Seems the FAA can’t keep track of375,000 airplanes. (or at least 1/3 of them).  Yet they spend more money each year. Seems that we should get about 1/3 of the cash they spend on tracking private aircraft back.

I can’t wait for Obamacare to show us how a government run bureaucracy can save money and be efficient.

Actually, this is a good idea, one that should have been implemented soon after 9/11. But, of course, its government….. So it requires that someone care enough to push it through the layers and layers of management to actually make it happen.

Still, it’s only once every 3 years.

Wonder who did this?

On taxation

You should read it.

Trust me.

People who abandon animals should be beaten.

People who abandon pets in a rural area in winter should be stripped naked and left in an area miles from anywhere in winter weather to fend for themselves with no supplies.Let us see how they like it.

It is a cruel thing to abandon a domesticated animal in the wild. Crueller yet to do so in winter.

Would that the punishment could fit the offense.

When you choose to take a pet you commit to taking care of it for its lifetime.

Or don’t bother.

Dream act.

Perhaps you should read this. Think about it.

I am already as prepped as I can be…Are you?

If (and it really is just an “IF”) the whole WiliLeaks kefluffle is of significant import to national security, and therefore is prosecutable for treasonous acts, are we going to go after the New York Times, the LA times, etc for the same deeds? They too have published classified information leaked by others, in violation of national security protocols.

Why is there no demand to punish the editors, owners, and board of those newspapers?

Not that I would object if they were stood up against a wall and shot for treason. 

Pearl Harbor Day:

Yeah, yeah….”A day which will live in infamy” and all that. Yer gonna hear that a lot today.

You are probably thinking…”who cares?”

I care. I care because that day (well before I was born) brought out the best in our culture (and, sadly, some of the worst). But that day, and the events which unfolded then, brought to the top the best of the American Spirit. People grew angry at the “sneak attack” and wanted to defend their country. Lines formed in the days afterwards at recruitment centers. young men sure….to be expected. Older men too though. 

In the days and months afterwards, people sacrificed to help the war effort. PEOPLE CARED.

And they cared for years.

Today, we have those who felt real patriotic, and cared after 9-11.

For about 6 months…..

if that.

Then they forgot.

Perhaps longer in the midwest, less in the east and left coast. But overall, many forgot.

Not so with the happenings on Dec 7th and the time afterward.

Would that we could muster the drive, determination, and anger that was generated then.

But we can’t.

And that is sad.

I will think about those people than, and then about our citizens today.

And I find us to be lacking.

What would those folks think about us today?

We can be proud of their actions now. Would they be proud of our citizens today?

Seems that the FBI had an informant in a mosque…….He was SO radical, and so “Jihad” oriented that the attendees of the mosque informed the FBI about him….The FBI informant (provocateur).

This is the way things should go. And I am glad to see it. More of this would be a Good Thing.

For too long, the Muslim community has been inclined to protect Muslims first, and worry about things like law and order second. Obviously (at least in this case) things have changed. If enough of this sort of thing happen often enough, the muslims will effectively weed out their bad members (and the FBI informants) and gain legitimacy in the eyes of non-muslim US citizens.

One would hope that this continues, FBI informant or not.

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