I just read a provocative article by Roger L. Simon on the Pajama’s Media web page titled, “Does Barack Obama Want To Be President?”.  Mr Simon’s approach is that Obama has had such a tough time in his first year in office that he is tired and would rather be somewhere else.  We can see some signs of Obama’s fatigue, and there may be some truth to Simon’s thesis.

I disagree.  I think Obama is there for the long haul.  Even with his lack of experience, lack of understanding, and egregious errors in domestic economics, foreign relations, and national security, Obama is the kind of man who will keep on marching to his particular drummer’s beat.  His ego is like Adolf Hitler’s ego. Barack Obama will imagine victory is within his grasp until the very end, and he may never understand his mistakes.

We are already seeing the first signs of Obama bunker-mania with him blaming everybody in the world for the BP oil spill and lack of Government response in the cleanup.  When the November elections go bad for the Democrats, we will see a huge cloud of dust and a whole flock of de-frocked Democrats bounced out of office.

Obama’s bunkermates will run over each other trying to  get out of the way of the American voters’ wrath.

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In my driving around today I have not seen any flags hanging on houses, nor have I noticed anything on TV about the significance of the day.   My wife has had some chick-flick going for the last couple of hours, and I haven’t watched my TV today, at all. So, did  I miss the coverage of the anniversary of the Normandy Invasion on June 6, 1944?

All the same, I placed my American flag outside to commemorate the occasion, explaining to my dog-walking neighbor what was going on.

I explained that even though my family didn’t have a member on the beach at Normandy that fateful day, my parents did lose a son in that World War.  My brother, whom I never had the privilege of knowing, was on an airplane after Pearl Harbor in the South Pacific in 1942 that was lost somewhere between Honolulu and Christmas Island.

Missing In Action doesn’t sound as bad as Killed In Action, but the results are the same.  You lose a child.

My Dad went to the railway station in Memphis watching returning WWII soldiers for years, convinced that he would see his son disembark from a train after being discovered alive on some lonely Pacific atoll or in a Japanese prison  It took years for my father accept the idea that his first born son was dead.

There was a repeat of this loss during the Korean War when another brother, who had joined the National Guard to avoid the draft, was Killed In Action when his 155mm Howitzer exploded as a shell was loaded in the super hot breech.  The gun crew had been firing the Howitzer for over 24 hours.

We got a body we could not look at, and a Purple Heart.  For a long time, I thought Purple Hearts were only given when a soldier died in the line of duty.

No, we had no family members on a beach at Normandy in 1944, but we understand the sacrifices made by thousands of good, honest, young men who deserved to live productive and happy lives.  It is not fair.

It is worth noting that the sacrifices of these young men saved millions of lives, and released additional millions of people to live free and productive lives. 

Those sacrifices are growing dim with time.  New generations have no clue on what has been paid for their right to vote, worship God as they want, and work at a career of their own choosing.

I hope my flag and family remembrances today give someone a connection to understand the tremendous price paid by our forbearers.

May God Bless America!

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President Obama canceled his Memorial Day speech because of severe thunderstorms and danger from lightening.  Interesting move from our agent of hope and change.

My questions are multitudinous.  What would George Bush have done?  What would Bill Clinton have done?  What would Ronald Reagan have done?  What would Abraham Lincoln have done? What would have George Washington have done?

Indeed!  What would any other President of the United States have done given similar circumstances?  I don’t believe that any of them would have surrendered to the weather.  Real men stand up and make real statements.

But, we have known all along that Barack Obama is not a real man, nor is he a real leader.  There is no honor in the White House.

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Arizona’s passage of an immigration enforcement law has focused the debate of what to do about people entering this country illegally.

Here in Georgia this last week we have learned that a senior at Kennesaw State University has been discovered as not being a citizen of the United States.  Her parents brought her into this country when she was eleven years old, and she has been forced to live a lie ever since.

Jessica Collotl - Illegal Immigrant

Twenty one year old Jessica Colotl is close to graduating from college, belongs to a sorority, and is apparently the kind of person we want to immigrate to this country.  In her life she has demonstrated ambition, drive, and initiative, some of the things we have learned to respect as marks of a worthy individual.  She has also demonstrated an aptitude to lie, forge documents, and otherwise flaunt our laws.

Her parents have apparently been able to raise her with some degree of principle, and they have undoubtedly done their best for their children. The problem is that they haven’t paid their share of her education.

Officials at KSU need to answer some critical questions.  Did they check Ms Colotl’s citizenship claims when accepted to the university? Are there scholarships or government grants involved in paying for her education?

Even though KSU is state supported, that doesn’t mean that education is for free.  Without a doubt, Jessica has gotten her tuition paid by the HOPE Scholarship, funded from the state lottery.  There are citizenship requirements attached to those funds, too.

US Government grants or loans for education are predicated on the recipient being a US citizen.  To get financial aid, Ms. Colotl had to fill out a FAFSA, an invasive form demanding IRS tax return information for several years for all college students and their parents.

The FAFSA has to be completed BEFORE any scholarship, grant, or loan can be awarded.  It is a humiliating process intended to make sure students don’t get any more funding than alloted by some  mysterious formula applied by the US Government.  I had to go through the process for each school year and for each college student in my family.

Obviously, fraud was committed by Ms. Colotl.

What should we do about this?  Here is a young person, brought to this country by her parents, not at her initiative.  She has been living a lie for 10 years, and has broken local, state, and federal laws.

Here is where common sense should prevail.  The girl had no control over her life at age 11, but she has been an adult for three years and understands the consequences of being caught.  She is not stupid.

Compassion is in order, here.  Let Ms Colotl pay for her education in the same magnitude as other international students who are in this country for the LEGAL purpose of getting an education.  The State of Georgia charges double tuition for out of state students, and FOUR TIMES resident rates for international students.

Ms Colotl owes us a lot of money.  Let her pay.

Her parents should be deported.  They are the reason this young person finds herself in a position of living a lie just to get by in life.

Compassion is due to the child, and I don’t agree with visiting punishment on children for the sins of the parents.

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The New York Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, is one of those individuals who if not for bad luck would have no luck at all.

This former  family man, MBA, and repossessed house owner went from first to worst, and subsequently ended up attempting mass murder in a failed terror attack.  This is what you get when you recruit a loser to do your dirty deeds.

Faisal had the American dream going for him.  Unfortunately, he got bit in the butt economically, lost his wife, and found himself at the bottom.

Please don’t mistake me about this.  I don’t feel sorry for the guy, I am just making an observation of his situation.

Islam seems to be adept at recruiting losers.  For a long time, the base of Islam recruits in the USA was in prisons, the home of the really big losers.

Muslim terror recruiters have gotten really smart, and they can recognize a loser before he gets thrown in the clink.  These losers are ripe for some sort of anti-social behavior, and the Muslim terror bosses have it figured out.

Faisal Shahzad should get life in prison with no parole, and his cell mate should be a 300 pound serial killer that can educate little Faisal in what killing is all about.

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ganja, weed, mary jane, hemp, hash

Times are getting tough.  With the national health care bill pointing to the extermination of our senior citizens, and with the constant plunder of our savings by the Obamastan Government, I am basically screwed.

Yep.  The Democrats are out to nationalize our 401K’s, IRA’s, and personal savings so they can buy more illegal alien votes.  From the looks of things they will succeed.

Normally, my non-violent outlet is to have a couple of drinks of fine Tennessee whiskey or cheap Kentucky bourbon.  These days are coming to an end.

Having lost a kidney to cancer almost 4 years ago (no cancer problems, since), my health is being monitored by at least four members of the medical profession, one wife and a bossy daughter ( and countless favorite nieces).  These health Nazi’s will not permit me to indulge in the normal palliative applied to frustrated chaps like myself.

They don’t want me to drink whiskey, that age-old remedy for whatever ails you.  To make matters worse, even the medical people will tell you that alcohol consumption has nothing to do with kidneys. Alcohol just destroys the liver.  They still bitch at me!

Even at that, I would rather have a bottle in front of me than have a frontal lobotomy.

But, wait!  There may be a solution on the horizon.

Medical marijuana!

Yeah, that’s it!  I will just move to California and get a prescription for medical marijuana, and retreat into pothead territory of a complete “I don’t give a shit!” dreamland.

Then again, there is a movement afoot to legalize the weed.  In my opinion that may not be a bad idea, and an argument can be made to legalize all drugs.  Of course, more people would be getting hooked on the hard stuff, but I have always felt like we didn’t need crack-heads in the gene pool, anyway.

Believe it or not, I have never smoked any marijuana, nor have I ever used any illegal drug.  It’s not that I am so smart, I am just a chicken and afraid of being caught.

Until I get my medical marijuana, I will just have to sneak a few bottles of Tennessee’s finest whiskey, Jack Daniels.

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Hat Tip to Hot Air, reason.tv

Yep!  It’s snowing in Atlanta.  It is one of those globby, wet snows that piles up on cars, but melts as soon as it hits the streets.  Yards are getting a covering of white punctuated by yawning black crevasses channeling melt water to storm sewers.

This is not the pretty snow seen in northern climes.  This is sloppy, ugly, wet, pneumonia breeding Southern rebel-yell snow. To add to the local misery, the kids won’t even get out of school.

Bummer!

Last night, I went to the grocery store to pick up a few items for our dinner.  There was hardly any bread on the shelves, and there was no milk at all.  You see, it is a tradition in Atlanta that whenever “SNOW” is mentioned in the local weather forecast, everybody runs to the grocery store and stocks up on milk, bread, and other important items just in case.

Now, hoarding perishable food items is not as irresponsible as you may think.  A couple of times per decade, we get an ICE STORM.

Ice storms are terrible things, and ice storms love pine trees.  Atlanta, Georgia is cursed to be covered in pine trees.  Pine trees are the worst kind of tree you can have.  They are the weeds of the tree family.

If only all those weirdo environmental, tree-hugging idiots knew the real worth of these criminal conifers. The darned things are not even worth burning as firewood, and you can’t kill them fast enough to keep them out of you yard.

Pine trees will fall over in a heavy rain. Put a quarter of an inch of ice on their limbs, and you will have them crashing on power lines all over the Southern United States. Millions of people will be out of power, and heat, for weeks. That’s why we hoard milk and bread.

Beer works pretty good, too.  If only we were shut in for a while, and I could work down this supply of beer I have laid in for the bad times.

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Here are my predictions for 2010.

1. Alabama will win the NCAA Football Championship.  It they don’t, Texas will. A little prescience, here.
2. Tiger Woods will run as a Democrat for the US Senate.  He will get extra points for employing hookers in his campaign.
3. Harry Reid will be caught in bed with Nancy Pelosi.  OOPS!  Maybe that has already happened.
4. Jimmy Carter will write another book, “How An Idiot From South Georgia Can Become President”.
5. Mitt Romney will convert to atheism because a Mormon just can’t be elected to the Presidency.
6. Robert Byrd, US Senator from West Virginia, will be found crawling on his hands and knees looking for his marbles.
7. The New York Yankees will be in the World Series with some other team.
8. Former Illinois Governor Blogojevich will produce pictures of Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, and the Reverend Wright frolicking naked in bed.
9. Joe Biden will have another drink.
10. Record cold temperatures world-wide will be blamed on global warming.

Remember, you heard it here, first.

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I really don’t want this to be one of those silly, impossible to keep lists of hopeless hopes most people make for the New Year.  Making a realistic list of goals is not an easy thing, especially if you have no goals.

There is a way to make those resolutions, and not build in the inevitable failure most do while juicing it up during the holidays.

Here it goes:

• I will get a job this year.  (Honest, honey, I will really try to do this. It may be that I need to go to school another couple of years before I can get one, but, I will not let this keep me from trying, a little.)
• I will lose 50 pounds this year.  This divides out to over 4 pounds a month.  Maybe I am being a little agressive, so I will leave myself an out by keeping the option of adjusting this goal as the year passes.
• I will not pick my nose in front of my grandson. I will wait until his back is turned.
• I will not write more than a hundred three-hundred blogs excoriating President Obama, even if he makes it easy by doing goofy things.
• I will be a better husband. I will be a better husband.  I will be a better husband.
• I will be a nicer dog owner.  I will not yell at the mutt for doing his dirty on the floor.  I reserve the right to spontaneously cancel this resolution.

There, now.  That wasn’t so hard.  The secret is to leave yourself an out, and not get serious about this stuff.

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Nobody tells me what to call a dirty, low down, no good son of a ...

It’s gotten to the point where you can’t say anything without somebody accusing you of insulting, disrespecting, or downright threatening the target of one’s verbal abuse.

Witness the following, time honored verbal master pieces that liberal weenies are trying to make illegal.

Somebody needs to shoot that jerk.
He needs killing!
We ought to hang the bastard.
He ought to be drawn and quartered.
They ought to fry him.
We ought to hang him by the toe nails.
We ought to put him on government health care.
I will squash you like a bug.

So, what has happened to these popular emotional outlets of genuine American disdain for rascals, rapists, serial killers, thieves, and Congressmen?

The bed-wetters in our society have invented a new term for such niceties, and it is called, “hate speech”.

Of course this is hate speech.  You see, I hate rascals, rapists, serial killers, and Congressmen, too.  I am an equal opportunity hater, and I resent bleeding heart liberals trying to take away my right to wish bad things on bad people.  There is nothing inherently wrong in telling someone that you wish them to die, early.

Like it or not, “hate speech” is protected speech.  Why is it suddenly wrong to call someone a name?  Why is it unacceptable to wish a Congressman or Congresswoman an early death.  You can torture the words to mean a threat, but, this is utter nonsense.  As a matter of fact, threatening someone is a far cry from committing murder.  Where have we come in our sensibilities?

In the last few years it was OK to wish death on President George W Bush.  If you wish Barack Obama as much as a hangnail, some idiot will call the FBI to have you investigated.  These are the empty-headed weenies who are making up laws against hate speech.  Hate speech is bad to them if it is about a liberal, incompetent President.

To all the bed-wetters and liberals out there:  I hope you die a thousand deaths with the fleas of a million mangy hounds up your keesters, and may your wives dispossess you of your houses so their homeless lovers can move in.

Long live hate speech!

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