the UAW that is overseen by the court such that the benefits are more in-line with the level of profit each employee provides to the company. Detroit's cost are 2.5 to 3x the "foreign" automakers, and everyone wonders why Detroit cars are lower quality for the same price. If they could put the labor cost into quality improvements, we could get the same car for 10 to 15% less and have the Big 2.5 make a profit.

I do not want to see the U.S. automakers fail, but sometimes it takes a Phoenix type revival to start again. I agree that the U.S. auto industry has suffered mismanagement in the past, but the UAW is over 50% of the problem. It is now a time to give the UAW a choice. Good paying jobs for the next 100 years or a great paying job for the next six months. Gettlefinger has a tough choice take a hard line and become irrelevant, or swallow his pride and do what is best for his union members, the auto industry, and the country. We shall see what choice he makes.

Free Choice?

What do you call a choice between signing a union card and taking a bullet (just figuratively, natch)? FREE CHOICE. At least that is what the liberals, UAW, and Nancy P. call it. How can you call being FORCED to sign a Union Card free choice. This country was built on one person one vote, by secret ballot. This act will just force the rest of industry to follow in the footsteps of the Big Three (now Big None) and go right down the tubes. The UAW has taken a turnip and squeezed all of the blood out and now keeps squeezing with the help of Nancy P. and Harry R.

How can you be competitive if you have a cost structure about 2.5x that of your competitors? Well you legislate your competitors into submission. Then your cars will cost $40K for a Corolla and you will have to finance that for at least 10 years.

Please will someone get us back on track. We cannot keep up the madness. Please visit Grassfire.org for some saneness. I am going to take a sip of Basil to calm the nerves and hope to have a revelation about how we can get ourselves out of this quandry. I pledge to blog more often. Been depressed about this whole stockmarket, political, president thing. My bright spot has been kids, horses, and church. At least these are as constant as 12 year olds and mares can be.

What Now?

Congratulations Mr. Obama. The country has elected its' first black president and this bodes well for putting aside racial questions for the future. He was elected by the complete color spectrum. Although I do not share his left wing liberal political views, I do wish him well and I hope he will govern from the center for the good of the USA. If Mr. Obama, Ms. Pelosi, and Mr. Reid use this occasion only to advance the far left agenda, it will come back to haunt them for a very long time.

I am concerned about the direction our nation will now move. I see many of the older laws that are now no longer needed ( i.e affirmative action legislation). I do agree that change is needed, but not liberal, leftist change. I am a staunch conservative on fiscal policy, and big government, somewhat more centrist on personal issues.

We must hope that Mr. Obama's harsh rhetoric against certain industries, for higher taxes on those that have the means to drive the economy, and on certain environmental issues that could cause the US to be uncompetetive were just that, rhetoric to help him get elected. We must pray that he picks a more centrist cabinet and works toward the center, although his past legislative agenda does not point to this.

We must also hope that Mr. Obama will not kow-tow to his base and just hand out money. He must use the bully-pulpit to drive those that do not want to work to take part and be productive in this nation. He must use this opportunity to push for all people to be productive parts of the society, including the 40% that do not currently pay income tax. I do hope that this will show all people that the USA is the land of opportunity, where hardwork can make a difference and let you get ahead. If Mr. Obama is nothing else it he is an example of what hardwork and initiative can bring.

The conservatives must now regroup and find a way to be relavent in the current political atmosphere. I believe that all conservatives must now work together to ensure that we do not allow the far left to become the absolute rulers of this country.

I do believe that this is a watershed moment in the history of our country. I does truly matter how the country reacts whether it is positive or negative. If we become divided with hate groups on both sides (i.e. KKK and Black Panthers) this potentially positive happening could bring mass chaos, political and social unrest, and race wars. Our country does not need this at anytime but especially not now.

We must all pray for our Country and our elected officials, and hope that they do believe in God and will ask for his divine guidance.

I hope I will be in my usual ironically satirical mood soon. This election has worn me out as I suspect it has many other.

Selfish, Hell Yea!

Selfish because I don't want to pay a higher tax rate.? Well, Yea. The libs want to feel better with the self flagalation of higher taxes. It will make them feel better because they are helping someone. We conservatives are real "selfish" because we give our money directly our "selfish" alma maters to help with scholarships for the less privaleged, our "selfish" churches for mission work and helping the poor, our "selfish" local charities that help the local needy. Yea, we conservatives are really "selfish". Especially Mississippi conservatives, who by the way have the highest per capita giving based on income level in the country. By the way, Joe B. gave something like a whopping $900 last year as charitable giving.

The libs just want to take your money and make themselve feel generous by letting the government use the money as they see fit. And benefits them through the purchase of votes with our charitable tax money, and giving to the likes of ACORN. That's the bottom line. Higher taxes=less money for charities. They want to redistribute your money to make themselves feel better, while their Presidential Candidate stays at a ritzy New York Hotel and orders IRANIAN caviar.

I'll just stay selfish thank you very much, and the "selfish" charities will probaby thank me.

Presidentail Positivity.

I have decided to be positive about the possibility of a Obiden presidency. Here are the great and wonderful things that will be brought to us.

1. Within two weeks of taking office we will be able to burn a Cuban legally.
2. Within in two years it will take 5 years to have the surgery to help cure the lung cancer caused by the Cuban. But everyone will have equal non-access to health care.
3. We will earn a wonderful guaranteed return on our state sponsored pensions (at least 3% less than the inflation rate).
4. No one will worry or stress over their jobs. Why work hard, Comrade, you will end up with the same pay if you are excavating a ditch with a shovel or are the founder of Google.
5. We will finally be able to listen to liberals on Talk Radio.
6. Bow season will be a lot longer.

I sure hope they don't outlaw the Cure, we will all need a heavy dose.

Now They Want to Take Your Steak and Feed You Alpo

It now appears that the possible three headed dog (Pelosi, Reid, and maybe Obama) are looking hungrily at your 401K. Seems that all that talk about redistribution is making them even more likely to try to redistribute even more. Now who would you rather trust with your retirement funds, the folks that end up with $6,000 dollar toilet seats on our bombers when Wally World has them for $6. This is exactly where your money could be going, right down there under your toilet seat. Looks like the liberal braintrust now wants to keep your money, make you pay 5% more of what you earn into a federal pension plan, and then give you a 3% return. Will you even put your money in a 6 month CD at 3%, I sure won't. The possible Three Headed Dog will likely also have a big appetite for more of our money and will even try to tell us how to spend what they don't take. I wish I had enough imagination to make all this up. I guess I will need a really big dose of the CURE to get over even the thought of this. Here is the link to the story.