I know you want to join the Mile-High club and all…

But:

Seriously…Dude. Yer doing it wrong.

“We don’t have a trillion dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion dollar debt because we spend too much.

Ronald Reagan, March, 1982

I’d move to Iceland.

That the ONE said that we citizens should just shut up and “let the professional politicians handle this” budget crisis.

Actually, I can believe that he said it, I am just surprised that he would let his elitist feelings show in a press conference….

Look, you arrogant bastard: We mere citizens can figure the ins and outs of the budget issues as well as you. We see how well your policies have worked, we see the effect that the deficit is having on our dollar. We understand what the issues are. We see the effects every time we fill up our cars with fuel or go to the grocery store. You are insulated from that. You’ve never worked a day in your life for your own money, and you’ve apparently never had to worry about making a mortgage or car payment, or how you are gonna make the choice between food for your family and paying rent. You’ve never seen the buying power of your hard work evaporate daily.

Shut the fuck up and deal with the issues. It isn’t a revenue issue, but rather a spending issue. You’d like “more programs”. You’d like to target some portions of the citizenry for special treatment. You’d like to have everyone pay their “fair share” (whatever that really means). First stop spending to much.

And yes, I understand that you think that I am stupid, me and my fellow citizens…the great unwashed. Those of us in flyover country who cling bitterly to our guns and religion. But we aren’t as uninformed as you give us credit for. If you can only get 24% of the people to poll in favor of your policies, then it ISN’T a communication issue. We understand what you wish to do. And we reject it.

While I understand that you think that a majority of the taxpayers and voters (not always the same group, but with a lot of overlap) have intelligence and judgement issues  (You fooled enough with your “Hope and Change” bullshit after all) to have voted you into office, but really, we aren’t all entirely stupid, and we can(and have) balanced a budget enough to get by in our own lives…..And we can understand the bigger picture enough to know that you are, quite honestly, full of shit in your plan to somehow fix the issues with our economy. And we repudiate you 65-24%.

Update:
Althouse has the text that I couldn’t find earlier…

And for that, I apologize. But internet rumor has it that the ORIGINAL typewritten birth certificate  for the ONE has been subpoenaed…by the US District Court in Honolulu….

Interesting, to say the least….

We shall see.

And thereby adds to the problem for the next generation. 

Guess that this post makes me a racist…

“Well Doctor, what do we have, a republic or a monarchy?” asked Mrs. Powell of Benjamin Franklin.  “A Republic,” replied Doctor Franklin, “if you can keep it.”.


I think we have failed to keep it. 


If you don’t know where the quote is from, then I feel sorry for you. If you don’t, then you are a part of the problem. 


Google it to find the whole story. Or not. Up to you. 

Something to think about.

Worth the (short) read.

I apparently have overdosed on Fucktiall and I got nothing to say about anything…..

Hope you have a good Fourth weekend……But please, remember the reason for the celebration.

It ain’t all about burgers and beer, and pretty lights on the sky after dusk accompanied by loud booms. It’s not about a three day weekend….

It’s about Freedom…and that which makes this country great…A statement on parchment and sent to the king of England…. that began the greatest nation on earth:



“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
If you haven’t, (or haven’t recently) then I urge you…Read the whole thing.

Now think what those 56 men risked when they affixed their signatures to that letter to the King.

And think about what they would do were they here today. What would they think of us, sitting passively and letting that great future slip away?

Now you can go enjoy your burgers and beer and such.

’cause I’d like to call the SOB and give him a piece of my mind.  In fact, I’d like to interrupt his peaceful enjoyment of life on a Saturday…Actually, I’d like to punch him in the nose.

I already am a member (have to be because It Is Required for membership in my local range)….I already donate (for me) significant money to the PAC part of the NRA.

But these stupid fuckers are calling me at home wanting more money. They had my telephone number and my name…. Being a member, they had all the information to give to someone who called me. On a Saturday.

Thereby damaging my serenity and my peaceful enjoyment of life…. I don’t EVER donate money to people who call me on weekends. Ever. I will continue to be a member because I have to…..But the NRA will never see another dime beyond my membership fee. Not one single thin devalued by Obama dime.

Jesus H. Gunwalking Christ….at what point don’t they think that we have donated enough? They are like liberals. Always with their hand out. Always wanting Someone Else’s money….If they need money that badly then they can forgo their nearly daily mailings to my address. That should save about $100 per year in postage and paper….But it’ll make it harder to keep the woodstove lit….