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Odds and Ends XXVII

Still on the road and still getting the USA Al-Jazeera Today delivered to my hotel room.

1. Page 1 has the headline “Oversight of airport screening ‘a waste’. Report: Gaps found but follow-up lacking”.

I guess we run tests to see how well the TSA does their jobs at airport security – and when they fail – the follow up of finding the root cause and corrective action is just not happening.

Well, what do you expect? The Democrats insisted the TSA agents be government workers. Have you ever seen an efficient government agency? But let’s give the government our healthcare system.

I can’t make up this lack of common sense that is liberal thinking. No one would believe it, if I just wrote it as a story.

2. Page 3A: “Drivers still leaving cars in park.” Driving is down 5% across the nation.

Well isn’t that what Al Gore and the Democrat environmental communists wanted to have happen? Less driving means less business, less tax revenue and eventually, less jobs. But, this is what you get with liberal Democrat approaches to solutions. Get used to it as the chains of communism get heavier.

3. Page 4A: “36 states offer release to ill or dying inmates – Programs help cut costs of health care, officials say”.

Are you kidding me? How does releasing a sick criminal into society save money? The ‘parolee’ can’t work, has no money and sometimes no place to live. He will simply leave the prison infirmary and show up at a regular hospital – paid for by the government – at a higher cost! That is if he decides not to have one final crime spree, since he is dying soon anyway.

Folks, get your guns. You are on your own if you have not figured this out yet. Our government has one job – and that is to protect it’s citizens. They are doing everything but that.

4. Also 4A: “Head of Ark. Democrats dies in shooting; suspect killed”

That’s a shame.

5. Page 11A: “Ravaging fire season torches Calif. Budget – Wild costs spark plan for residential fees.”
Liberalism at it’s nutty best. Instead of the State of California collecting money from logging companies to clear brush and manage forests for them – the State decides it is better to let the fires happen, kill firefighters, destroy homes, destroy acres of forest and pollute the air with smoke – and let the citizens pay extra for it.

Pure insanity – but that is liberalism.

Does everyone see the possible motive behind #4? People will have had enough of liberals, and sooner than people realize. The trouble is – people instead of standing up for their neighbor when liberals take away your neighbor’s rights, people don’t fight until their rights are under assault.

It is too late then, because there are less free people to stand with you. Liberals count on good people doing nothing. – Hank Dagny

2nd Amendment Saves Citizens III

Hat tip to Freedom Magazine for the stories you never see in the MSPAM.

1. Pizza Hut deliveryman James Spiers thought he was making a routine delivery. Instead, he walked into an ambush. An armed man approached Spiers to rob him. They got into a struggle – until Spiers was able to produce his own handgun. He was able to shoot the robber three times.

Pizza Hut, in their infinite wisdom, fired 10 year employee Spiers for violating corporate policy forbidding employees from carrying firearms.

Feel free to contact these morons at Pizza Hut Corporate Headquarters at (800) 948-8488 or their web site.

2. Angela and Jeff Patterson were watching TV when a man carrying a pistol burst into their apartment. The intruder demanded money, the TV and then ordered the couple to disrobe. The assailant got a little too involved watching Angela and Jeff was able to charge at the robber. As Jeff struggled with the intruder, Angela ran to their room and got their pistol. She ran back to the living room and shot the attacker dead.

My kind of woman!

3. A carjacker, carrying a rifle, tried to take Charles Todd’s car. Todd took cover behind the pumps, drew his handgun and fired two shots at the carjacker. Needless to say, the carjacker decided to try his luck somewhere else and fled the scene.

Well #3 almost happened to me at a gas station. I had a man begging for money on one side of my vehicle and his buddy approaching me on the other side, acting like he was reading a newspaper. I stepped back and said in a very loud voice, “I can’t help you man,” while putting my hand on my pistol in my pocket. I didn’t draw it, but I pressed it out against my trousers. The beggar yelled, “It’s cool, it’s cool,” and walked away at a fast pace. His paper reading buddy made a U-turn and headed back to the station.

Without my CCW and weapon, I might not be here right now. My near experience and those of Jim and Chuck’s – I can deal with.

Number 2 just gets my skin to crawling, and you have to be willing to do what is necessary to defend yourself. Angela took care of business!

Ladies, are you listening? Voting Democrat will get you raped and killed. – Hank Dagny

Odds and Ends XXV

Back on the road, so I have my faithful source of all that is liberal - the USA Al-Jareera Today – to review each morning. Do I know how to spoil a breakfast, or what?

1. On the front page is the obligatory picture of a crying woman holding a child outside a bombed out building. The story is about the new conflict in the world between Georgia and Russia over some province of Georgia.

Now the province seems to want to be Russian. Georgia wants them to stay part of Georgia.

Solution: Let them be Russian. We are talking 70,000 people, most of whom want to be Russian. Georgia is a friend to the United States, but sometimes friends make mistakes. I side with Russia on this one. So far.

2. On page 3A, the liberalism just is over the top. Former Chillicothe, OH law director Ed Bunstine is on trial today for tampering with evidenced and obstructing justice. Absolutely no mention of what political party Bunstine belongs to.

You know if he was a Republican that is how the sentence would have started.

3. There is a picture of a liberal couple in Watkinsville, Georgia (what is with all the troublemakers in Georgia all of a sudden?) getting props from the USA Al-Jareera Today for beating back capitalism.

Five states are vying for a bio-tech lab in their state and these two don’t want it in their town. Health and safety concerns, don’t you know.

So they are putting the brakes on 350 jobs, 350 home sales, 350 property tax collections and not to mention all the spending 350 families do in their home town. The USA Al-Jareera Today is a proud of them as they can be.

I got news for the United States citizens. China has 300 bio-tech firms, all working around the clock – and without a single environmental, animal rights or regulatory restriction. Most of their college grads are men have engineering and science degrees – not women with liberal arts, journalism, social science or law degrees, like we have.

Oh, and their graduating high school students can read and find the United States on a map, unlike some of ours in Detroit.

Keep shutting down commerce and science technology in your own country USA Al-Jareera Today. It’s noble work you are doing. For those of you in Ann Arbor, MI – that was sarcasm.

4. On page 9A, the headline screams, “Iraq wants ‘clear timeline’ for U.S. pullout”. Well we want a clear timeline as to when you can keep terrorists out of your country. You will not like it if we have to come back in.
The USA Al-Jareera Today made the headline sound like Iraq was ordering us out, when the real story is that discussions are taking place to set up goals for withdraw. That is a good thing.

Why do these liberal traitors at the USA Al-Jareea Times have to always write everything so negative?

You know why. Negative is the natural born mental state of a liberal. – Hank Dagny

The Decline of a Democratic Republic to Dictatorship - The USA is Simply Repeating History

Reader Mentor Jim submitted this and called it “The Frog Theory”. I would call it the natural rise and fall of democracies. Athens did it. Rome did it. And now the United States is doing it. People rise up as a nation as a free republic in work boots and fall into a dictatorship in bunny slippers.

“If you drop a frog in boiling water he will leap right out. If you slowly heat the water he will be content until it’s too late to get out. That is exactly how history works. It moves slowly and we never really see any danger until it’s too late.

Remember how suppressed workers were before unions came along? Unfortunately, over a long period of time the pendulum swung too far. Slowly, businesses and factories closed and jobs left the country. We were comfortable and didn’t see the change coming. We blamed everyone except ourselves for what happened.

World War II, and the Korean War, demonstrated how powerful a united nation could be. Our nations, and our families, were united. The father was the head of the family and the President was the head of the nation. Both were highly respected. We were content and happy.

We were good at fighting a hot war but we were unprepared to fight a cold war with the communists in the 50’s. They knew they couldn’t change us but they didn’t care. Their philosophy was to wait it out and capture the minds of our children. They loaded our colleges with many of their professors and waited. It didn’t take long to see the results.

The 60′’s ushered in the radicals, drug culture, and student protesters [Ed. Note: Who now run the Democrat Party]. They divided our families and the nation. The secret to defeating a polite and respectful people is to scream. The louder and longer you scream the better your chance of winning. Radicals are masters at this form of attack. They know if you constantly scream and repeat a lie it will eventually become the truth.

The [liberal] media, and [communist] Hollywood, hammered us with hate America themes and stories. Our service men, and women, were jeered, cursed, and spit on. Even the people, who latter wanted to become their President, thrashed them.

The Reverend King, who was raised in the old school, peacefully changed the race issue and united the people. When he died the new breed of leaders like the Jesse Jackson’s, Lewis Farakon,’s Al Sharpton’s, and Rev. Wright’s put a lid on his efforts and turned racism into a money making machine.

Corporations were green-mailed by threats of protests, product boycotts, or endless lawsuits. Every issue, large or small, became a race issue. The public recoiled in fear of being called a racist. Their voices were silenced because one word could cost you a career, get you fired, or get you sued.

Even politicians buckled under to the pressure. The Florida legislature issued a formal apology for having slavery 200 years ago. They were thanked by being asked for compensation. There is no end in sight for this kind of nonsense.

This election year could be the turning point in our history because the frog theory has come into play. It’s time to step back and look at how the country has slowly changed since the cold war started.

George McGovern was the first Presidential candidate to test the waters [with pure Socialism. He lost in a landslide].

Step two was to infiltrate all the information vehicles such as radio, newspapers, magazines, TV and movies. They were quite successful at that. Jimmy Carter was the first President to demonstrate the leadership skills of the far left. Weak military, high taxes, runaway inflation, 19% mortgage rates, and plain incompetence ended his career in Washington. Iran, a small country at the time, took American hostages and kicked sand in our face. By negotiating from weakness Carter could not get the hostages released.

The big benefit of the Carter years is that they were followed by the Reagan years. The nation got a clear look at the difference between a weak nation and a strong nation. Every student should know this difference. When Ronald Reagan took over the hostages were quickly released, taxes were lowered, inflation dropped, mortgage rates dropped, and the military was strengthened. Russia quickly waved the white flag and waited for another Democrat term.

Clinton took over Carters uncompleted social programs. He weakened the military and tried to pass large government programs. An Intern derailed his Presidency. While he was tied up with his personal problems his lawyers ran the country. He passed up three opportunities to take out Osama Bin Laden. This eventually cost us the loss of our Twin Towers, thousands of American lives, and got us involved in a war with Iraq. By the end of his term the left had captured a large share of the media and it flexed its muscle in 2000. The hate Bush campaign got off to a roaring start. The brainwashing theory of repeating the same story over and over again was launched.

There were endless stories about our evil nation and its President. Top-secret plans were leaked to the press and printed for the entire world to see. Hollywood cranked out documentaries about the evil Bush administration and our evil military. They laid the groundwork for the next election. The ACLU flooded the courts with lawsuits and the Democrat party became a law firm. Almost every incumbent, or his or her spouse, is a lawyer.

They now have the perfect candidate because they can squash criticism by playing the race card. If you don’t like Obama, or criticize him, you are a racist. They can hide his inexperience and background by turning him into a rock star and singing change and hope. They don’t tell us what kind of change [communism. The Democrat Party is the home of the Communist Party], or how it will be done, only that you should hope for the best. By keeping the hype going they don’t have to put anything of substance on the table.

The change being promoted is a change back to the Carter years. Returning to the Carter years of high taxes, high inflation, and a weak military is not the change we are looking for.

The heat is slowly being turned up and the water is getting hot. The old frogs’ better start jumping before it’s too late.”

The only problem with your solution Jim, is that there are plenty of old frogs that are the 60’s communist hippies, or that realize the end is near and just want their social security and healthcare until they meet their maker, and will gladly let their children suffer the chains of Democrat-Communist Party.

Thanks for the article Mentor Jim. – Hank Dagny

Just a Reminder…The Races May Not Be Over

I’ve accepted the humiliating fact that I finally was wrong about something. It took almost a decade of blogging and predictions, but it finally happened. It is a weird feeling to be wrong. How do the rest of you stand it? It is my first time - and I don’t like it!

My predictions for the two main party nominees were Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton. He was the best looking governor on the list and she was Mrs. Bill Clinton. I predicted her victory due to a terrible economy and massive cheating at the polls.

The economy only slowed as many of the hits I knew would happen, could not end the momentum of the Bush tax cuts. The Democrats got Clintonaire’s Disease and the Republican blue bloods in control pulled another Dole maneuver and told Romney, “next time son.”

I have no excuse on why I was wrong on the economy going into a depression. The stuff I thought would happen did, and we still have maintained growth, although slowed.

But I have to say that I had no idea the two major parties are so incompetent and inept. Who could, unless you are in the bowels of the parties, and I am not.

But as we watch the two winners of the primaries constantly embarrassing themselves, one has to ask when Party generals will decide, “Our guy is an anchor and we got to cut the line.”

It is one thing to repeat a past mistake – as the Republicans have done (Dole-itis) - and another to get Clinton Poisoning, and screw up. But to watch your decision sail over a waterfall and not try and turn it around, is pure insanity!

Barack KKK America -Not Proud of and God Damn America - Disown Grandma - Disown Crook Resko - Disown Blew Up the Pentagon Ayres - Disown church of 20 years – Flip flop on Iraq – voted for subsidies for oil companies – flip-flopped on oil – solve energy problem with air gauge – Hussein Obama, cannot open his mouth without making a fool of himself. And it gets worse when he is off a teleprompter or off script from his writers and handlers.

John McCain is running the only presidential campaign where the candidate swings and misses on every home run pitch thrown by his opponent – on purpose most of the time! The rest of the time he sounds as ignorant as Hussein does.

If either Romney (vs Hussein) or Hillary (vs McCain) were in the race, they would be up by 3 to 1 in the polls and it would be over!

I know I now realize the management of the two major parties are dumber than a box of rocks, but this is an embarrassment. Actually, it is insanity. Neither McCain or Hussein can run a two car parade, let alone the lone world’s super-power.

There is still time for the two major Parties to correct their mistake. Romney is too much of a party-line guy to do anything on his own. But I have all the confidence in the world in the underhandedness of the Clintons.

Hillary, there are plenty of other parks and mountain ranges. – Hank Dagny

The Nutroot Liberals Are Out in Force

While working on a campaign, you get many emails from liberal groups that spit these letters out like sunflower seeds out of the mouth of an unused relief pitcher in the bullpen. Some of the names are real, some are not and most are computer generated.

Real liberals don’t work or don’t have very demanding jobs, so they have time for this nonsense. Anyway, here is the latest idiocy being sent to candidates:

[ Dear Hank Dagny,

Sixty-three years ago this week, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States still has an arsenal of more than 6,000 nuclear weapons that could produce this kind of destruction and horror again.

More and more people, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, former Sen. Sam Nunn (GA), and former Defense Secretary William Perry, are calling on the United States to work toward total nuclear disarmament.

I hope that your candidate would support this call and would, if elected, advocate cutting the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal by at least 50 percent. I look forward to hearing from you how you would advance a world free of nuclear weapons in Congress.

Sincerely,
Asick Liberal ]

My reply was the usual two by four of truth between the eyes:

{ Dear Every real sick liberal sending this email,

If you are an enemy of the United States, please quit sending idiotic emails to candidates and crawl back to the cesspool country you came from. Your propaganda will not work with real Americans.

If you are actually an American…GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR BUTT!

What is wrong with you? There are nations that want us destroyed and there are religious fanatics that want us dead - and you want to cut our nuclear arsenal by 50%?

Using your logic, eliminate locks, doors and security systems and you will eliminate stealing.

And if you wish to eliminate rape, you would walk thru a prison yard in a bikini (yes, men too) and tell the guards to leave.

And if you take guns away from all citizens, no one will be murdered and violent crime will stop. Yes, I know you actually believe this one. It’s the same insanity on another issue.

Your logic section of your brain is defective and a sure sign of the mental illness known as liberalism.

If I were you, I would read LQ every day and get a subscription to Rush Limbaugh’s website - and do it quickly.

The mental illness of liberalism can be cured, but only if you drown yourself in the truth - and let it sink in!

Do it right now! God bless you on a speedy recovery.

Sincerely,
Hank Dagny

I am positive they will vote for my guy now. It only makes logical sense.

Uh-oh! - HD

A Democrat Voter Knows Better Than To Admit They Are One

Who can blame them?

Liberals have always been a silent group – unless they get together and become an unruly or unlawful mob. Conservatives can meet, discuss decide and leave – and you can’t even find evidence they were there. Liberals litter, wreck things, burn things and usually a few or many – end up in jail.

Most liberals instinctively know that their believe system is out of kilter, so they usually keep quiet in most public venues. Oh, you will see the occasional whacko car with the AlGoreGreen, Code Pink, Kerry/Edwards, My Body-My Choice and a Hillary underneath an Obama bumper stickers around Ann Arbor. It could be a man or woman driving, but one thing is for sure – they will be going 50 mph in the left lane of the freeway and won’t dare look at the other drivers who wish them - well, usually a fiery death.

The list of acts perpetrated by Democrats in the last few weeks run the gambit from abnormal, to criminal, to shameful, to treasonous, to zero acts.

Democrats went from blaming Big Oil to speculators – and then back to Big Oil, while doing absolutely nothing in Congress to change anything. Either follow thru on your attempt to socialize everything, or let capitalism work. But to do nothing is not only cowardice and dereliction of duty, but it is also cruel to citizens.

Obama changes his opinion on an issue as often as he changes cities for campaign appearances. Every stop starts with a ‘clarification’ of what he meant and not actually what he said at the last stop, but then he goes on to state the next idiotic, racist, socialist or treasonous statement he will have to ‘explain’ later.

Obama said he would raise taxes even though he knows tax cuts put more money into the treasury. He said he would still vote against the surge even though he admitted it worked. He wants us to inflate our tires because that would save the same amount of gas as if we drilled for more. This is the best presidential material the Democrats have?

The Democrat Propaganda Committee – also known as the main stream press and media – are at a loss to understand why the worst Republican candidate in the history of the GOP has closed the gap on Obama. After all, they have run a24/7 infomercial on their man Hussein, and they are losing ground. Hint to the MSPAM; the public now knows what you are.

Nancy Pelosi did not like the way our democratic government was carrying on business. After all, it is her HOUSE! So, she turned the microphones and the lights off – and banned television coverage of her antics. Republicans were trying to force a vote on oil drilling and the gutless Democrats wanted no part of democracy in action. Besides, they were late for the start of their five week vacation.

John Edwards, the Breck Girl, got caught in a hotel with a real girl – that wasn’t his cancer stricken wife. He hid in a basement men’s room for over an hour – without a hair dryer running no less – until hotel security could throw out the reporters actually staying at the hotel, in order to let Edwards slip away.

At least this woman knew better than to fool around with a married Democrat near water.

The Democrat Congress set a new low in public approval ratings as they sunk to 8%. The MSPAM still carries the word of Bush’s 38% approval ratings like it is the sign of a Democrat revolution. I’d hold off on the champagne if I were them.

With all that the Democrats and their voters do and stand for – I would pretend I was not one too – if I was them. It is truly an embarrassment to be a liberal - and overtly treasonous to be a Democrat voter.

But liberalism is a self-curing mental illness. All you have to do is act moral and accept facts and truth into your brain. Pure and simple. – Hank Dagny

I’m Just Flat Out Tired of the Idiocy

I’m tired of Al Gore telling me every move to make.
I’m tired of Obama telling me how much of my income he is going to take.

I’ve just about had my fill of crooked people like the Harry Reid’s.
I’m tired of Code Pink, the NY Times, and liberals and their unpatriotic deeds.

I know Nancy Pelosi could screw up a two car parade.
And I’m tired of the liberal media still pedaling their charade.

I’m tired of Arianna Huffington and John Kerry acting like they give a care.
They are proof positive you can be stupid and still be a billionaire.

I’m tired of Jesse Jackson keeping blacks at the end of a string.
I’m tired of liberal blogs who don’t understand one common sense thing.

I’m hoping Hollywood runs out of film and I am sick of everything on TV.
Everyone watches reality shows, except for me.

I’m tired of the Olympics already and France loving to ride a bike.
And I don’t give a care about what some actresses dress looks like.

It would really be nice if one rap singer could play three chords.
I’m fed up with celebrities and their ‘hand ourselves a trophy’ awards.

Barry Bonds hit a bunch of fake home runs.
And Brett Farve refuses to accept he’s done.

I would like to watch football without 24/7 coverage of TO.
I’m ready, willing and able to tell the Clintons where they can go.

I’d tell the terrorists where they will go and will pay their dues,
In a sane country, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon would always show up to boos.

I would destroy a liberal in a debate and prove that on everything - they are just wrong.
I would like to name every liberal that is a true traitor to the United States,

But the list is too long. - Hank Dagny

Hat tip to Tim Wilson for a few lines here and the inspiration for this post.

Happy Birthday to the Rush Limbaugh Show!

Twenty years Rush has been there for conservatives and for the country.

I shudder to think of where our nation would be without him. But the Lord works in mysterious ways. What he has done with the talent and brains he has “on loan…from God” is truly amazing!

Rush’s show shares the same birthday date as yours truly. Coincidence? I think not! - Hank Dagny

Obama is no Change. He Sounds Like ‘Gas Lines’ Jimmy Carter

Yeah, he sounds that ignorant.

The word from Hussein in a speech somewhere to fellow liberals - is that we all should inflate our tires so we won’t have to drill for oil anywhere.

This is the best the Democrats have. A re-tread of past liberal solutions that caused gas lines, closed stations, double digit inflation, 20% interest rates and unemployment unrivaled since the Great Depression.

If you vote Democrat, you are either a blithering idiot or already a confirmed communist. Pure and simple. – Hank Dagny