"The American people have handed over our country to lawyers whether they are politicians, judges, ACLU pukes, practicing attorneys, political suck up military leaders, or practitioners of political correctness. Most of them are all power and money hungry sleazy lawyers. Take what just happened in California. Albert Brown raped a 14 yr old girl, got paroled, and then raped and strangled a 15 year old with her own shoe laces. He didn't stop there as he called the little girl's parents and verbally tortured them with vivid descriptions of her murder. The California system of justice, run by lawyers, sentenced old Albert to the death penalty. That was 30 years ago. His execution was stayed a couple of weeks ago until 2011 because they were not sure his execution would be painless because they didn't have the necessary medications available at the time of his execution. Hell, I would've jerked a rope around Old Albert's neck within 15 minutes of his sentencing some 30 years ago and saved the tax payers millions while sending a message to rapists and murderers that God fearing, law abiding people frown on that stuff." Seems Billy Roy is somewhat ornery coming off his back surgery.
The room somewhat erupted in response with Butch's voice winning out as is the usual custom, "This lawyering political correctness crap is OK as long as it is harmless, but most of the time these days it's not even semi-harmless. They have us distracted about getting patted down and pictured nude at airports, meanwhile Obama and our Attorney General Eric Holder are putting the whole world at risk due to their incompetence in governing in a time of war against terrorists. Since these two lawyers hate the military and intelligence agencies they both guaranteed convictions if we try the terrorists in civilian courts. Obama said one year ago, 'I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and...the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism and have brought multiple convictions before are telling us that they will convict this person with the evidence they've got going through our system.' Just like he guaranteed no one would lose their insurance coverage or pay higher taxes. And what happened last week? A New York federal jury acquitted alleged Al Qaeda accomplice Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on Wednesday of all major terrorism charges in the 1998 suicide bombings of two U.S. embassies in Kenya (home of Obama's father) that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. They found him guilty of one charge, conspiracy."
Even the world's greatest waitress, Linda Hoerton, got into this one, "I hear they threw out evidence that this Ahmed guy had bought the explosives to make the bombs. Just because this captured military combatant terrorist slime bag informer had a little water poured down his snout. Whose side are these lawyers on anyway?"
BM came back in like a hawk on a field mouse, "Can't you just hear an Al Qaeda recruiter talking to some frustrated Muslim teenager at this very moment. 'Look what happened in the New York court. Even the infidels know our cause is right. They found brother Ghailani not guilty on 224 false charges. When you serve Allah, he will serve you.' These guys know better than anyone what a joke the American defense and security systems have become under the governance of Obama and his liberal lawyers."
"So what's next for our great protector, Obama? He wants our Congress to drop everything and approve his START Treaty with the Russians. What nation in its right mind would let Obama and his intellectuals negotiate a nuclear treaty when the major debate around the world is whether Obama is a Communist enemy of the State or just a totally misguided incompetent narcissist who watches ESPN all day?"
"Meanwhile in the real world at 2:43 PM local time yesterday, North Korea fired artillery rockets at the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong setting dozens of residential homes ablaze, wounding three civilians and fifteen soldiers, and killing two South Korean Marines. In August, the North fired 110 artillery shells near Yeonpyeong and another island. And in March, 46 sailors were killed when a North Korean torpedo sunk the Cheonan. Clearly Hillary and Obama's strategy of using sanctions against N. Korea and Iran while hoping China and Russia will bring sanity to these goofballs is a disaster and is putting the free world at risk. Maybe Obama thinks putting gays in the military will scare off the bad guys."
"Seems like we should keep a guy like Obama focused on little things like health care, saving the world from global warming, putting salad bars in grade schools, and determining whether the Auburn quarterback should be eligible for post season play."
"You are putting some heavy thought on us today, BM. I don't know the answer, but I do know if things keep on, then we aren't going to have a choice. Hubbard City is going to have to get our own lawyer," whimpered Butch in his saddest voice since he was last asked by a transient person about Hubbard's football record of 0-10 this year. Seems Butch's senior year they were 1-9, and Butch don't like finishing second to nobody.
On second thought, maybe we shouldn't think about all this for a while. Let's just give thanks for the elections this month.
Jim
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Getting Even More Curious About The Character of Public Men
This writer had lunch at Billy Mack Waller's Country Kitchen which is right across the street from the Hubbard City Cafe. My only reason for being there is Billy Mack cooks the best cheese burger in these United States of America. Also, Bill has some pretty good signs on the wall like, "I've got what it takes: But nobody seems to want it". While there, Billy told me, "Nancy Pelosi is so mean she would vote her own county to go dry and then move to another county. And that ain't right!"
Billy's quotes remind me of Samuel Adams who said, "The public can not get too curious concerning the character of public men." I am curious these days about all of these scanners in airports that are looking right through people's clothes no matter whether the people are 13 years old or 80. No matter whether they are Catholic Nuns or West Texas Cowboys. Being politically correct, Secretary Janet Napolitano, who runs Homeland Security, treats everyone the same as she looks for explosive lotions and powders. Meanwhile, as my hero, Charles Krauthammer says, "The Israelis are the experts. They look for terrorists, not lotions. They profile like any sane organization would. Profiling is not only the most effective approach, but the most efficient."
My curiosity really peaked reading the following news about one of the scanner providers:
OSI Systems Chief Executive Officer Joins US Presidential Visit to India
HAWTHORNE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that Deepak Chopra, Chairman and CEO, was selected to accompany US President, Barack Obama, to Mumbai and attended the US India Business Entrepreneurship meeting, which was held by the US India Business Council (US IBC). The goal of the meeting was to promote further trade between US and India.
Then the news that our old friend George Soros dumps his half million dollar investment in OSI just two days ago adds more stink to Obama, Napolitano, Soros, and friends. Old Samuel Adams was ahead of his time. This writer predicts that the new Republican House will investigate and find Obama corruption that will make Nixon, Clinton, etc. look like choir boys. It will probably start with those thugs in the Justice Department and reach out to Chicago of course.
Across the street Scott Riddle held court at the Hubbard City Cafe. Scott likes to serf the net looking at sites like the Communist Party USA to scout what he calls, "Obama and our competition". Scott was pretty wound up in delivering his latest report, "The Commies are really going crazy about the recent elections. They said Republicans won with big lies, hatred, fear mongering, and racism. They fed the following list to their faithful:
1. A lie that Obamacare would establish 'death panels' to determine standards of care
2. A lie that Obama's stimulus bailed out Wall Street
3. A Lie that Obama's spending created the deficit (just because it went from $400B to $1T)
4. Republicans generated hatred for our Black President
5. Republicans suppressed the voting of Hispanics
6. The Democrats didn't have a good narrative to explain the deficit. The commies fear this could result in a movement to reduce the size of government.
The Communist Party's website define themselves as the 'Peoples Movement' made up of progressives and Labor Unions. Their greatest fear is 'this notion' pushed by Republicans that the country needs a smaller federal government. The Communist argue that health care, housing, and nutrition can only be solved by a large and strong federal government. They urge their followers to fight for the following major programs at this time:
1. Dramatically cut military spending (this is naturally the only cut they want to make)
2. Defeat any efforts to reduce the number of Public Union Employees
3. Raise taxes on all citizens with high income
4. Support comprehensive immigration reform by immediately passing the Dream Act which would put illegal immigrant children through college and endear Hispanics to their progressive movement and the Democratic Party.
It is obvious that the commies feel they can take over if they can get enough people into unions and provide amnesty to illegal immigrants. I challenge anyone to find one thing in Obama's play book that is not in the play book of the Communist Party of the USA."
Well said, Scott,
Jim
Billy's quotes remind me of Samuel Adams who said, "The public can not get too curious concerning the character of public men." I am curious these days about all of these scanners in airports that are looking right through people's clothes no matter whether the people are 13 years old or 80. No matter whether they are Catholic Nuns or West Texas Cowboys. Being politically correct, Secretary Janet Napolitano, who runs Homeland Security, treats everyone the same as she looks for explosive lotions and powders. Meanwhile, as my hero, Charles Krauthammer says, "The Israelis are the experts. They look for terrorists, not lotions. They profile like any sane organization would. Profiling is not only the most effective approach, but the most efficient."
My curiosity really peaked reading the following news about one of the scanner providers:
OSI Systems Chief Executive Officer Joins US Presidential Visit to India
HAWTHORNE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that Deepak Chopra, Chairman and CEO, was selected to accompany US President, Barack Obama, to Mumbai and attended the US India Business Entrepreneurship meeting, which was held by the US India Business Council (US IBC). The goal of the meeting was to promote further trade between US and India.
Then the news that our old friend George Soros dumps his half million dollar investment in OSI just two days ago adds more stink to Obama, Napolitano, Soros, and friends. Old Samuel Adams was ahead of his time. This writer predicts that the new Republican House will investigate and find Obama corruption that will make Nixon, Clinton, etc. look like choir boys. It will probably start with those thugs in the Justice Department and reach out to Chicago of course.
Across the street Scott Riddle held court at the Hubbard City Cafe. Scott likes to serf the net looking at sites like the Communist Party USA to scout what he calls, "Obama and our competition". Scott was pretty wound up in delivering his latest report, "The Commies are really going crazy about the recent elections. They said Republicans won with big lies, hatred, fear mongering, and racism. They fed the following list to their faithful:
1. A lie that Obamacare would establish 'death panels' to determine standards of care
2. A lie that Obama's stimulus bailed out Wall Street
3. A Lie that Obama's spending created the deficit (just because it went from $400B to $1T)
4. Republicans generated hatred for our Black President
5. Republicans suppressed the voting of Hispanics
6. The Democrats didn't have a good narrative to explain the deficit. The commies fear this could result in a movement to reduce the size of government.
The Communist Party's website define themselves as the 'Peoples Movement' made up of progressives and Labor Unions. Their greatest fear is 'this notion' pushed by Republicans that the country needs a smaller federal government. The Communist argue that health care, housing, and nutrition can only be solved by a large and strong federal government. They urge their followers to fight for the following major programs at this time:
1. Dramatically cut military spending (this is naturally the only cut they want to make)
2. Defeat any efforts to reduce the number of Public Union Employees
3. Raise taxes on all citizens with high income
4. Support comprehensive immigration reform by immediately passing the Dream Act which would put illegal immigrant children through college and endear Hispanics to their progressive movement and the Democratic Party.
It is obvious that the commies feel they can take over if they can get enough people into unions and provide amnesty to illegal immigrants. I challenge anyone to find one thing in Obama's play book that is not in the play book of the Communist Party of the USA."
Well said, Scott,
Jim
Friday, November 12, 2010
Butch's Big Dream About Old Crazy Noah Rings True in 2010
When word gets around Hubbard that Butch Jackson has had another big dream it is beginning to make it hard to get a chair at coffee time, that being 3:00 PM everyday but Sunday. This week Butch came in with a really big one.
Here it goes, "This dream puts me right in the middle of a big deal going on several hundred years BC (that being 'before Christ' for those of you guys who live on both coasts). It seems there is this guy named Algore who has surrounded himself with the most famous scientists of the era, and some local venture capitalists, of the times, who all have become somewhat interested in building personal wealth. Algore is going from village to village scaring women, children, and local dimwits about the evils of water. Seems Algore believes that the middle eastern area of the earth could be threatened by flood if evil water wells got out of control with excessive flooding to the extent that the world, as Algore and scientist knew it, could be destroyed. Algore's speeches were accompanied by scrolls and parchments depicting hand drawn graphics of mostly little children and pretty women drowning in pools of water."
Billy Roy has had enough, "Stop right there, Butch. You really dreamed this stuff? Even if you didn't the story is going to have to pick up a little to keep me awake still being on my happy pills to some extent due to my recovering back surgery of course."
"It more than picks up, BM. Check this out. Algore and friends come with big time reform solutions. They call it 'Bring Your Cup and Trade'. They set up something they call exchanges at each water well. If one lady at the well doesn't fill up her cup she must buy a credit for the water she didn't use from another lady who did use her water. This intent was to use the water up so it wouldn't flood. Of course Algore gets a commission for handling the transaction as he says he is also measuring the water to keep the earth from flooding."
"I bet the water credits were pretty cheap, how did they make much money doing this," came back BM, always a little skeptical of Butch's stories for a number of really good reasons.
"There is way more," smiled Butch, giving the audience a hint that BM had really opened this conversation up in a way that might not be so good being some folks needed to get back to work. "Algore and friends also declared that most camels and donkeys don't drink enough water. They get the local Romans to declare that all such animals must be bought in the future from Algore who had a way more expensive set of vehicles, but claims they drink more water which will keep the earth from flooding. They name their new animal breeds, The Californians. Algore also advertises that their poop doesn't stink. He doesn't stop there. Algore also gets some regulations passed that call for new cups that have holes in the bottom spilling water and a bunch of other stuff like that. So Algore and buddies not only save the world from flooding but make a s__t pot full of money as well."
Sweet Lou feel hook line and sinker for the pause that Butch put in at this point, "Sad story Butch. That stuff just don't seem right to me."
"Not over, Lou. This local boat dealer known as Old Crazy Noah, who is supported by someone named God, who opposes folks like the venture capitalists, shows up in the nick of time. Seems he just builds this great big boat even though Algore has already saved the world from flooding."
BM is really tugging at his hat and starts jingling his truck keys, "Close it down Butch. It looks like it might take a weird turn here if you aren't somewhat careful with your memory."
"Winding down, BM. Seems a rain comes from the sky, not the water wells, for 40 days and most of those nights, and slap dab drowns everyone except this guy Noah, his friends, family, and favorite animals. These animal breeds become known as Texas Longhorns, Shorthorns, and of course, omething called Polled. Kinda restarts the whole world over without the venture capitalists, scientists, and government regulators."
"And what about Algore," Mom had to ask.
"Oh rumor has it he is living in South America some place under another name and is running drugs into Mexico."
This writer just wonders out loud if maybe Butch's dream wasn't influenced by the fact that when the Republicans won back the House putting a damper on CAP AND TRADE that the price of carbon credits being sold on the Chicago Exchange went from $7 a ton to 10 cents a ton shutting the exchange down. Just maybe the safety of our World is still in the hands of God instead of the Algores, venture capitalists, scientists, and government regulators.
Think about it,
Jim
Here it goes, "This dream puts me right in the middle of a big deal going on several hundred years BC (that being 'before Christ' for those of you guys who live on both coasts). It seems there is this guy named Algore who has surrounded himself with the most famous scientists of the era, and some local venture capitalists, of the times, who all have become somewhat interested in building personal wealth. Algore is going from village to village scaring women, children, and local dimwits about the evils of water. Seems Algore believes that the middle eastern area of the earth could be threatened by flood if evil water wells got out of control with excessive flooding to the extent that the world, as Algore and scientist knew it, could be destroyed. Algore's speeches were accompanied by scrolls and parchments depicting hand drawn graphics of mostly little children and pretty women drowning in pools of water."
Billy Roy has had enough, "Stop right there, Butch. You really dreamed this stuff? Even if you didn't the story is going to have to pick up a little to keep me awake still being on my happy pills to some extent due to my recovering back surgery of course."
"It more than picks up, BM. Check this out. Algore and friends come with big time reform solutions. They call it 'Bring Your Cup and Trade'. They set up something they call exchanges at each water well. If one lady at the well doesn't fill up her cup she must buy a credit for the water she didn't use from another lady who did use her water. This intent was to use the water up so it wouldn't flood. Of course Algore gets a commission for handling the transaction as he says he is also measuring the water to keep the earth from flooding."
"I bet the water credits were pretty cheap, how did they make much money doing this," came back BM, always a little skeptical of Butch's stories for a number of really good reasons.
"There is way more," smiled Butch, giving the audience a hint that BM had really opened this conversation up in a way that might not be so good being some folks needed to get back to work. "Algore and friends also declared that most camels and donkeys don't drink enough water. They get the local Romans to declare that all such animals must be bought in the future from Algore who had a way more expensive set of vehicles, but claims they drink more water which will keep the earth from flooding. They name their new animal breeds, The Californians. Algore also advertises that their poop doesn't stink. He doesn't stop there. Algore also gets some regulations passed that call for new cups that have holes in the bottom spilling water and a bunch of other stuff like that. So Algore and buddies not only save the world from flooding but make a s__t pot full of money as well."
Sweet Lou feel hook line and sinker for the pause that Butch put in at this point, "Sad story Butch. That stuff just don't seem right to me."
"Not over, Lou. This local boat dealer known as Old Crazy Noah, who is supported by someone named God, who opposes folks like the venture capitalists, shows up in the nick of time. Seems he just builds this great big boat even though Algore has already saved the world from flooding."
BM is really tugging at his hat and starts jingling his truck keys, "Close it down Butch. It looks like it might take a weird turn here if you aren't somewhat careful with your memory."
"Winding down, BM. Seems a rain comes from the sky, not the water wells, for 40 days and most of those nights, and slap dab drowns everyone except this guy Noah, his friends, family, and favorite animals. These animal breeds become known as Texas Longhorns, Shorthorns, and of course, omething called Polled. Kinda restarts the whole world over without the venture capitalists, scientists, and government regulators."
"And what about Algore," Mom had to ask.
"Oh rumor has it he is living in South America some place under another name and is running drugs into Mexico."
This writer just wonders out loud if maybe Butch's dream wasn't influenced by the fact that when the Republicans won back the House putting a damper on CAP AND TRADE that the price of carbon credits being sold on the Chicago Exchange went from $7 a ton to 10 cents a ton shutting the exchange down. Just maybe the safety of our World is still in the hands of God instead of the Algores, venture capitalists, scientists, and government regulators.
Think about it,
Jim
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Let The Games Begin!!!
Billy Roy Michum is getting out a little now coming off his back surgery and seems he has some pent up gusto when it comes to the political scene, "Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, also known as the Iron Lady, once said, 'Socialists eventually run out of other peoples money'. Well seems that has happened in the US and most of the world. Or to put it in local terms, 'the s--t has hit the fan'. America has reached a point where citizens and politicians can't put things off any longer. The growth of federal government has exploded, not just in spending (up from approximately $20,000 per household in 2000 to $31,000 today), but in its reach. Government now sticks its dirty hands into every nook and cranny of our daily lives, from the type of toilet we can purchase, to the mix of fuel we can put in our cars, to the kind of light bulb we can use. Government policies have all but stopped domestic energy production (that would be US oil and gas) while pouring billions of public dollars into stupid alternative energy subsidies (that would be the wind and sun and stuff), reflecting the elitist, 'progressive' faith that bureaucrats can pick winners and losers better than private markets. As a result, energy is too expensive and we have grown too dependent on foreign oil. And now, unelected bureaucratic jerks have been empowered to dictate what health services we will purchase and how and from whom we will receive them."
Well, this little intro sent the coffee drinkers into a frenzy being that they don't even know what decaf is. Sweet Lou Tekell, pulled his new Hubbard City Cafe hat down real tight and entered the fray, "Good call, BM. Obama's Deficit Reduction Commission made their pitch today which puts the putt on the ice so to speak. Little O and the Libs will get out early with a proposed agenda that includes stuff like:
Tax hikes (as many hidden as possible) particularly on higher income
Claims their health care plan and a bigger government takeover, will reduce costs
Arguments that we need to dangerously reduce military costs while closing down agencies like the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency for those of you in Mr. Calm)
And last, but not least, putting more businesses under government control and regulation.
Mao, Stalin, Castro, and Chavez would be envious of this plan."
BM came back, "Exactly Lou. That's why I have asked Butch to draft a Hubbard City Cafe 'Proclamation On Cutting Stuff'' to drive economic recovery in these United States. What have you got , Butch?"
"Alright guys our position is basically something like a smaller more restrained federal government, reduced spending, lower taxes, and strong defense. These are the first steps that I will be emailing to DC this afternoon. Let's compare these details with the recommendations of Little O's Commission:
One: FREEZE AND CUT SPENDING: First and foremost, the age of entitlements must end. Rather than allow these programs to bankrupt us on autopilot, Congress should set firm and enforceable budget caps for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Congress must also immediately freeze discretionary budget authority at 2010 levels; and cut at least $200 billion from the federal budget for fiscal year 2012.
Two: REPEAL OBAMACARE: Congress must immediately pass a bill that repeals Obamacare. Until Congress is able to get the President to sign a law repealing Obamacare, it must withhold funding, block key provisions and override regulations carrying out Obamacare. Only after Obamacare is rejected, can Congress undertake a careful, thoughtful legislative process to make practical adjustments that allow the free market to provide affordable, effective health care insurance choices.
Three: STOP THE OBAMA TAX HIKES: Congress must reject the Obama tax hikes, and make permanent the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, thereby helping the economy grow and create more jobs.
Four: PROTECT AMERICA: Congress must pass a budget resolution that won’t put our troops at risk or leave Americans vulnerable. It can do this by providing for defense an average of $720 billion per year (to be adjusted for inflation) for each of the next five fiscal years, in addition to the funding needed for ongoing contingency operations. Congress must make the defense budget as efficient as possible and reinvest dollars achieved from reforms in the military to offset the cost of modernizing and developing next-generation equipment.
Five: GET CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT: Congress must immediately reestablish legislative accountability by posting complete legislation, ending earmarks, reviewing all unauthorized programs and respecting constitutional limits on government. Congress must check executive branch overreach with aggressive oversight, roll back recent government interventions, stop unnecessary administrative regulations and sunset new ones, restrict bureaucrats’ rule making authority and override expansive executive orders."
BM closed, "Hit the send button real hard, Butch, and let the games begin."
Join in folks,
Jim
Well, this little intro sent the coffee drinkers into a frenzy being that they don't even know what decaf is. Sweet Lou Tekell, pulled his new Hubbard City Cafe hat down real tight and entered the fray, "Good call, BM. Obama's Deficit Reduction Commission made their pitch today which puts the putt on the ice so to speak. Little O and the Libs will get out early with a proposed agenda that includes stuff like:
Tax hikes (as many hidden as possible) particularly on higher income
Claims their health care plan and a bigger government takeover, will reduce costs
Arguments that we need to dangerously reduce military costs while closing down agencies like the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency for those of you in Mr. Calm)
And last, but not least, putting more businesses under government control and regulation.
Mao, Stalin, Castro, and Chavez would be envious of this plan."
BM came back, "Exactly Lou. That's why I have asked Butch to draft a Hubbard City Cafe 'Proclamation On Cutting Stuff'' to drive economic recovery in these United States. What have you got , Butch?"
"Alright guys our position is basically something like a smaller more restrained federal government, reduced spending, lower taxes, and strong defense. These are the first steps that I will be emailing to DC this afternoon. Let's compare these details with the recommendations of Little O's Commission:
One: FREEZE AND CUT SPENDING: First and foremost, the age of entitlements must end. Rather than allow these programs to bankrupt us on autopilot, Congress should set firm and enforceable budget caps for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Congress must also immediately freeze discretionary budget authority at 2010 levels; and cut at least $200 billion from the federal budget for fiscal year 2012.
Two: REPEAL OBAMACARE: Congress must immediately pass a bill that repeals Obamacare. Until Congress is able to get the President to sign a law repealing Obamacare, it must withhold funding, block key provisions and override regulations carrying out Obamacare. Only after Obamacare is rejected, can Congress undertake a careful, thoughtful legislative process to make practical adjustments that allow the free market to provide affordable, effective health care insurance choices.
Three: STOP THE OBAMA TAX HIKES: Congress must reject the Obama tax hikes, and make permanent the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, thereby helping the economy grow and create more jobs.
Four: PROTECT AMERICA: Congress must pass a budget resolution that won’t put our troops at risk or leave Americans vulnerable. It can do this by providing for defense an average of $720 billion per year (to be adjusted for inflation) for each of the next five fiscal years, in addition to the funding needed for ongoing contingency operations. Congress must make the defense budget as efficient as possible and reinvest dollars achieved from reforms in the military to offset the cost of modernizing and developing next-generation equipment.
Five: GET CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT: Congress must immediately reestablish legislative accountability by posting complete legislation, ending earmarks, reviewing all unauthorized programs and respecting constitutional limits on government. Congress must check executive branch overreach with aggressive oversight, roll back recent government interventions, stop unnecessary administrative regulations and sunset new ones, restrict bureaucrats’ rule making authority and override expansive executive orders."
BM closed, "Hit the send button real hard, Butch, and let the games begin."
Join in folks,
Jim
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Cafe Proud to be Looking to Reagan and the Old Dead White Guys
Remember when they asked Ronald Reagan how the government was going to solve a problem? His answer, "Government doesn't solve problems, government is the problem." Republicans need to tattoo this on their visible body parts because Obama will ask the new congressman over and over how they are going to solve the debt problem.
The election is over and now the folks at the Cafe, being the central headquarters of conservative thought in all of Hubbard City, have to focus on the big question, "Where do we go from here?" It's not like people like Billy Roy Mitchum haven't been thinking about that, "It is critical that we not lose sight of what we are fighting for in this country in the year 2010. There are code words that guys like Obama use to signal his intent. Words like 'progress'. He said today that he thought we could still make 'progress' despite the election. We can still move 'forward', and not go 'back'. These are code words for Progressive Socialists who have committed their lives to gaining power over, and for, an UNLIMITED federal government. Among their circles they worship the concept that in a changing and complex world a government must change and progress as well and should not be limited by the ideas and principles of old white dead guys like Madison, Washington, Adams, Franklyn, and Jefferson."
Butch backed BM with facts as usual, "In only two years Obama, Pelosi, and Reid have enlarged the federal bureaucracy dramatically. They clearly believe if you can't nationalize it yet, then at least regulate it. Progressives for years have moved the details of regulation and implementation of legislation from the legislators to a permanent class of government bureaucrats in agencies like the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and of course, Health and Human Services (HHS). These agencies call their laws 'rules'."
BM took the baton in a full sprint, "This will be the biggest challenge the new Congress will have to face upon their arrival in January. The progressives like to peddle the myth that President Bush deregulated much of the U.S. economy. But this is just plain false. By every objectively measurable metric, the size and scope of the regulatory state grew significantly under Bush, we thought at the time. However, Obama's regulatory regime is currently rising at more than twice the rate that Bush's did. No wonder our nation's job creators can't help us escape near double digit unemployment. Business is being crushed by regulations. Big regulations mean big government means big regulations. It is a death cycle for free capitalism."
Piling on with more facts and figures Butch re-entered the diatribe, "I just read where the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to issue new regulations on emissions for boilers used in facilities like oil refineries, paper mills, and shopping malls. The EPA claims their new regulations will only cost the economy $9.5 billion by 2013. But the American Chemistry Council says the cost will surpass $20 billion and kill 800,000 jobs. Who is right? We don't know. But what we do know is that if you total up all of the new regulations already passed by the Obama administration last year, using their own cost estimates, fiscal 2010 saw the largest increase in regulatory burdens placed on the U.S. economy in the nation's recorded regulatory history."
"And most jobs come from small businesses. According to a report released last month by the Small Business Administration, existing total regulatory costs already amount to about $1.75 trillion (with a T)annually. This 'hidden tax' on the economy is nearly twice as large as the sum of all individual income taxes collected last year. Adding to this burden, federal agencies issued 43 new rules during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010. The total cost of these rules, each one individually calculated by the Obama administration itself, was $28 billion."
"And these guys are just getting started. Obama claims to have saved us from the pirates on Wall Street while lowering health care costs when the truth is the Obama administration is planning to inflict a regulatory tsunami on the U.S. economy during their final two years in office. The 2,319 page financial regulation bill (that saves us from Wall Street) requires 243 new formal rule-makings by 11 different federal agencies. The 2,700 page Obamacare bill (that saves us from Insurance Companies) contains more than 1,000 instances where Congress instructed HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to regulate the health care industry".
"In the name of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Franklyn this is what the tea party of 2010 is about. Regulation is a boring and complex topic, but something that threatens us and our way of life even more than Legislation. We have to dismantle these Czars and agencies and return government to the governed."
It is a clear warning from both Reagan and the Cafe that we the people must GET CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT: Specifically, Congress must immediately reestablish legislative accountability by posting complete legislation, ending earmarks, reviewing all unauthorized programs and respecting constitutional limits on government. Congress must check executive branch overreach with aggressive oversight and investigations, roll back recent government interventions like health care, stop unnecessary administrative regulations and sunset new ones, restrict bureaucrats’ rule making authority and override executive orders. This is a Big Job!
Think about it. Our brilliant founders nailed it. It is pretty simple. We just need to go backwards to go forward.
Jim
The election is over and now the folks at the Cafe, being the central headquarters of conservative thought in all of Hubbard City, have to focus on the big question, "Where do we go from here?" It's not like people like Billy Roy Mitchum haven't been thinking about that, "It is critical that we not lose sight of what we are fighting for in this country in the year 2010. There are code words that guys like Obama use to signal his intent. Words like 'progress'. He said today that he thought we could still make 'progress' despite the election. We can still move 'forward', and not go 'back'. These are code words for Progressive Socialists who have committed their lives to gaining power over, and for, an UNLIMITED federal government. Among their circles they worship the concept that in a changing and complex world a government must change and progress as well and should not be limited by the ideas and principles of old white dead guys like Madison, Washington, Adams, Franklyn, and Jefferson."
Butch backed BM with facts as usual, "In only two years Obama, Pelosi, and Reid have enlarged the federal bureaucracy dramatically. They clearly believe if you can't nationalize it yet, then at least regulate it. Progressives for years have moved the details of regulation and implementation of legislation from the legislators to a permanent class of government bureaucrats in agencies like the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and of course, Health and Human Services (HHS). These agencies call their laws 'rules'."
BM took the baton in a full sprint, "This will be the biggest challenge the new Congress will have to face upon their arrival in January. The progressives like to peddle the myth that President Bush deregulated much of the U.S. economy. But this is just plain false. By every objectively measurable metric, the size and scope of the regulatory state grew significantly under Bush, we thought at the time. However, Obama's regulatory regime is currently rising at more than twice the rate that Bush's did. No wonder our nation's job creators can't help us escape near double digit unemployment. Business is being crushed by regulations. Big regulations mean big government means big regulations. It is a death cycle for free capitalism."
Piling on with more facts and figures Butch re-entered the diatribe, "I just read where the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to issue new regulations on emissions for boilers used in facilities like oil refineries, paper mills, and shopping malls. The EPA claims their new regulations will only cost the economy $9.5 billion by 2013. But the American Chemistry Council says the cost will surpass $20 billion and kill 800,000 jobs. Who is right? We don't know. But what we do know is that if you total up all of the new regulations already passed by the Obama administration last year, using their own cost estimates, fiscal 2010 saw the largest increase in regulatory burdens placed on the U.S. economy in the nation's recorded regulatory history."
"And most jobs come from small businesses. According to a report released last month by the Small Business Administration, existing total regulatory costs already amount to about $1.75 trillion (with a T)annually. This 'hidden tax' on the economy is nearly twice as large as the sum of all individual income taxes collected last year. Adding to this burden, federal agencies issued 43 new rules during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010. The total cost of these rules, each one individually calculated by the Obama administration itself, was $28 billion."
"And these guys are just getting started. Obama claims to have saved us from the pirates on Wall Street while lowering health care costs when the truth is the Obama administration is planning to inflict a regulatory tsunami on the U.S. economy during their final two years in office. The 2,319 page financial regulation bill (that saves us from Wall Street) requires 243 new formal rule-makings by 11 different federal agencies. The 2,700 page Obamacare bill (that saves us from Insurance Companies) contains more than 1,000 instances where Congress instructed HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to regulate the health care industry".
"In the name of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Franklyn this is what the tea party of 2010 is about. Regulation is a boring and complex topic, but something that threatens us and our way of life even more than Legislation. We have to dismantle these Czars and agencies and return government to the governed."
It is a clear warning from both Reagan and the Cafe that we the people must GET CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT: Specifically, Congress must immediately reestablish legislative accountability by posting complete legislation, ending earmarks, reviewing all unauthorized programs and respecting constitutional limits on government. Congress must check executive branch overreach with aggressive oversight and investigations, roll back recent government interventions like health care, stop unnecessary administrative regulations and sunset new ones, restrict bureaucrats’ rule making authority and override executive orders. This is a Big Job!
Think about it. Our brilliant founders nailed it. It is pretty simple. We just need to go backwards to go forward.
Jim
Friday, October 29, 2010
Cafe Warning: Vote and Beware!!
Butch relates a lot with Albert Einstein and quotes him in a plentiful manner on occasion, "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." Butch has an old trick of following such a proclamation with a long silence in hopes that someone will ask him the relevance of such a big statement. Knowing full well by now Butch's routine, the cafe usually 'out-silences' Butch which they did on this particular morning. "So, I hope all you guys vote next week and get your friends, family, and loved ones to do the same."
Scott Riddle, local conservative activist and nephew of Tris Speaker, hall of fame baseballer from Hubbard City (probably the only one at least that we have found so far) decided he should intercept Butch before he went back to Einstein, "Jim Ainsworth is a writer of some local renown all over Texas and even beyond sent me an email quoting P. J. O'Rourke, a man of considerable conservative wisdom, and it reads: Perhaps you're having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican. Take heart. And take the House and the Senate. Some people are concerned about little things like Christine O'Donnell in New Hampshire announcing that she's not a witch. (I ask you, has Hillary Clinton ever cleared this up about herself?)
Simply put, Democrats hate our guts.
They don't just hate our Republican, conservative, libertarian, strict constructionist, family values guts. They hate everybody's guts. And they hate everybody who has any. Democrats hate men, women, blacks, whites, Hispanics, gays, straights, the rich, the poor, and the middle class.
Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats."
Billy Roy Mitchum, staying one step ahead at all times even as he recovers from new surgery on an old back, "This P.J. guy nailed it. I think we all need to vote Tuesday, and then beware. Obama will be blocked from legislative domestic attacks on the country in both the House and the Senate (not having 60 votes in the Senate). So what will he do? He is packing up 40 air planes as we speak to take wife, and even the little girls, to India. They have rented a 560 room hotel for their photo shoot."
"Whats the concern, BM?" asked Aunt Martha, always pressing the boys to stay relevant.
"Obama, blocked on the domestic front, will move to Foreign Affairs, and it will be easy to do. Remember, he always uses a CRISIS as an excuse to pass his Socialist agenda. The next two years he will have plenty of reasons to cry 'crisis'. All the bad guys around the world know they have only two years left with his timid and incompetent regime to cause havoc in the free world. Just this morning the North Koreans took some pot shots at the South Koreans."
Scott Riddle, in a pretty surly mood anyway what with the Rangers down two games to the girls in San Francisco (did you see that pitcher's hair in game one?),"You nailed this one, BM. It is much tougher for a Congress to rein in a President on foreign affairs. Obama will attempt to give away the American store to George Soros and his Socialist and Muslim friends. Halloween starts Sunday and will go at least another two years. Folks should beware!"
Sounds like Tuesday is just the start of the next American Revolution, which will be tougher than the last, with a guy sitting in George Washington's chair who is either incompetent, America's enemy, or both .
Jim
Scott Riddle, local conservative activist and nephew of Tris Speaker, hall of fame baseballer from Hubbard City (probably the only one at least that we have found so far) decided he should intercept Butch before he went back to Einstein, "Jim Ainsworth is a writer of some local renown all over Texas and even beyond sent me an email quoting P. J. O'Rourke, a man of considerable conservative wisdom, and it reads: Perhaps you're having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican. Take heart. And take the House and the Senate. Some people are concerned about little things like Christine O'Donnell in New Hampshire announcing that she's not a witch. (I ask you, has Hillary Clinton ever cleared this up about herself?)
Simply put, Democrats hate our guts.
They don't just hate our Republican, conservative, libertarian, strict constructionist, family values guts. They hate everybody's guts. And they hate everybody who has any. Democrats hate men, women, blacks, whites, Hispanics, gays, straights, the rich, the poor, and the middle class.
Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats."
Billy Roy Mitchum, staying one step ahead at all times even as he recovers from new surgery on an old back, "This P.J. guy nailed it. I think we all need to vote Tuesday, and then beware. Obama will be blocked from legislative domestic attacks on the country in both the House and the Senate (not having 60 votes in the Senate). So what will he do? He is packing up 40 air planes as we speak to take wife, and even the little girls, to India. They have rented a 560 room hotel for their photo shoot."
"Whats the concern, BM?" asked Aunt Martha, always pressing the boys to stay relevant.
"Obama, blocked on the domestic front, will move to Foreign Affairs, and it will be easy to do. Remember, he always uses a CRISIS as an excuse to pass his Socialist agenda. The next two years he will have plenty of reasons to cry 'crisis'. All the bad guys around the world know they have only two years left with his timid and incompetent regime to cause havoc in the free world. Just this morning the North Koreans took some pot shots at the South Koreans."
Scott Riddle, in a pretty surly mood anyway what with the Rangers down two games to the girls in San Francisco (did you see that pitcher's hair in game one?),"You nailed this one, BM. It is much tougher for a Congress to rein in a President on foreign affairs. Obama will attempt to give away the American store to George Soros and his Socialist and Muslim friends. Halloween starts Sunday and will go at least another two years. Folks should beware!"
Sounds like Tuesday is just the start of the next American Revolution, which will be tougher than the last, with a guy sitting in George Washington's chair who is either incompetent, America's enemy, or both .
Jim
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
The Progressive Lapel Pin: One Big Old White Flag
Sweet Lou Tekell watches a lot of TV and is a world class channel flipper, particularly when something happens like Tony Romo getting his collar bone broken. Last night his flipping landed on Fox News, "They had this former Iranian Foreign Minister talking about our mid-term elections of all things. He said that these guys are going to put off their negotiations with Obama about Nuclear weapons until after the elections because they aren't going to agree to anything that the US wants, and they don't want to hurt the Democrats until after November 2. Combine these comments with the news that Iran is providing the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, with literally sacks of cash money (like $2m every two months) for his personal slush fund, and the pentagon leaks of just how much Iran was sending weapons and fighters into Iraq and Afghanistan to kill American soldiers, and you wonder if someone like Obama has any chance of coping with this Ahmadinejad guy."
"I don't wonder, I know Obama can't handle Ahma(whoever)," erupted Butch Jackson, local master of world events and facts of little to no significance. "And when you think that Obama, in all his wisdom, has our people like Patreaus sitting down as we speak with the Taliban and Iranians in Afghanistan briefing them on our strategy in hopes that they will negotiate some agreement that lets Obama pull out of what he called 'the good war' makes you shiver, and I don't shiver very easy at all."
There was some period of silence as the folks pondered on the thought of Butch shivering followed by Billy Roy's entrance into the conversation, him still being at home and on his fancy speaker phone, "I am afraid shivering won't get it when it comes to Iran. If it would Obama would be in good shape. So far, Obama’s policy toward Iran has been to incrementally increase sanctions by building a weak coalition and allow the sanctions to create shifts in Iran’s domestic political situation. Of course everybody that knows anything knows this ain't no strategy at all. With my time off I have researched just what kind of foreign policy platforms these so called Progressives endorse behind the scenes. When you get through reading this and shivering, you'll be lucky not to pee in your pants:
• Declare an end to the Global War On Terror (GWOT)
• Repeal the Authorization to Use Military Force
• Withdraw all of our troops from foreign countries and bring them home immediately
• Close all military bases in foreign countries
• Reduce and limit the size of our armed forces to a level reasonably required to defend our homeland from attack
• Treat terrorism as a law enforcement problem and assign the primary responsibility for solving it to the FBI
• Repeal the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the recently passed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (2008)
• End all domestic spying and wiretapping unless it complies with the Fourth Amendment, the Title III Electronic Surveillance Act, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (2000)
• Abolish the Central Intelligence agency
• Release all prisoners seized as part of the GWOT (Global War on Terror) who are not scheduled to be tried in federal court and release the ones who are acquitted
• Abolish the use of military tribunals
• Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
"So this is the list that Obama has in his pocket, and this is who we have negotiating with Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, N. Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, China, and not to mention negotiating Nuclear Arms treaties with the Russians. It looks to me like Obama does have a flag on his lapel, probably his pajamas only. And it is a big old white one."
Maybe it is to scary to think about his too much unless you have a really strong bladder,
Jim
"I don't wonder, I know Obama can't handle Ahma(whoever)," erupted Butch Jackson, local master of world events and facts of little to no significance. "And when you think that Obama, in all his wisdom, has our people like Patreaus sitting down as we speak with the Taliban and Iranians in Afghanistan briefing them on our strategy in hopes that they will negotiate some agreement that lets Obama pull out of what he called 'the good war' makes you shiver, and I don't shiver very easy at all."
There was some period of silence as the folks pondered on the thought of Butch shivering followed by Billy Roy's entrance into the conversation, him still being at home and on his fancy speaker phone, "I am afraid shivering won't get it when it comes to Iran. If it would Obama would be in good shape. So far, Obama’s policy toward Iran has been to incrementally increase sanctions by building a weak coalition and allow the sanctions to create shifts in Iran’s domestic political situation. Of course everybody that knows anything knows this ain't no strategy at all. With my time off I have researched just what kind of foreign policy platforms these so called Progressives endorse behind the scenes. When you get through reading this and shivering, you'll be lucky not to pee in your pants:
• Declare an end to the Global War On Terror (GWOT)
• Repeal the Authorization to Use Military Force
• Withdraw all of our troops from foreign countries and bring them home immediately
• Close all military bases in foreign countries
• Reduce and limit the size of our armed forces to a level reasonably required to defend our homeland from attack
• Treat terrorism as a law enforcement problem and assign the primary responsibility for solving it to the FBI
• Repeal the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the recently passed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (2008)
• End all domestic spying and wiretapping unless it complies with the Fourth Amendment, the Title III Electronic Surveillance Act, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (2000)
• Abolish the Central Intelligence agency
• Release all prisoners seized as part of the GWOT (Global War on Terror) who are not scheduled to be tried in federal court and release the ones who are acquitted
• Abolish the use of military tribunals
• Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
"So this is the list that Obama has in his pocket, and this is who we have negotiating with Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, N. Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, China, and not to mention negotiating Nuclear Arms treaties with the Russians. It looks to me like Obama does have a flag on his lapel, probably his pajamas only. And it is a big old white one."
Maybe it is to scary to think about his too much unless you have a really strong bladder,
Jim
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