Would It Truly Be Noble to Just Say No?

Well I read with much delight Eugene Robinson's article in a recent Washington Post offering. Who exactly pays this man's salary?

In his column He asks for ... somebody to explain this to me. What this is, is the issue of Barack Obama receiving an award. He was irritated that a few persons of character would denounce Obama for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. He acts rather jocose when he states that the award may be the world's most prestigious award. Now I wish I had a bird in a cage because his article would surely be adorning its bottom level, with the bird having literally free run of the entire area as it saw fit.

Prestigious you say Eugene? Let's look at this award that according to Robinson is the cat's meow around worldly circles. In 2007, Al Gore received a portion of the award for among other things his orchestrating of an economic upturn for many. Those that have profited handsomely for the on-going perpetrating of the global warming hoax think he was a good choice. The misguided Hollywood elite (the bastions of immorality) that gave Gore an award for his Inconvenient Truth (aka The Inconvenient Lie) were just giddy and elated at his winning the PRESTIGIOUS Nobel Peace Prize. Recently a court has brought the curtain down on Gore's ever-increasing waistline by indicating that his movie had NINE fatal flaws, aka mistruths, aka LIES,

Another great selection in recent times was in 2001, when Kofi Annan (aka let's see how much money I can get for my brother and my family Annan) received it. The awards committee alleged that he received it for his work for a better organized and more peaceful world. Really! Well let's look at the facts. During his tenure at the helm of the impotent United Nations he refused to meaningfully confront mass genocide in Sudan, Rwanda, and Bosnia. He got down on all fours while allowing the departed, hanged Saddamn Hussein regime to run amok. Global terrorism picked up during his tenure of world peacekeeping. In the Congo (a neighbor of his beloved homeland Ghana) he was the captain of the ship that allowed (by inaction) U.N personnel certain human rights violations against the poor and down trodden refugees. The coup de gras was his leadership or lack thereof in dealing with the scandal that emanated from the food for oil program. Annan's feathers weren't the least bit ruffled by the multi-million dollar scandal when his organization was presented a scathing briefing by Charles Duelfer (the weapons of mass destruction inspector). Duelfer who wrote that Annan's handpicked appointee Benji Saavan, who oversaw the oil for food program allegedly received a payment voucher from Saddam Hussein himself, to the tune of 13 million (with an M) barrels of oil. Hmmm! How many Hummers does Saavan own? That's a ubiquitous amount of oil. I'd say someone has a lot of SPLAINING TO DO LUCY!

In 1994, Yasser " keep the little boys away from him" Arafat received 1/3 of the Nobel Peace Prize. I love that don't you... the prestigious award is oftentimes cut into threes or halves. This man was at the bottom of an on-going terrorist operation while at the helm of the PLO.

Let's see if these Scandinavians can get the courage to consider Kim Jong il a 1/3 portion of the PRESTIGIOUS award in the future. But let's not forget the rather disheveled Iranian Akmadenijan, he is someone who would add prestige to this worldwide award.

Now we have Barack Hussein Obama... Robinson quipped that conservatives hate America. Really? I think Eugene fell off his hobby horse again. Robinson, conservatives hate socialism. They hate Communists. They hate people who are dressed in sheep's clothing but are actually evil destructive forces that want to weaken our great country.

Now Eugene it is preposterous that an award would be given to someone who has as his resume a speech given in West Berlin (that was broadcast to the world). Sorry Eugene, it is a travesty, it is a farce. Obama even uttered that he didn't deserve it!!! You're on the Titanic Robinson listening to the band.

Further, in Robinson's column he writes that even if Obama ended all hunger in the world that his critics would accuse him of promoting obesity. He further writes that if Obama solved global warming that his detractors would claim it was getting chilly. Well Robinson, it really is getting chillier than it is getting warmer. Since 1992 as a matter of fact. But I've never wanted to confuse you with the facts.

Robinson's rather rude observation that the Taliban and Republican leaders are joined in some nexus regarding this award going to Obama is quite absurd. The slogan " I'm With The Taliban Against America" is somehow been juxtapositioned as meaningful dialogue? Republicans above all else would like to see the Taliban blown back into the 3rd century.

Once more I fear that Robinson needs to extract his head from the kitty litter sandbox. He is rather engaged in Obama's new leadership and direction, even opining that his policy will more likely succeed in a multipolar world (whatever the hell that means). Multipolar? Hmm. Are the polar bears really becoming extinct? Well they're numbers are increasing Mr. Gore! So are the caribou in Alaska!

Ok, let's get to the crux here. Robinson alleges (rather foolishly) that the award is nothing more than an acknowledgement of what Obama has been saying and doing thus far. But Eugene, nominations for this PRESTIGIOUS AWARD ended in the first days of February. To date, Obama has nothing to show for his barnstorming globe-trotting tour, that had at its cornerstone
the continued criticism of the greatest nation on the planet Earth.

Obama, according to Robinson has taken on the rescue of the U.S. financial system and the long-term restructuring of the economy. Really! Is this relevant to world peace? Wasn't this done after the close of nominations to the elite Nobel Peace Prize committee? Would you say that going from approximately a 545 billion dollar embarrassment to well over a 2 trillion dollar indiscretion meets the standard of rescuing the economy? Would you say Mr. Robinson that 10% unemployment rates generally do not forebode well for a government that is short of revenue? Trying to gag 83% of Americans that want to keep their existing health care as it is with minor adjustments would send the deficit to well over 3 trillion dollars. I write this in deference to your claim Mr. President that not one dime of increase will transpire. Rescuing our economy indeed Mr. President. Indeed Mr. Robinson. (Say is Mrs. Robinson still seeing that young man Dustin Hoffman)? Where's Joe Dimmagio when we need him, for after all a nation is turning it's lonely eyes to you for help!

Where's that bird cage and canary when I need it? Speaking of canaries... I think we Americans are sometimes looked upon by our misguided spendthrift Congress as frail little birds lowered in the bowels of the mine shaft.

In his campaign (which has never ended) Obama wants to be remembered as a transformational president. Well Mr. President, I can respectfully point out that you are well on your way to achieving bliss. After all your socialistic programs have started to unfold. Many of your appointments have proven to be incompetent tax-dodging cheats, Communistic loving ideologues, blithering babbling idiots, corrupt America hating left-wing lapdogs, and a general overall theme of being NON-TRANSPARENT.

The American public is onto your healing process Mr. President. YOUR change is not what we want.

Now is it a nobler act to say thanks, but no thanks?

Oh How The Weak Have Fallen

My old buddy Eugene Robinson is like a dog without a bark. Eugene's drivel is once again embarrassing himself and the Washington Post. According to Robinson .... President Barack Obama is the one who must make the decision on how to proceed with the war in Afghanistan, not the generals. He further states that the generals should shut up and salute, and that's after he writes that he has enormous respect for the general's patriotism and service. He gives them the same respect that Senator "I worked hard for my position" Boxer gave to the general at a Senate hearing a few month ago.

General Stanley McChrystal the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan (according to Robinson) is entitled to his opinion about the best way to proceed going forward. According to Eugene, McChrystal (whose reputation and job is on the line, as are the precious human beings known as our military men and woman, to be as successful a commander as he can be) should be making his push for more troops to Obama candidly, in private.

Well Robinson... that's exactly what McChrystal did in August of this year. Now moving forward to September, nothing had been done. Obama's lack of leadership continues to surface as he barnstorms around the world criticizing out country, and not making the decisions that presidents are paid to do. Obama muttered those famous words to make himself appear to be tough when he was running for president to-wit: Afghanistan was a war of necessity. I agree Mr. President.

Ok, hello Barack! The call at 3 in the morning has come, why aren't you answering it?

Robinson continues to natter that what needs to be achieved in Afghanistan is a political question, and that we don't pay generals to do politics. He says "that's the job of the president and the Congress..." Ok Barack, and the Congress do you think the Taliban is going to wait for the big decision to be made by a man who in his entire life hasn't run a lemonade stand on the corner? And anyone who thinks politics can be separated from the military in a situation SUCH as this, is as naive as our impervious leader is on world affairs. Really though, what can we expect from someone who thinks there are 57 states in our USA?

Now finally, Robinson points out that it would be dereliction of duty for the president not to consider alternatives to the issue of sending more troops to the theatre known as Afghanistan. Hmmm!

Now Robinson shows his overall ignorance of the history lesson in Afghanistan vis-a-vis that the Russians placed huge numbers of troops into the area and got a failed result for dominance. That part of his idea is factual since they never defeated the locals, but exacted a pound of flesh that ruined the next generation of potentially able bodied men. Please explain to Eugene that we are not there in Afghanistan for dominance.

To compare 1980's warfare with modern day technologies is foolhardiness. Someone explain it to Robinson at the next latte guzzling. Calculating and calibrating the proper U.S.military presence is a high-stakes exercise Robinson.... one best performed by the professionals in the uniforms that bear the little stars on their shoulders, and not a community organizer, who is all too busy and preoccupied listening to the Chicago seven calling the shots from a scurrilous playbook.

Eugene, isn't it refreshing when a reporter asks a professional soldier a question with regards to the allocation of troops and gets an honest answer, one that comes quickly without pause, or a dozen UMMS followed by a carefully measured answer ala Barack Hussein Obama?

If privacy is what you want Robinson for the tet-a-tet between the allied commander and the president... I can live with it. Unfortunately, that's exactly what went down, but far be it for me to confuse you with the facts. What McChrystal didn't know then (August 2009) was that he was dealing with a greenhorn, one that couldn't make a decision if his life depended on it. Too bad the lives of our precious troops are the ones that are laying down their lives.

Bark on Robinson!

Minnesota

You've got to love this state nestled in the northern netherland. Have they gone stark raving mad?

First, the city of Brooklyn Park (population 56,000) elected Jesse Ventura (born James George Janos) as it's City Council's mayor-at-large for a one year term.

Second, some political operative thought at first that it would be a good joke to get Jesse (who has an ego the size of my back porch) to buy into the idea of a run for the governor's office. Well history will reflect that the proud, hard-working citizens of the land of ten thousand lakes elected a larger than life buffoon named Jesse Ventura to be their chief executive.

For those Americans that may live in San Francisco, he was a former seal in our armed forces, but was mainly renowned for being a professional "rastler". He frequently paraded around in cute little boas, and basically acted like a fool. The crowd hated him. They knew this character as Jesse "The Body" Ventura.

Third, the good but seemingly myopic people of the great state of Minnesota recently threw out the incumbent Senator Norm Coleman (who did his duty in serving the hard-working people with honor and dedication between the years of 2003-2009.)

Fourth, the very astute and far-sighted people of the great state of Minnesota recently were dishonored when the high court thought that everything in the senatorial election was above board and that there was no reason for keeping Al Franken out of the senate. This courageous ruling was despite wide spread election shenanigans that would make O'Leary's cow in Chicago blush. The skullduggery included but was certainly not limited to finding and then counting ballots that had been placed in someone's automobile trunk for several days).

Al recently quipped ... that his actions will speak louder than his words. Well those people who have followed Franken's laughable career are ready to see his action, or inaction. Al Franken is without a single peer in the annals of senatoral history. He is the real deal; he is the full package; he is the full Monty. He is without a doubt the full and complete horse's buttocks.

The visionary people of the great state of Minnesota will now get what they so richly deserve.
We can all bless the silent majority (within the borders of Minnesota) who chose to stay home rather than exercise their right to vote. I'm quite certain that their food doesn't taste as good as it once did.

My final observation which may shed some light on this issue of voting for persons that are not qualified for historically honorable positions is this: maybe the people of Minnesota have decided that the exhalted position of Senator IS NO LONGER a position of honor! Ergo, then why not elect the tail end of a horse, or jackass to go to the senate and rub elbows with the likes of Teddy (drive your Chevy off a bridge in Chappaquiddick, and then go climb into a friend's parked car to sleep it off) Kennedy, Senator (please don't call me maam, I've worked hard to get where I am) Boxer, Dianne (as the head of the military appropriations/spending committee, lets funnel some contracts to my husband's firm) Feinstein; or Arlen ( oh yes a magical bullet could have done what we say it could, and Kennedy was assassinated by a lone gunman) Spector, or affectionately called Arlen Spectacle or Arlen Turncoat.

Maybe I see their point. If they truly believe that the Senate is a dishonorable place then why not Franken? Franken is going to show the country what many of us already know. However, the country and of course the people from the great state of Minnesota oftentimes need to have their nose rubbed in dog shit to know that it is dog shit.

Dunes and Tremors

Thought you heard it all? Stand by!

In a peaceful, alleged water-starved area in our beautiful country lies the Palouse. Idaho and Washington State share this rich farm land with a mythical creature that has been spotted less frequently than Bigfoot.

However, there is a move underfoot by our conservationist corp to make the giant Palouse earthworm an endangered species. The Obama administration is being lobbied to make it so.

Jodi Maynard a professor at one of America's think tanks (University of Idaho) has no doubt of its existence. I opine that if she had to bankroll the effort to locate and then subsequently capture one of these critters that ... there would be no search. However, never fear the U.S. Government comes riding in to the rescue.

Maynard proudly produces a vial that encases a partial remnant of the legendary giant worm that wowed movie fans in Dune and the television hit (lol) Tremors. Except this prodigious worm isn't 25 foot long, or even 6 foot long. In fact it may very well be only 6 inches long.

So much for the "giant" moniker. In fact to date there have been only four sightings. But despite this reality government funds (aka tax dollars) are being used to fund this nonsense. Maynard and her researchers are going to use what they consider a "NEW METHOD." One of their crude methods at locating the wily worm is to stick an electrical pole into the ground, then shock the little ferocious beasts out of their comfortable abodes, and get them to come out into the daylight. That's funny, as a nine year old lad I fondly remember my brother and I catching night crawlers in my grandpa's back yard using the same methodology. That was in 1961.

"New," I'd say this whole mess is hardly a genesis of originality. To me, in these times of recessionary life in America this is quite old. Another pork program that goes forward with research, when good hard-working Americans are being laid off their jobs at the University of Idaho et. al.

When will our tax dollars be spent appropriately? Scientist Karl Umiker is on the scene and has stated "I'm kind of bummed we haven't seen anything yet." Well Karl the American public is bummed that Congress keeps spending money, and we haven't seen any results from the massive bailout either.

Imagine that everyone is bummed. Now where is that Sasquatch, perhaps we could put another grant together to go find him. While you're at it Congress, why not search for the unicorn?

Who is Guarding the Chicken Coop

There are now trillions of dollars that are being spent to ostensibly correct an out-of-control problem in our country. The money comes from my metaphorical chicken coop.

Who is watching the coop to ensure that our tax dollars are being spent wisely? The answer is a large group of U.S citizens called Americans.

Now within this large mass of people the group that actually spends our tax money is Congress. Not the President, not the Vice-President but Congress.

It has oftentimes amused me, then later bemused me that our alleged representatives in the Senate and House of Representatives are frequently heard and seen (on the airwaves, press conferences, television programs etc etc.) pointing their soiled fingers at the President for overspending.

Let's not delude ourselves! Let's not allow these men and woman in Congress to continually point accusatory fingers at the President for ear marking pork projects. The money for these porky projects go back to the communities of our great nation. They don't go up to the white house for the president's personal gain.

The monies go back to build bridges so that alligators and turtles can cross underneath the highway(millions of dollars mind you); or to states to build skateboard parks; or millions to protect the salt marsh mouse down California way or for ????/

Now about that recession and the emergency that needed to be addressed? Billions of dollars... none of which was to be for earmarks! Please! Stop! I can't continue to laugh this much.

When Will the Silent Majority Awake

This question has been one that I pass through my mind every day of my life.

When comfort and individual freedoms supersede our worry about the country around us the result is oftentimes apathy and a passion to remain anonymous, and silent.

This allows the likes of Jesse " The Body" Ventura to be elected governor of Minnesota, not to mention that poor excuse for a human being the foul-mouth vitriolic Al Franken to be elected as Senator from the same state.

Please wake-up America while there's still a place we can proudly call home!