I don't know if I've ever seen anything like it in my lifetime. The list is long of reasons why we don't need Obama as our next President. From endorsements from Farrakhan, Castro, and Rev. Wright to friendships with known terrorists (Ayers), stances on economics and energy that will surely result in us teetering over the edge of the economic cliff that we now sit upon. Obama is the most liberal politician we've ever had. He claims Christianity while voting 100% morally and ethically against Christian principles. Now it seems, due to the media's love affair with him and coverage of his overseas trip, he is not only already President but acts as if he wants to be king of the world.
We need to keep in mind we are only seeing what the media wants us to see.
Evidence is in this video (which you won't see on the news) from a blog I happened upon today. The video shows Obama being heckled in Israel. You can hear Israelis in the background shouting "Obama, Israel is not for sale" and "Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale". Obama goes to the wailing wall looking very uncomfortable. I wonder why he looks so uncomfortable standing in one of the most holy places on earth?
I have a message for Obama: Barack, America is not for sale either!! There are enough well-grounded, logical thinking, moral, die-hard Americans to keep you from screwing up our country more than it already is.
A lot of these good people are on Street Knowledge (the blog posting the "heckling Obama video")
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Obama- The King of Political Jibberish
January 17, 2007 Barack Obama said, "I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there". He went on to say, "In fact, I think it will do the reverse."
It turned out that the surge worked and was an astounding success. Violent attacks against US troops and Iraqi citizens are down 80%. Over 90% of Iraqi territory is now quite safe.
Obama was asked, knowing what we know now, if he should have supported the surge. He said, "No", and went on to say this:
"Well, no, keep -- these kinds of hypotheticals are very difficult. Hindsight is 20/20. I think what I am absolutely convinced of is that at that time, we had to change the political debate, because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with."
Huh? What in the world did that statement even mean? Sounds like just a bunch of political jibberish to me. The thing that gets me about Obama is not only the fact that he is the king of political jibberish, but he also can't admit when he is wrong. It takes a real man to admit he is wrong.
Do we really want someone who is an expert at putting on a facade and spouting off political jibberish to be our next president?
It turned out that the surge worked and was an astounding success. Violent attacks against US troops and Iraqi citizens are down 80%. Over 90% of Iraqi territory is now quite safe.
Obama was asked, knowing what we know now, if he should have supported the surge. He said, "No", and went on to say this:
"Well, no, keep -- these kinds of hypotheticals are very difficult. Hindsight is 20/20. I think what I am absolutely convinced of is that at that time, we had to change the political debate, because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with."
Huh? What in the world did that statement even mean? Sounds like just a bunch of political jibberish to me. The thing that gets me about Obama is not only the fact that he is the king of political jibberish, but he also can't admit when he is wrong. It takes a real man to admit he is wrong.
Do we really want someone who is an expert at putting on a facade and spouting off political jibberish to be our next president?
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Customer Service at it's worst
12/26/05 I bought a 50" LCD projection TV for $2000. It was really nice to have that big picture and great sound. It was a Hitachi. Hitachi has always been a leader in quality. However, this wasn't true with my TV. Approximately 9 months after buying the TV the lamp went out. It turns out that lamps are not covered by the warranty. I figured no big deal. I'll get a new lamp. I didn't know that lamps cost $250 each! I bought it, put it in myself, and thought everything was good. Then a year and a week after buying the TV the remote quit working. I went back to Circuit City (where I bought the TV) and told them about the remote. I thought they would honor the warranty since it was only a week out of warranty. No such luck. They tried to sell me a universal remote. No thanks.
This story is not over yet. Far from it. At the 2 year old mark of the TV, it started intermittently turning off and then back on. I emailed Hitachi to see what it could be and if they would do something to reverse my now bad opinion of their products. They told me the TV was out of warranty and only could give me a number of a repairman close to me. When I did a search for the repairman on the internet I found out the company had an unsatisfactory report by the Better Business Bureau!
Moral of the story:
Don't buy Hitachi. Not only are their products apparently no longer made with quality, but their customer service leaves something to be desired.
I may as well have taken $2000 and threw it in the river. Which is probably what I'm going to do with this TV.
This story is not over yet. Far from it. At the 2 year old mark of the TV, it started intermittently turning off and then back on. I emailed Hitachi to see what it could be and if they would do something to reverse my now bad opinion of their products. They told me the TV was out of warranty and only could give me a number of a repairman close to me. When I did a search for the repairman on the internet I found out the company had an unsatisfactory report by the Better Business Bureau!
Moral of the story:
Don't buy Hitachi. Not only are their products apparently no longer made with quality, but their customer service leaves something to be desired.
I may as well have taken $2000 and threw it in the river. Which is probably what I'm going to do with this TV.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Obama- Learning as you go
"Flip-flopping" is the new word used a lot recently concerning Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. He has been "flip-flopping" on many issues that he was so stern about during his race with Hillary Clinton. He said early on that he would bring the troops home from Iraq in 16 months. He was very firm on this issue. Now he is saying something totally different (of course he says he hasn't changed his stance). Now he is saying he will have to talk to our military leaders in Iraq and move the troops out in a way that best serves their safety. This makes sense but why didn't he think about this in the first place? Even I can answer that question. He didn't know any better. Obama is learning this thing on the fly. I'll give him this, he is a very smooth talker and almost talked his way out of the troop withdrawal flip-flop. Almost.
Do we actually want an inexperienced "learn as you go" President of the US?
Do we actually want an inexperienced "learn as you go" President of the US?
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Common Sense escapes from the US Government
Where did our government's common sense go? It escaped and I can't find it but in a few places.
Last week President Bush requested that congress lift the ban on off shore drilling of oil on the outer continental shelf (which would double the current oil production of the US), recommended that we aggressively research drilling for the oil shale deposits in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming (which experts say holds deposits larger than Saudi Arabia has!!), and drill in ANWR. Why didn't he do this 6 months ago? Wouldn't that have made sense? I voted for Bush and still like him as President. However, I believe Washington common sense (or lack of) has rubbed off on him.
Just one example of lack of common sense: In response to Bush's request, a democratic Florida Congresswoman said she was totally against it because Florida's main source of income is tourism and drilling off the coast would be a threat to the pristine Florida beaches. First of all, there are many oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana and during hurricane Katrina there were no incidents of oil spills. Secondly, If we don't do something to decrease our dependence on foreign oil and the price of gas continues to increase, no one will be driving or flying to Florida because they will not be able to afford it. Makes sense to me but apparently not to a politician. Especially a democratic politician.
It seems the Supreme Court has lost their common sense also. They ruled that the death penalty for the brutal crime of child rape is "unconstitutional". This is terrible. Do these people even have a brain? Do they have children or grandchildren? Regardless of what they say or rule, although I am a Christian man from a Christian family, do something like this to my child and you will invoke the death penalty on yourself.
This Supreme Court lack of common sense brought my attention to Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana and prospective Republican VP candidate. Gov. Jindal outwardly opposed the Supreme Court ruling (click on his name for his words). He also said on Fox News that if the Court ruled against the death penalty in child rape and other cases such as these, they should consider chemical or physical castration as an alternative. When he said this the Fox News reporter said, "don't you think this statement will hurt you politically because some people will look on you as being a radical or extremist?". Jindal told the reporter, "I don't care how it effects me politically, it is the right thing to do". You go Bobby! I'm going to do some more research on Gov. Jindal, but for now I believe he is my favorite along with Huckabee as a McCain running mate. The US government needs to find it's common sense again.
Last week President Bush requested that congress lift the ban on off shore drilling of oil on the outer continental shelf (which would double the current oil production of the US), recommended that we aggressively research drilling for the oil shale deposits in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming (which experts say holds deposits larger than Saudi Arabia has!!), and drill in ANWR. Why didn't he do this 6 months ago? Wouldn't that have made sense? I voted for Bush and still like him as President. However, I believe Washington common sense (or lack of) has rubbed off on him.
Just one example of lack of common sense: In response to Bush's request, a democratic Florida Congresswoman said she was totally against it because Florida's main source of income is tourism and drilling off the coast would be a threat to the pristine Florida beaches. First of all, there are many oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana and during hurricane Katrina there were no incidents of oil spills. Secondly, If we don't do something to decrease our dependence on foreign oil and the price of gas continues to increase, no one will be driving or flying to Florida because they will not be able to afford it. Makes sense to me but apparently not to a politician. Especially a democratic politician.
It seems the Supreme Court has lost their common sense also. They ruled that the death penalty for the brutal crime of child rape is "unconstitutional". This is terrible. Do these people even have a brain? Do they have children or grandchildren? Regardless of what they say or rule, although I am a Christian man from a Christian family, do something like this to my child and you will invoke the death penalty on yourself.
This Supreme Court lack of common sense brought my attention to Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana and prospective Republican VP candidate. Gov. Jindal outwardly opposed the Supreme Court ruling (click on his name for his words). He also said on Fox News that if the Court ruled against the death penalty in child rape and other cases such as these, they should consider chemical or physical castration as an alternative. When he said this the Fox News reporter said, "don't you think this statement will hurt you politically because some people will look on you as being a radical or extremist?". Jindal told the reporter, "I don't care how it effects me politically, it is the right thing to do". You go Bobby! I'm going to do some more research on Gov. Jindal, but for now I believe he is my favorite along with Huckabee as a McCain running mate. The US government needs to find it's common sense again.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Dad
Father's Day is tomorrow and even though my dad isn't computer literate and will probably never see this, I am going to write about him anyway.
Dad was born in Ellijay, GA (in the N. GA mountains) back in the "moonshine" days. His mother was a God-fearing, praying woman, who is responsible for all of her kids (and probably grand kids) coming to the knowledge of Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. My dad's father was a moonshiner and stayed in prison most of his life. I've heard stories good and bad about my grandfather. The good was that he was a giving man and would see men walking on the side of the road, down on their luck, and let them stay in his house until they got their feet on the ground.
My grandmother passed away due to cancer when my dad was 12. He was raised by one of his older sisters.
A few of things my dad taught me by example or by discipline:
1. He taught me to work. When I was 13 dad came in from work and told me he had me a job. It wasn't "I got you a job if you want it", it was "I got you a job". The job was delivering newspapers. I would deliver them after school Monday-Friday and at 4am on Sunday morning. Accept for the money that I made, I can remember thinking of this as some kind of torture. Today I look at it as one of the best things my dad could have done for me. Even though I don't have any formal education except for High School, I have had a job ever since that paper route. That was 30 years ago.
2. He taught me to go to church and had us there every time the door was opened. Your personal relationship with Jesus Christ should be the first priority in your life. One time when I got old enough to think that it was my decision where to go to church or not I decided I wasn't going and told my mother this when she came to wake me up on Sunday morning. She told my dad, he came to my room and told me I didn't have to go but I would need to pack my clothes because whoever lived in his house was going to church. Needless to say, I went to church.
3. He prayed for me and still does. He doesn't tell me he prays for me. I know because I feel those prayers.
I wish all dads could be like mine and I hope I can be half the man he is.
To all those fathers out there, Happy Father's Day!
Dad was born in Ellijay, GA (in the N. GA mountains) back in the "moonshine" days. His mother was a God-fearing, praying woman, who is responsible for all of her kids (and probably grand kids) coming to the knowledge of Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. My dad's father was a moonshiner and stayed in prison most of his life. I've heard stories good and bad about my grandfather. The good was that he was a giving man and would see men walking on the side of the road, down on their luck, and let them stay in his house until they got their feet on the ground.
My grandmother passed away due to cancer when my dad was 12. He was raised by one of his older sisters.
A few of things my dad taught me by example or by discipline:
1. He taught me to work. When I was 13 dad came in from work and told me he had me a job. It wasn't "I got you a job if you want it", it was "I got you a job". The job was delivering newspapers. I would deliver them after school Monday-Friday and at 4am on Sunday morning. Accept for the money that I made, I can remember thinking of this as some kind of torture. Today I look at it as one of the best things my dad could have done for me. Even though I don't have any formal education except for High School, I have had a job ever since that paper route. That was 30 years ago.
2. He taught me to go to church and had us there every time the door was opened. Your personal relationship with Jesus Christ should be the first priority in your life. One time when I got old enough to think that it was my decision where to go to church or not I decided I wasn't going and told my mother this when she came to wake me up on Sunday morning. She told my dad, he came to my room and told me I didn't have to go but I would need to pack my clothes because whoever lived in his house was going to church. Needless to say, I went to church.
3. He prayed for me and still does. He doesn't tell me he prays for me. I know because I feel those prayers.
I wish all dads could be like mine and I hope I can be half the man he is.
To all those fathers out there, Happy Father's Day!
Friday, June 13, 2008
Glenn Beck for President
Glenn Beck, if you haven’t heard of him, has a show on headline news. Glenn is a “cut to the chase” kind of guy. You should check out his show on CNN Headline News at 7pm or 9pm EST (I believe it also airs throughout the night). Glenn is probably hated by our politicians because he shows how stupid and without common sense most of them are. I’ve written before about drilling for oil here in the US where there are actually two schools of thought. One being the “Boone Pickens” interview Glenn did a month or so ago. Boone says the only thing left for Americans is to aggressively develop alternative fuels because peak oil production topped out in 2006 and it is now on a downward spiral. Since then there have been other experts who say the US has enough oil in Alaska and offshore to last us 125 to 150 years without any reliance on foreign oil. Regardless of who is correct, is it going to hurt us to drill in the areas around the US to find out? A Democratic subcommittee voted yesterday to basically kill drilling for oil off shore on the outer continental shelf. According to a government report from 1998 there are 78 billion barrels of recoverable oil there. 78 billion barrels would last the US 34 years with no reliance on foreign oil. Get it? We wouldn’t have to buy oil from people who want to kill us. This is not including inland places such as ANWR and the recent finds in the Dakotas where there is even more recoverable oil. Sure, this is not a permanent fix, but it would release us from dependence on foreign oil and allow us to aggressively research and put into use alternative fuels. Oh, and by the way, President Clinton received this report in 1998 about the time he had his mind on Monica. He started it then (not drilling for oil in and around the US) and Democrats are continuing it today. Their reason for not drilling off shore; there could be more chances for oil spills into the ocean. That doesn’t even make sense. I’m just a dumb ole southern boy and I can see where an oil tanker coming from the Persian Gulf (half way around the world) has more chances of colliding with something than it would if it were only traveling 500-1000 miles.
If you’re a reader of this blog you know that I am a no nonsense guy. When I see something stupid happening I want to do something about it.
I found a place where we can do a little something about it. It is a site developed by Newt Gingrich (why isn’t Newt running for president?) called American Solutions. You can go there and sign the Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less petition. There are already more than 700,000 people who have signed it. Just think if we get 1 million + to sign the petition Congress has to pay attention.
Wonder what our presidential candidates are saying about gas prices?
Obama yesterday said the price of gasoline isn't the problem. $4 a gallon for gasoline isn't the problem. The high price of oil is not the problem. The problem is it's just risen too quickly. Huh!? Does he even have a clue? And to think people are actually going to vote for him!
McCain (I hope he changes his mind) is for cap and trade, which basically penalizes oil companies for making too much money. They don’t penalize Microsoft for making too much money, why should they penalize oil companies.
I could write all day about this, but for now I’m just going to give Glenn Beck my vote. Wait just a minute. I can’t because he isn’t one of our politicians. He makes too much sense. God Bless the USA!
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