Butch Jackson, unlike many of the political elite, doesn't think Barrack 'O-bomb-a' is very smart, "The economic ignoramus in the White House, and most of Congress, do not understand these fundamental facts: Tax rate cuts, like the Bush cuts which are expiring at year end, cause tax revenue to go UP, not down. Lowering tax rates encourage economic activity, create jobs, and therefore increase the amount of profits and wages that are subject to taxation. This ain't rocket science and anybody with half a brain knows this."
"Also, nobody ever mentions that Democrats, including then Sen. Obomba, never uttered the words Bush Tax Cuts during 2003-2009 without adding the bullshit qualifier---for the very wealthiest Americans. Now, they want to extend these Bush tax cuts for the middle class only and call them 'Obama's Tax Relief for the Middle Class'. You can't stack horse manure higher then this. Why is nobody asking how they can extend something that they claimed for almost a decade never existed in the first place? They just insult anybody with an ounce of intelligence which I guess excludes their voting base down at the drug store."
Butch knows pretty well how to get Billy Roy into most conversations, "Butch, you nailed the major issue. Even at a lower level it is ridiculous what Obomba is trying to pull. George Bush inherited Clinton's Internet Bubble Popping recession along with a tax system with 40% of the taxpayers not paying any taxes at all. Then the graduated tax system in effect at the time had the bottom bracket earners paying at a 15% rate while the top bracket (those making individually over $200,000) paying 39.6% of their earnings in income taxes. George, being the nasty conservative that he was, decided to provide tax cuts AND to redistribute the wealth (Dems should have applauded him). In fact, in what the Dems called the 'Bush tax cuts for the rich', Bush reduced the lowest rate to 10%, a 33% reduction, while reducing the top bracket to 35%, a reduction of only 11.6%. These tax reductions stimulated economic growth enabling the financing of two wars and the spending of Pelosi and Reid in Bush's last two years. Jobs were created, wages and income went up, and the government collected more taxes. This economic growth continued for most of two Bush terms until the real estate bubble popped in his last year in office opening the door for the rape and pillage of the Obomba Chicago mob."
"Now Obomba wants to renew all tax rates except the highest bracket resulting in another redistribution of wealth creating a spread between the lowest and highest brackets of 29.6% (10%-39.6%). As politicians argue about whether to give an 'Obama tax cut for the Middle Class' what they really are doing is raising taxes on the highest bracket and increasing the redistribution of wealth which is Obomba's prime purpose in life right behind destroying the US economy, playing golf, taking vacations, and listening to himself."
Continuing what might be Billy Roy's longest speech ever, "And who are the people in this top bracket who Obama says 'don't need more money'? 93% of small business owners file individual returns and many are tax payers whose combined income is over $250k. 50% of small business income is generated by individuals who file joint individual returns over $250k. 30% of consumer spending is done by taxpayers who make over $250k. These folks are the heart of our economic system. We shut them down at our own peril. Remember what Abe Lincoln said, 'You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich'."
Scott Riddle doesn't miss much when he thinks someone is putting their hand into his pocket, "This guy, I can't bring myself to say his name, was not going to raise taxes by 'one single dime' for people that made under $200k as he gave tax cuts to 95% of Americans. How about this list of tax hikes going into effect:
l. Raising the rates on the highest bracket from 35% to 39.6%
2. The dividends tax will rise from 15% this year to 39.6% impacting retirees
3. The return of the Death Tax in 2011 with a top rate of 55% from 0% this year
4. The 'marriage penalty' returns
5. The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1,000 to $500 per child
6. The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married couples
7. The dependent care and adoption tax credits will be cut
8. Your W-2 will be grossed up to show the costs (in many cases an additional $15-20k) of any health care your employer will provide
9. The capital gains tax will rise from 15% to 20% percent
11. There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare
12. The Alternative Minimum Tax will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year
13. Small business expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing of equipment will disappear
14. There are literally scores of tax hikes on business that will take
place. The biggest loss is the research and experimentation tax credit
15. Tax benefits for Education and Teaching are reduced
16. Charitable Contributions from IRAs will no longer be allowed
"The Heritage Foundation says Obama's Tax Hikes will destroy an average of 693,000 jobs every year while draining $726 billion from disposal income, $38 billion from personal savings, and $33 billion from business investments. They will cost the average non-farm small-business owner $3,500 more in taxes. Cost the 49% of all seniors with income below $250,000 $1,500 in higher taxes and $525 in additional dividend taxes. Cost the 25% of all seniors with income below $250,000 $742 in higher taxes. I think they are underestimating the damage."
"The bigger the politician's mouth, the bigger his lies, and this guy's mouth is huge," Billy Roy tipped his hat and headed for his truck.
Think really hard about November 2,
Jim
Monday, September 20, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Really, You Couldn't Make This Up, Again
Boredom set in on the Cafe folks this week so they played 'Even J.D. Couldn't Make This Up'. To jog your memory J.D. Phelps once ran the Humble Gas Station on the Corsicana Highway where he could rev up any story as he was never reined in by what some might consider to be the truth. The game is played by several of the folks providing a mostly true story, usually about current events, followed by a vote of clanking spoons on coffee cups to designate the winner.
Scottie Anderson, local insurance tycoon and a semi-world class story teller himself kicked events off loaded with statistics, "In the last year we have arrested 43 American born and reared Muslims for terrorists crimes. We have had 11 different attacks by Islamic terrorists, all home grown, here in our country with the Fort Hood shooting by Major Hussan being the worst. At this time our Homeland Security bureaucrats have no strategy for home grown militant Jihadist Muslims. Instead of pushing them for solutions the guy in the White House is more worried about 'Islamaphobia' for people he says cling to their Bibles and guns. Nope, even J.D. could not make this up. I come from a family of experts at making things up, and J.D. was one of the best."
"You know Obama will not speak on the wisdom of building the Ground Zero Mosque which reminds me of the old saying, 'Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad'. Obama's fruit salad is another man's fertilizer." Scottie finished third in the cup clanking.
Aunt Martha, being a writer of some local renown, is great at transitions, "Speaking of the Homeland Security jokers did you see what they did in Pennsylvania. Seems a gentleman named Gene Stilp loves to inflate his giant rubber pink pig and demonstrate against excessive government spending. It was revealed this week that he was high on the Home Land Security watch list of suspected terrorists. I am not making this up." Martha did not place in the voting since the folks don't care so much about defending pink inflatable rubber pigs-- I guess.
The last one to speak was Mom who worries too much about her grandchildren not to mention her great grandchildren,"Well the President spoke on TV this week and the teachers in Austin made the kids watch. Riley Ann (third grader) told her Mom, Cathey, that all he talked about was what a bad student he was in school. When asked what message she got from that, Riley answered 'I guess you can be a bad student and still get elected President of the United States'. Cathey then asked Jamie Sue (7th grader) her impression, Jamie said,'All he said was what a bad student he was in school.' When asked her reaction, Jamie said, 'That shouldn't surprise anyone that evidently he was bad then too!'."
"Mom says she asked a liberal friend from the drug store why they thought everything was Bush's fault, Mom liking Laura like she does. The lady friend said, 'I didn't say it was Bush's fault, I said we were blaming him'. Mom finished a close second place in the voting.
Billy Roy Mitchum decided years ago not to go national with his country and western singing career which pleases folks in Central Texas that they can keep him close to home. One reason for staying local was that he was afraid they might include California in his tours so he brings up California a lot, "Did you guys see what they call Prop 19. The land of fruits and nuts want to add pot to that label by making marijuana legal. They say they need the money. Only on the Left Coast would they tell their young teen agers that it is OK to get and stay stoned once they are of age. During what they call the development years teens are trying to decide whether they want to be a scientist, an NFL millionaire football player, or a drug addict. Pot arrests the teens development causing them to drop sports, flunk classes, and just chill out. Anything that encourages our young folks to take drugs is worse than criminal no matter how much tax revenue it raises for the Liberal Elite." As usual BM finished first in the voting.
Well, several folks wanted to talk about things like the START Treaty and the US financing drilling Mexican oil in the Gulf but time just ran out so stay tuned.
Jim
Scottie Anderson, local insurance tycoon and a semi-world class story teller himself kicked events off loaded with statistics, "In the last year we have arrested 43 American born and reared Muslims for terrorists crimes. We have had 11 different attacks by Islamic terrorists, all home grown, here in our country with the Fort Hood shooting by Major Hussan being the worst. At this time our Homeland Security bureaucrats have no strategy for home grown militant Jihadist Muslims. Instead of pushing them for solutions the guy in the White House is more worried about 'Islamaphobia' for people he says cling to their Bibles and guns. Nope, even J.D. could not make this up. I come from a family of experts at making things up, and J.D. was one of the best."
"You know Obama will not speak on the wisdom of building the Ground Zero Mosque which reminds me of the old saying, 'Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad'. Obama's fruit salad is another man's fertilizer." Scottie finished third in the cup clanking.
Aunt Martha, being a writer of some local renown, is great at transitions, "Speaking of the Homeland Security jokers did you see what they did in Pennsylvania. Seems a gentleman named Gene Stilp loves to inflate his giant rubber pink pig and demonstrate against excessive government spending. It was revealed this week that he was high on the Home Land Security watch list of suspected terrorists. I am not making this up." Martha did not place in the voting since the folks don't care so much about defending pink inflatable rubber pigs-- I guess.
The last one to speak was Mom who worries too much about her grandchildren not to mention her great grandchildren,"Well the President spoke on TV this week and the teachers in Austin made the kids watch. Riley Ann (third grader) told her Mom, Cathey, that all he talked about was what a bad student he was in school. When asked what message she got from that, Riley answered 'I guess you can be a bad student and still get elected President of the United States'. Cathey then asked Jamie Sue (7th grader) her impression, Jamie said,'All he said was what a bad student he was in school.' When asked her reaction, Jamie said, 'That shouldn't surprise anyone that evidently he was bad then too!'."
"Mom says she asked a liberal friend from the drug store why they thought everything was Bush's fault, Mom liking Laura like she does. The lady friend said, 'I didn't say it was Bush's fault, I said we were blaming him'. Mom finished a close second place in the voting.
Billy Roy Mitchum decided years ago not to go national with his country and western singing career which pleases folks in Central Texas that they can keep him close to home. One reason for staying local was that he was afraid they might include California in his tours so he brings up California a lot, "Did you guys see what they call Prop 19. The land of fruits and nuts want to add pot to that label by making marijuana legal. They say they need the money. Only on the Left Coast would they tell their young teen agers that it is OK to get and stay stoned once they are of age. During what they call the development years teens are trying to decide whether they want to be a scientist, an NFL millionaire football player, or a drug addict. Pot arrests the teens development causing them to drop sports, flunk classes, and just chill out. Anything that encourages our young folks to take drugs is worse than criminal no matter how much tax revenue it raises for the Liberal Elite." As usual BM finished first in the voting.
Well, several folks wanted to talk about things like the START Treaty and the US financing drilling Mexican oil in the Gulf but time just ran out so stay tuned.
Jim
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Looney Politicians and 911
Mom worries the most about politicians that she strongly believes are "just not in touch with realty". The reason this concerns her the most is that these politicians are actually "voted and many times kept in office by citizen voters who don't seem to notice or care that their elected officials are looney". This weekend while viewing the 911 Memorial Ceremonies Mom was inflamed by the interruption of one Michael Bloomberg, who folks up there claim is the mayor of New York City.
Evidently Bloomberg compared the Islamic Muslim Radical Terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Towers and murdered over 3,000 innocent people with the people who want to stop the construction of an Islamic Muslim Mosque near the site of the murders. This Islamic worship site is to be named after a Spanish mosque, Cordoba, that was built on the site of a Christian church to celebrate the Muslim conquest of Spain. The idiot mayor said both groups, terrorists and protesters, are trying to take away people's freedom. Mom just doesn't understand how you equate moving a mosque away from a sacred site with cowardly taking the lives of 3,000 innocent men, women, and children.
Bloomberg was then asked about the progress of plans to build on the site which was destroyed 9 full years ago as the TV camera showed the vacant lot with one crane in the background. Loonberg, which would be a more appropriate name, said he was very pleased with their progress since there were two railroad line underneath the site.
Bloomberg summed up his insane comments by saying the mosque issue was purely political and would go away after the November election. I guess he and the elites think they can build their mosque and merrily go on about their business once the rednecks get past their elections. Once the politicians get through this whole project will probably be corrupted costing tax payers money and tarnishing the memory of our lost heroes.
Meanwhile the real mayor, Rudy Giuliani, believes they should not even build a commercial building on the Twin Towers site but a memorial only.
Mom says, "Don't think this is just New York City's problem because many are rumoring that Bloomberg may run on a third party ticket in 2012 taking enough Republican votes to re-elect the Black Liberation Theologists currently in OUR White House much like Perot did for Clinton, not once but twice. Once re-elected and Barry doesn't have to worry about those pesky elections he will have Reverend Wright living in his own wing of the White House."
In the spirit of full disclosure you should know that Mom is upset about people meddling. Her Great Grand Daughter, Riley Ann, was recently forbidden to bring peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to school in looney Austin, Texas. Seems Riley Ann didn't like eating turkey burgers, turkey hot dogs, collard greens, and other professed to be healthy things in her school cafeteria. Then when she carried her lunch, the food Nazis said there might be children in school with allergies to Riley's peanut butter. I guess they thought they might steal her lunch. Trust me, Riley is tough and nobody is going to get her lunch. So what does Riley eat now? Only cheetos!! All this in the pursuit of interfering in Riley's life to force her to be healthy.
Mom who is enjoying her 88th year says, "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals, dying of nothing."
God Bless those who lost, and gave, their lives on 911 and their families (46 babies were born without parents who were lost on 911). May God also give us the wisdom and courage to protect our innocents from evil in the days ahead.
Jim
Evidently Bloomberg compared the Islamic Muslim Radical Terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Towers and murdered over 3,000 innocent people with the people who want to stop the construction of an Islamic Muslim Mosque near the site of the murders. This Islamic worship site is to be named after a Spanish mosque, Cordoba, that was built on the site of a Christian church to celebrate the Muslim conquest of Spain. The idiot mayor said both groups, terrorists and protesters, are trying to take away people's freedom. Mom just doesn't understand how you equate moving a mosque away from a sacred site with cowardly taking the lives of 3,000 innocent men, women, and children.
Bloomberg was then asked about the progress of plans to build on the site which was destroyed 9 full years ago as the TV camera showed the vacant lot with one crane in the background. Loonberg, which would be a more appropriate name, said he was very pleased with their progress since there were two railroad line underneath the site.
Bloomberg summed up his insane comments by saying the mosque issue was purely political and would go away after the November election. I guess he and the elites think they can build their mosque and merrily go on about their business once the rednecks get past their elections. Once the politicians get through this whole project will probably be corrupted costing tax payers money and tarnishing the memory of our lost heroes.
Meanwhile the real mayor, Rudy Giuliani, believes they should not even build a commercial building on the Twin Towers site but a memorial only.
Mom says, "Don't think this is just New York City's problem because many are rumoring that Bloomberg may run on a third party ticket in 2012 taking enough Republican votes to re-elect the Black Liberation Theologists currently in OUR White House much like Perot did for Clinton, not once but twice. Once re-elected and Barry doesn't have to worry about those pesky elections he will have Reverend Wright living in his own wing of the White House."
In the spirit of full disclosure you should know that Mom is upset about people meddling. Her Great Grand Daughter, Riley Ann, was recently forbidden to bring peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to school in looney Austin, Texas. Seems Riley Ann didn't like eating turkey burgers, turkey hot dogs, collard greens, and other professed to be healthy things in her school cafeteria. Then when she carried her lunch, the food Nazis said there might be children in school with allergies to Riley's peanut butter. I guess they thought they might steal her lunch. Trust me, Riley is tough and nobody is going to get her lunch. So what does Riley eat now? Only cheetos!! All this in the pursuit of interfering in Riley's life to force her to be healthy.
Mom who is enjoying her 88th year says, "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals, dying of nothing."
God Bless those who lost, and gave, their lives on 911 and their families (46 babies were born without parents who were lost on 911). May God also give us the wisdom and courage to protect our innocents from evil in the days ahead.
Jim
Friday, September 10, 2010
Who Is This Guy Living In Our White House?
Things started off pretty negative. Butch Jackson, usually one of the most inspirational people to coffee way regular at the Cafe, was in a really bad mood. "Man, I got to drive all the way to Waco to try to find a Wilson Sureshot 5 Iron for my golf clubs vintage 1962. I know I can't find one but if I buy any kind of replacement it will make the old one show up that being the only way I find things these days."
Billy Roy countered, "Butch, that don't make a lot of sense. You sound like you are getting old and somewhat goofy."
"I am old, and it is somewhat worrisome."
"Why worry about old age when it don't last that long," BM pretty much closed down this part of the opening conversation. "Well things just keeping get upside down it seems like. Muslims are strapping suicide bombs to kids and women and planting them under any road they can find, and the Liberal Elite justify it right and left based on how we just aren't treating them right."
"They murder over 3,000 folks in the Twin Towers and now want to build a Muslim church to commemorate the event and anybody who calls them out on it is called a racist, redneck, and wacko. Muslims burn American flags and Bibles all over the world, and then when some little preacher in Florida threatens to burn a Koran everybody from the President of the United States on down call him a wacko, and the guy gets regular visits from the FBI because they are afraid he is going to make the cowardly bombers mad. Like they need a reason to lie, murder, lash, and stone women. This all takes the focus off how the White House Guy is letting the Iranians build nuclear weapons which may be a bigger event than burning a Koran in front of your congregation of 50 with attendance of no more than 15 on any Sunday."
Butch was feeling much better now with his blood boiling and all, "BM, you rock in a country kinda way. Can you believe the latest Liberal Elite press trick is to ask a Conservative if they think Obama is a Muslim hoping they will get a yes so they can jump on the guy with all the wacko, red neck, radical, racist terms. Did you see that they asked Haley Barbour, the Governor from the great red state of Mississippi, why folks thought Obama was a Muslim, and he answered because people know less about this guy than any President in our history. Just who would have believed in the year 2010 in these United States of America that people would be arguing over whether the guy living in the White House is, let me make a list here:
Muslim
Black Muslim
Black Liberation Theologists
A Reverend Wright Brand of a Christian
Socialist
Marxist
Communist
Extreme Liberal Elitist
Narcissist
And the very newest, An Anticolonialist
"Butch, where the hell did that one come from," BM inquired?
"From Obama's Dad. He was a Luo tribesman who grew up in Kenya and studied at Harvard. Obama Sr. spent his life trying to correct the plight of poor nations who suffered at the hands of the colonialist. Folks claim his father's dreams are now Obama's dreams (Dreams from My Father). Obama Sr. also was a polygamist who had, over the course of his lifetime, four wives and eight children. One of his sons, Mark Obama, has accused him of abuse and wife-beating. He was also a regular drunk driver who got into numerous accidents, killing a man in one and causing his own legs to be amputated due to injury in another. In 1982 he got drunk at a bar in Nairobi and drove into a tree, killing himself. Clinton's dad was a polygamist and died drunk in a car wreck the same way," continued Butch who was pretty much talking to himself by now since the Cafe had pretty much cleared out.
BM called back to Butch on his cell, "Seems like Clinton and Obama are like birds of a feather that flock together, and then shit on your truck."
Think about it this Saturday it being 911,
Jim
Billy Roy countered, "Butch, that don't make a lot of sense. You sound like you are getting old and somewhat goofy."
"I am old, and it is somewhat worrisome."
"Why worry about old age when it don't last that long," BM pretty much closed down this part of the opening conversation. "Well things just keeping get upside down it seems like. Muslims are strapping suicide bombs to kids and women and planting them under any road they can find, and the Liberal Elite justify it right and left based on how we just aren't treating them right."
"They murder over 3,000 folks in the Twin Towers and now want to build a Muslim church to commemorate the event and anybody who calls them out on it is called a racist, redneck, and wacko. Muslims burn American flags and Bibles all over the world, and then when some little preacher in Florida threatens to burn a Koran everybody from the President of the United States on down call him a wacko, and the guy gets regular visits from the FBI because they are afraid he is going to make the cowardly bombers mad. Like they need a reason to lie, murder, lash, and stone women. This all takes the focus off how the White House Guy is letting the Iranians build nuclear weapons which may be a bigger event than burning a Koran in front of your congregation of 50 with attendance of no more than 15 on any Sunday."
Butch was feeling much better now with his blood boiling and all, "BM, you rock in a country kinda way. Can you believe the latest Liberal Elite press trick is to ask a Conservative if they think Obama is a Muslim hoping they will get a yes so they can jump on the guy with all the wacko, red neck, radical, racist terms. Did you see that they asked Haley Barbour, the Governor from the great red state of Mississippi, why folks thought Obama was a Muslim, and he answered because people know less about this guy than any President in our history. Just who would have believed in the year 2010 in these United States of America that people would be arguing over whether the guy living in the White House is, let me make a list here:
Muslim
Black Muslim
Black Liberation Theologists
A Reverend Wright Brand of a Christian
Socialist
Marxist
Communist
Extreme Liberal Elitist
Narcissist
And the very newest, An Anticolonialist
"Butch, where the hell did that one come from," BM inquired?
"From Obama's Dad. He was a Luo tribesman who grew up in Kenya and studied at Harvard. Obama Sr. spent his life trying to correct the plight of poor nations who suffered at the hands of the colonialist. Folks claim his father's dreams are now Obama's dreams (Dreams from My Father). Obama Sr. also was a polygamist who had, over the course of his lifetime, four wives and eight children. One of his sons, Mark Obama, has accused him of abuse and wife-beating. He was also a regular drunk driver who got into numerous accidents, killing a man in one and causing his own legs to be amputated due to injury in another. In 1982 he got drunk at a bar in Nairobi and drove into a tree, killing himself. Clinton's dad was a polygamist and died drunk in a car wreck the same way," continued Butch who was pretty much talking to himself by now since the Cafe had pretty much cleared out.
BM called back to Butch on his cell, "Seems like Clinton and Obama are like birds of a feather that flock together, and then shit on your truck."
Think about it this Saturday it being 911,
Jim
Monday, September 6, 2010
Islam: Cafe Wants to Call Their Bluff, NOW
This writer was in Hubbard this weekend and while walking my dog, Max, I ran into an old buddy and former famous running back at Hubbard High and Navarro Junior College in the early-to-mid 50s, the one and only Dudley Castalow. Dudley and I both tried to come up with an old story or two that would be like new if the other hadn't heard it before (which is not unusual since we have been doing this for too many years to remember very easily). On this day Dudley got me. It seems an old friend named, Gerald Wayne Pursley, had fallen on hard economic times years ago and had driven up what would be called today "a deficit" around town. Well, Dudley says Gerald Wayne went down to J. D.'s Humble Gas Station and asked J. D. if he could write a $25 check for cash. J. D., knowing somewhat about this deficit thing, told Gerald he could, but there was a $15 charge for hot checks. Gerald carefully studied his situation before responding, "Well, in that case, J. D., you better make it for 40."
Not only Gerald, but several other Hubbard folks occasionally played, and still play, a card game named Texas Hold Em. So its not surprising that their card speak bleeds over into political discussions and pretty much everything else. Scott Riddle, who would take either side of any bet at any time for any amount of money with anybody waded into the whole topic of our problem with the Islamic world, "Time to call these Arabs bluff. They keep telling us that terrorists are a tiny number of Muslims, that the majority of Muslims are moderate, and that those who worship true Islam are practicing a very peaceful religion. In fact, anyone that doesn't buy into this explanation is being called a radical, racist, and is against the freedom of religion. Yet the terrorists turn their own children into human bombs in the name of Allah who they say has ordered them to either convert infidels to Islam or kill them. They call it Jihad."
"I couldn't agree more with the problem, Scott," Billy Roy, himself entered this conversation early which always draws considerable interest from the folks. "Even after 9/11 there are dummies who say that we must engage our terrorist enemies, that we must address their grievances. Heck, their grievance is our freedom of religion. Their grievance is our freedom of speech. Their grievance is our democratic process where the rule of law comes from the voices of many not that of just one crazy prophet. Heck, we instill respect in our children towards all religions to a fault in my opinion. Their grievance is the kindness and respect a gentleman shows a woman, the justice we practice as equals under the law, and the mercy we grant our enemy. Their grievances ain't going to be answered by any stinking Obama-type apologies. It just makes them feel we are impotent."
And here came Butch Jackson as usual with both feet, "Our sissy attitude of not confronting Islamic forces of bigotry and hatred wherever they raised their ugly head in the last 30 years, has empowered and strengthened these cowards to launch a full scale attack on the very freedoms we cherish in their effort to impose their values and way of life on our civilization. Scott, we are locked up in our agreement on this issue, but how do we call whose bluff?"
"The only folks that can really stop this terrorism as it exist today are those who claim to be 'Muslim Moderates'. They say they are against violence and terrorist acts, so we need to make them show it by calling their bluff. We need to wake up and challenge these Muslims to take action against the terrorists, and I don't mean just speaking out. They should completely cooperate with the non-Muslim world to capture or kill Islamic radicals. For the sake of our children and our country, we must wake up and take action. We must either call out these so called moderates to police their own people or assume they are supporters of Jihad themselves, and make them pay the price."
Billy Roy summed it up as usual, "Scott, it is almost as if Obama thinks once the Iranians get nuclear weapons then the free world will be too scared to take actions against the radicals, and he will somehow be off the hook. The time to put our chips on the table is right now."
Otherwise, as Gerald Wayne figured out, this country will have to write a much larger check.
Think about it,
Jim
Not only Gerald, but several other Hubbard folks occasionally played, and still play, a card game named Texas Hold Em. So its not surprising that their card speak bleeds over into political discussions and pretty much everything else. Scott Riddle, who would take either side of any bet at any time for any amount of money with anybody waded into the whole topic of our problem with the Islamic world, "Time to call these Arabs bluff. They keep telling us that terrorists are a tiny number of Muslims, that the majority of Muslims are moderate, and that those who worship true Islam are practicing a very peaceful religion. In fact, anyone that doesn't buy into this explanation is being called a radical, racist, and is against the freedom of religion. Yet the terrorists turn their own children into human bombs in the name of Allah who they say has ordered them to either convert infidels to Islam or kill them. They call it Jihad."
"I couldn't agree more with the problem, Scott," Billy Roy, himself entered this conversation early which always draws considerable interest from the folks. "Even after 9/11 there are dummies who say that we must engage our terrorist enemies, that we must address their grievances. Heck, their grievance is our freedom of religion. Their grievance is our freedom of speech. Their grievance is our democratic process where the rule of law comes from the voices of many not that of just one crazy prophet. Heck, we instill respect in our children towards all religions to a fault in my opinion. Their grievance is the kindness and respect a gentleman shows a woman, the justice we practice as equals under the law, and the mercy we grant our enemy. Their grievances ain't going to be answered by any stinking Obama-type apologies. It just makes them feel we are impotent."
And here came Butch Jackson as usual with both feet, "Our sissy attitude of not confronting Islamic forces of bigotry and hatred wherever they raised their ugly head in the last 30 years, has empowered and strengthened these cowards to launch a full scale attack on the very freedoms we cherish in their effort to impose their values and way of life on our civilization. Scott, we are locked up in our agreement on this issue, but how do we call whose bluff?"
"The only folks that can really stop this terrorism as it exist today are those who claim to be 'Muslim Moderates'. They say they are against violence and terrorist acts, so we need to make them show it by calling their bluff. We need to wake up and challenge these Muslims to take action against the terrorists, and I don't mean just speaking out. They should completely cooperate with the non-Muslim world to capture or kill Islamic radicals. For the sake of our children and our country, we must wake up and take action. We must either call out these so called moderates to police their own people or assume they are supporters of Jihad themselves, and make them pay the price."
Billy Roy summed it up as usual, "Scott, it is almost as if Obama thinks once the Iranians get nuclear weapons then the free world will be too scared to take actions against the radicals, and he will somehow be off the hook. The time to put our chips on the table is right now."
Otherwise, as Gerald Wayne figured out, this country will have to write a much larger check.
Think about it,
Jim
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Cafe Folks Explore Glenn Beck's Pursuit of Honor
Local retired banker and former right tackle, not to be confused with this writer's brother who played left tackle, D. L. Holiman quoted his hero Ronald Reagan before he had even sugered and saucered his coffee this morning, "Reagan said 'to say the federal government was spending money like drunken sailors would be to insult the sailors since they were at least spending their own money'. What would Reagan say about the Obama/Pelosi/Reid deficit. The CBO is projecting a fiscal year 2010 budget deficit of $1.34 trillion (with a T). Combined with the actual $1.41 trillion deficit from fiscal year 2009, the last 2 years will have created $2.75 trillion of debt. The 17 years from 1992 through 2008 created $2.62 trillion of debt. We thought George Bush with two wars and a Democratic Congress (Pelosi/Reid) was going crazy and even they kept the deficit under $400B."
Billy Roy, who it seems at times has regular dialogue with Reagan and others who have passed on but left big footprints, was quick to repond to the what would Reagan do question, "He said more than once that 'government would not solve the problem, that government was the problem'. Scotty, what's your take on this mess?"
"Dr. Martin Luther King's niece, Dr. Alveda King nailed it this weekend at Glenn Beck's shindig in Washington when she said 'Our material gains are going the way of our moral losses'. Our economic problems are piling up on top of the corruption and immorality of our society," answered Scotty Andersen, local insurance tycoon, father of a college football player and coach, and choir leader from the very largest Baptist church in downtown Hubbard City. "Glenn Beck's Pursuit of Honor Rally leap frogged politics and went right to the heart of most of our nation's problems (and even the World's) that being 'God is the Answer'. Beck's historical research discovered some Pre-American Revolution church ministers called the Black Robe Regiment (because of the robes they wore). They preached that all men had the same rights, and these rights came from God, not from the King of England back then (nor even from Obama/Pelosi/Reid today). Their sermons roused the folks starting 30 years before the actual Revolution. People like Jefferson, Adams, Franklyn, and Washington were mentored by these preachers. Their principles and values laid down the foundation for our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Republican form of government that has created the greatest country in world history."
"Sarah Pallin said, 'we don't need to transform this country like some (Obama himself) are calling for, but we need to restore our Nation to our original values'. She was speaking as the mother of a soldier, not a politician. I saw the whole thing on Facebook, and it was way too serious to be about something as rotten as politics what with our soldiers and veterans being celebrated and all," Butch Jackson piped in showing some substantial knowledge of the subject matter at hand which is not that unusual.
Banker D. L. pushed a tough question to Butch, "What about Beck calling our President a racist?"
"Beck apologized which he shouldn't have in my opinion," Butch was anxious to respond liking the easy questions as he does. "He amended his statement to say that Obama practiced Liberation Theology like his Rev. Wright. That theology practiced in some Black Churches is racist as well as having Marxist roots and contrary to most Christian beliefs. Everyone should google 'Liberation Theology' to see what we are dealing with at the highest levels of our government or else if you guys would like to stay around another hour and a half, I'll be happy to give a tutorial."
As usual, Billy Roy summed it up as folks were racing from the Cafe to their trucks, "Well if Glenn Beck keeps talking against liars, thieves, racists, bigots, cheaters, and political pimps he is sure going to make a lot of enemies who will be calling for his scalp. They seem to want to all call him a 'hatemonger', and I guess that means he sorta hates liars, thieves, racists, bigots, cheaters, and political pimps. Seems to me it is not such a bad bunch to line up against. But that's about all I know about it."
Me too,
Jim
Billy Roy, who it seems at times has regular dialogue with Reagan and others who have passed on but left big footprints, was quick to repond to the what would Reagan do question, "He said more than once that 'government would not solve the problem, that government was the problem'. Scotty, what's your take on this mess?"
"Dr. Martin Luther King's niece, Dr. Alveda King nailed it this weekend at Glenn Beck's shindig in Washington when she said 'Our material gains are going the way of our moral losses'. Our economic problems are piling up on top of the corruption and immorality of our society," answered Scotty Andersen, local insurance tycoon, father of a college football player and coach, and choir leader from the very largest Baptist church in downtown Hubbard City. "Glenn Beck's Pursuit of Honor Rally leap frogged politics and went right to the heart of most of our nation's problems (and even the World's) that being 'God is the Answer'. Beck's historical research discovered some Pre-American Revolution church ministers called the Black Robe Regiment (because of the robes they wore). They preached that all men had the same rights, and these rights came from God, not from the King of England back then (nor even from Obama/Pelosi/Reid today). Their sermons roused the folks starting 30 years before the actual Revolution. People like Jefferson, Adams, Franklyn, and Washington were mentored by these preachers. Their principles and values laid down the foundation for our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Republican form of government that has created the greatest country in world history."
"Sarah Pallin said, 'we don't need to transform this country like some (Obama himself) are calling for, but we need to restore our Nation to our original values'. She was speaking as the mother of a soldier, not a politician. I saw the whole thing on Facebook, and it was way too serious to be about something as rotten as politics what with our soldiers and veterans being celebrated and all," Butch Jackson piped in showing some substantial knowledge of the subject matter at hand which is not that unusual.
Banker D. L. pushed a tough question to Butch, "What about Beck calling our President a racist?"
"Beck apologized which he shouldn't have in my opinion," Butch was anxious to respond liking the easy questions as he does. "He amended his statement to say that Obama practiced Liberation Theology like his Rev. Wright. That theology practiced in some Black Churches is racist as well as having Marxist roots and contrary to most Christian beliefs. Everyone should google 'Liberation Theology' to see what we are dealing with at the highest levels of our government or else if you guys would like to stay around another hour and a half, I'll be happy to give a tutorial."
As usual, Billy Roy summed it up as folks were racing from the Cafe to their trucks, "Well if Glenn Beck keeps talking against liars, thieves, racists, bigots, cheaters, and political pimps he is sure going to make a lot of enemies who will be calling for his scalp. They seem to want to all call him a 'hatemonger', and I guess that means he sorta hates liars, thieves, racists, bigots, cheaters, and political pimps. Seems to me it is not such a bad bunch to line up against. But that's about all I know about it."
Me too,
Jim
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