Seems Logical
What Really Matters
Story behind this? Her dad was leaving on a 2 year deployment.
She was crying and wouldn’t let go of her dad’s hand, even when he stood in line saluting.
No one had the heart to break them apart.
Enjoy
Wonderful description of the current practice of the State of the Union Address and history of how it all changed…for the worse.
A Nod to Ace over at Ace of Spades HQ for the heads up.
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The annual State of the Union pageant is a hideous, dispiriting, ugly, monotonous, un-American, un-republican, anti-democratic, dreary, backward, monarchical, retch-inducing, depressing, shameful, crypto-imperial display of official self-aggrandizement and piteous toadying, a black Mass during which every unholy order of teacup totalitarian and cringing courtier gathers under the towering dome of a faux-Roman temple to listen to a speech with no content given by a man with no content, to rise and to be seated as is called for by the order of worship — it is a wonder they have not started genuflecting — with one wretched representative of their number squirreled away in some well-upholstered Washington hidey-hole in order to preserve the illusion that those gathered constitute a special class of humanity without whom we could not live.
It’s the most nauseating display in American public life — and I write that as someone who has just returned from a pornographers’ convention.
It’s worse than the Oscars.
When the moment comes and the sergeant-at-arms utters the sacred words — “Mr. Speaker! The president of the United States!” — the chamber will erupt, as though the assembled have entirely forgotten that the mysterious entity that is the object of this curious act of national worship only a decade ago was an obscure legislator in a destitute and corrupt state, a man whose most prominent legislative accomplishment was the passage of a bill requiring police to videotape confessions in potential capital cases — in a state in which there were as a practical matter no potential capital cases. (Illinois had not carried out an execution during the century in which the law was passed and was on its way toward abolishing capital punishment categorically.)
Wrong Man Doing The State Of The Union Address
LEST WE FORGET
* In 59 voting districts in the Philadelphia region, Obama received 100% of the votes with not even a single vote recorded for Romney.
(A mathematical and statistical impossibility).
* In 21 districts in Wood County Ohio, Obama received 100% of the votes where GOP inspectors were illegally removed from their
polling locations – and not one single vote was recorded for Romney.
(Another statistical impossibility).
* In Wood County Ohio, 106,258 voted in a county with only 98,213 eligible voters.
* In St. Lucie County, FL, there were 175,574 registered eligible voters but 247,713 votes were cast.
* The National SEAL Museum, a polling location in St. Lucie County, FL had a 158% voter turnout.
* Palm Beach County, FL had a 141% voter turnout.
* In Ohio County, Obama won by 108% of the total number of eligible voters.
NOTE: Obama won in every state that did not require a Photo ID and lost in every state that
did require a Photo ID in order to vote. Imagine that!
ARE WE THE DUMBEST NATION ON THE PLANET OR WHAT??
Sage Advice
Lessons from the past seem doomed to stay there, this little nugget was penned in 1916. With the SOTU coming up tonight, it reminds me of how far our politicians have lost their way.
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* You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
* You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
* You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
* You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
* You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
* You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
* You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
* You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
* You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.
* You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
– The Rev. William John Henry Boetcker
* You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
* You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
* You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
* You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
* You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
* You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
* You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
* You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.
* You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
– The Rev. William John Henry Boetcker
What I Want To Hear Tonight From Obama
So embarrassed I spelled “hear” as “here”. My apologies and thanks to my wife.
Then announce his resignation and quietly walk away.
Warning
Drink Responsibly
Smoke & Mirrors
Bloomberg is calling for immigration reform and he is doing it at the mayors US Chamber of Commerce event. The same Chamber of Commerce that is throwing campaign money at GOP establishment politicians to battle Tea Party candidates…go figure. That fact alone shows you what agenda these guys are pursuing. Don’t fall for the lies, this is all smoke and mirrors to keep the flow of cash running smoothly into Washington and eventually into their own pockets.
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The following are Mike Bloomberg’s remarks as prepared for delivery at the Immigration Reform: Outlook 2014 event at the National Press Club.
The one thing, all kidding aside, that hasn’t changed and won’t: I’m going to keep pressing Washington to act on the issues that matter most when it comes to keeping America competitive, and America safe, and America strong, and few things matter as much as immigration. (Wrong dipshit, jobs and a thriving economy is what is important, immigration reform pales in comparison.)
I have said repeatedly, our current immigration laws are “national suicide” (Really? And how exactly is putting 12 million new people on the books good for us?)
Because I see industry after industry, company after company, school after school improving overseas, and if we don’t do something, we’re going to find ourselves someday on the backside of the curve, and it’s very hard to play catch up in this world. (Bullshit, prove it. Which countries are you referring too?)
We all agree that we need stronger borders and better enforcement. (No shit Sherlock) But we also agree that turning away foreign-born innovators and entrepreneurs and the best and brightest immigrant students educated here – is about the worst economic policy anybody could possibly have. (So we have been turning away scientists and surgeons? Doubt it. The argument is over the immigrants that would land on our welfare system and in out prisons…not nuclear physicist you dumbass)
The good news is that at the state level people like Governor Snyder and our governor in New York understand that they have an obligation to do everything they can to urge Congress – because it is a federal law that needs to be passed (Really more federal law, they aren’t enforcing the immigration laws that we have in place now.)
It’s encouraging that Speaker Boehner and House Leadership will set up a set of principles for immigration reform that will be released soon. (Great, the GOP is getting on board, guess the Chamber of Commerce backing RINO’s removed whatever spines they had left.)
The principles they’ll lay out won’t satisfy everybody – as someone once said, Democracy is that we try to get to the middle and that everyone should walk away with something, and you never want to walk away with everything, because next time you won’t get anything. (Oh I see, give a little here, and get something in return, isn’t that what happened when Reagan negotiated amnesty? Washington promised future spending cuts after amnesty was passed, and remind me again what happened? Oh that’s right…NOTHING!)
Bloomberg is in bed with the GOP establishment and like minded Democrats because basically they have become one and the same. He is using his money to rattle sabers against Tea Party politicians and is looking for support from perceived GOP allies. Like I said kids….smoke and mirrors.
Government Is An Obstacle, Not A Solution
The proper way to let the economy function is to get government the hell out of the way. Friedman puts it more eloquently than I can but you get the point. Healthcare in this country would look vastly different if government regulations had not superseded competition years ago.
“I do not believe it’s proper to put the situation in the terms that it’s industrialists versus government. On the contrary, one of the reasons why I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over, and the two together form a coalition against the ordinary worker and the ordinary consumer. I think business is a wonderful institution, provided it has to face competition in the marketplace and can’t get away with something except by producing a better something at a lower cost, and that’s why I don’t want government to step in and help the business community.“— Milton Friedman
The Plan All Along
