A little ‘humor’…

Posted on by March 6, 2013

Today, the ACLU announced that they are entering a law suit against God.  Teaming with Amnesty International, the ACLU charges that the creation of Hell, by God, is “cruel and unusual punishment.”  The reasoning, a spokesperson for the ACLU claims, in this western Christian culture, one goes to hell for defying God.  If one feels they are destined for hell, because of their actions and beliefs, then one is compensable, before death, the spokesperson points out.  An eternity of one’s soul burning in hell is not equitable, the ACLU argues, to one’s defiance and / or denial of God.

Since one cannot enjoy any monetary compensation after death, and while burning in hell, the ACLU claims that it becomes the inherent responsibility of the Federal Government to provide equitable monetary compensation while the hellbound beneficiary is still alive, on this mortal earth, and living in the USA.

In a proposed settlement agreement, the ACLU and Amnesty International have delineated a process whereas anyone believing that they are going to burn and / or rot in hell for an eternity will receive an advance check from a new bureau with the USGOV known as the Dept. of Eminent and Voluntary Loss of Soul, or DEVLS, for short.

Since God cannot be compelled to actually pay a check to each unrepentent sinner (aka:  “U.S.”) the aforementioned bureau will provide a check ($) to any and all proclaimed beneficiaries.  They only need to report to the new Sin Security (SS) office and line up for a check.  The program, like the check, will be named:   “HELLFARE.”


Um… Aren’t we already basically doing this???

h/t JP

I "think" they’re making a mistake…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Just heard a report that the Syrians tried again to shoot down a Turkish airplane, this time a search and rescue aircraft, searching for the F-4 that was shot down Friday…

What’s really sad is I had to get this from the UK, NOT from US media… (Article HERE)

Bülent Arınç, the deputy prime minister, said the second plane had been attacked as it flew above the Mediterranean searching for two pilots. The claim undermines Damascus’s insistence that mistaken identity caused the attack on the first jet.

Turkey has called a meeting of the National Atlantic Council, Nato’s political steering body made up of ambassadors from member states, under the article four of the North Atlantic treaty, which allows any member to consult its allies whenever it believes “the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened”.

Now THIS is where it gets interesting, since the US is a member of the NAC… One wonders how the administration is going to handle this hot potato…

Changes in the Pentagon…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
There has been a LOT of ‘change’ in the Pentagon but not much ‘hope’ under Obama…

From Fox, the following was written by JD Gordon.  The whole article is HERE

With the war over in Iraq and winding down in Afghanistan, some downsizing at the Pentagon was to be expected. But it’s much more than that. Take the half-a-trillion in programmed defense cuts over the next 10 years, combine this with another half-a-trillion from Obama’s deal with Congress, when the Supercommittee failed to reach agreement on our national debt, and you will see a hollowed out military like the one we saw during the 1970s.

Even Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, one of most influential Democrats in Washington over the past couple decades, described the Congressional sequestration cuts as, “a gun to their heads and to the heads of the country.” A total of 100,000 ground troops are being eliminated, ship and aircraft numbers are shrinking fast, and new weapons systems are being scrapped or delayed.

With America’s most sensitive secrets in cyber-warfare and counter-terrorism now routinely finding their way into breaking news alerts, even White House ally Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) called the leaks the “worst in a long time.”

From computer attacks on Iran’s nuclear program, to a foiled Al Qaeda plot to take down an airliner with a new and improved underwear bomb worn by a Saudi double agent, to painstaking details on the SEAL team raid that killed Usama Bin Laden, Team Obama has apparently sought to score political points at the expense of protecting the nation’s top covert operations.

3. The Pentagon is now detainee friendly

Though Obama couldn’t close Gitmo, the next best thing to that stated purposed was the decision to spend $750,000 in 2012 on a new soccer field for the detainees.

Meanwhile, within the president’s first 48 hours in office, he chose to ban all coercive interrogations – thereby depriving the military and intelligence community of an important tool in preventing potential mass-casualty terrorist attacks.

Never mind the fact that just a handful of the most dangerous detainees ever underwent any sort of harsh techniques out of the tens of thousands of enemy combatants captured in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe — why let reality get in the way of a good political talking point?

And what is the president’s creative solution to avoid the prospect of coercive interrogations for terror suspects still on the loose? Simple, just kill them all via a drone strike. We’ve recently learned that even US citizens overseas have been fair game for the “secret kill list.”

As of early June, there were 154 suicides in the military this year – an astonishing rate of roughly one per day. This staggering figure is on par with the number killed in combat in Afghanistan over the same period. Though some blame multiple deployments, the Pentagon dismisses that idea, noting that almost half of the victims had never been deployed to a combat zone. One message the Pentagon does emphasize is that getting help is a sign of strength, not weakness – while promoting a suicide prevention crisis line of 1-800-273-8255.

In an amazing first, Obama’s Defense Department will conduct a LGBT Pride Month event on Tuesday, June 26 at the Pentagon Auditorium, with a speech from DoD’s top lawyer Jeh Johnson and a panel discussion entitled, “The Value of Open Service and Diversity.”

With last year’s repeal of the Clinton-era “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” policy gays can now serve openly in the military. That’s a major change at the Pentagon and in our military.
Amid all these ‘changes’, there has been NO reduction in the base operational requirements on the services, equipment is in bad shape/failing after 10 years of war, people in combat are now ‘afraid’ to shoot the bad guys, because some lawyer might come back later and charge them with murder, and the military has been forced into socially correct alignments that negatively impact not only unit moral but unit capabilities…
Having served when we were under Carter and remembering what we went through then; I can only say I TRULY appreciate those who continue to volunteer to serve today…   

NOW it’s going to get interesting…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Mohammed Morsi was declared Egypt’s first Islamist president on Sunday, however…

He’s the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928 as a Fascist Islamic political party. The are avowed goal is to instill the Qur’an and Sunnah as the “sole reference point for ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community and state”.

They are fundamentalist to put it mildly (and small by comparison), and it will be interesting to see if they can actually get support from the myriad of parties and liberals, moderates and other factions in Egypt.

In the mean time, this could be a significant problem for the US, especially with respect to the Suez Canal, and free movement of our military and contract ships through the canal…

I don’t think this one is over by a long shot, and I’m still waiting for the military to decide where they are going to come down on this, and whether or not they will ‘reassume’ control of Egypt.

In the mean time, security for the whole region is up in the air… I’d be keeping an eye on this one, because if this breaks truly bad, the Israelis may have yet another war on their hands (again) much closer than Iran…

An interesting approach…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns…

This is an interesting approach to the parties, and I’d never thought of it in this way, but it DOES make sense!!!



The Lawyers’ Party,             
By Bruce Walker


The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers Party.


Barack Obama is a lawyer. Michelle Obama is a lawyer.
Hillary Clinton is a lawyer. Bill Clinton is a lawyer.
John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer.
Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).
Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.
Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:
Harry Reid is a lawyer. Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.


The Republican Party is different.


President Bush is a businessman.
Vice President Cheney is a businessman.
The leaders of the Republican Revolution:
Newt Gingrich was a history professor.
 Tom Delay was an exterminator. 
Dick Armey was an economist.
 House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer.
 The former Senate Majority Leader Bill First is a heart surgeon.

 

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like First, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich. The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America .. And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers Party, grow.

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?….Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation. This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become adverse parties of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.

When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.

The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!

While I don’t necessarily agree with ALL the points, he does make some good ones… And one case in point is Angelos the owner of the Orioles and a lawyer, he made an estimated $100 million off the asbestos suits, when the average claimant got less than $2000. His ‘claim to fame’ is class action suits, and the majority of the $$ go to him, not the members of the class action… sigh… 

Sandusky GUILTY!!!

Posted on by March 6, 2013
One more sleazebag off the streets, too bad it’s taken TEN years for this to happen…


Guilty on 45 of 48 counts, projected sentence of over 400 years!


Article HERE.  

Survived another one…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Back from yet another trip, only ‘fun’ part of this one was watching the bus drivers hand flying a 777ER through and around the thunderstorms building into the DC area this afternoon! 🙂  They had the bird rockin and rollin off airways, cleared to maneuver as required!

It’s not often you see the pilots come out of the cockpit grinning… Just sayin…

And for all those pet lovers out there…

And one more just for S&Gs…

And my body clock is totally hosed, so I’m going to slee zzzZZZZ…

Push the button… PUSH the button…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Interesting little advertising video…


And yes, there is ALWAYS somebody that will push the button…



It’s not just people in the USA that are that gullible…


Sigh… 🙂

Hey You…

Posted on by March 6, 2013


The desk, built from timbers of the HMS Resolute and a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes is considered a national treasure and an icon of the presidency…

The White House belongs to the people of America. It’s treasures should NOT be used by ANYONE for a foot rest!  This photo and others (just do a web search) are ongoing proof that this man has NO class whatsoever, and shows an innate disrespect for OUR White House.
SO, HERE’S A MESSAGE FROM THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA:
Mr. Obama, you’re not in a hut in Kenya or Indonesia, 

or in Chicago public housing.


You’re in the White House, 

property of the people of the United States.

With all due respect, get your @#%*+#% feet off our furniture..!

A Swing… And a Miss…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Typhoon (now Tropical Storm) number 05W went by last night, the eye missed us by about 75 miles, winds were ‘only’ 25-30, gusting 40. BUT, there was a wind leak in the window of my room, so it WHISTLED like a banshee for about 4 hours… sigh… and I was still wide awake at 0400 local…


No significant damage, but leaves and a few small limbs down.  Off to work now (and try to stay awake).